ERDI provides Education Leaders and Solution Providers with a unique R&D experience, geared to exploring, analyzing and discussing the solutions to current education problems. Top District Leaders from more than 250 districts from across the United States gather to offer expert insights and feedback to inform and influence education product and service design.
ERDI convenes 2 Institutes each year. The Institutes are structured to:
The core element of our Institute is the ERDI Research and Development Panel. Each participating Solution Provider conducts its confidential, 2-hour research & development panel with 5 distinguished Education Leaders to gain candid and frank insights and feedback about its products and services.
ERDI does not:
ERDI convenes 2 Institutes each year. The Institutes are structured to:
- Give Education Leaders the opportunity to influence the development, refinement and delivery of the products and services entering the PK-12 education space.
- Provide professional development and growth experiences.
- Distribute information on the latest developments in educational theory, practice, management, and technology.
- Address current problems of practice in education.
- Share views and concerns on the development of educational supports for teachers, and to address unmet needs of our schools.
The core element of our Institute is the ERDI Research and Development Panel. Each participating Solution Provider conducts its confidential, 2-hour research & development panel with 5 distinguished Education Leaders to gain candid and frank insights and feedback about its products and services.
ERDI does not:
- Publish, manufacture or provide educational materials or services.
- Promote organizations that participate in ERDI Institutes.
- Expect Education Leaders to purchase products, goods, or services from any participating organization.
- Enter into contracts with school districts. It receives no compensation from school districts, and protects school districts from inequitable commercial influences by prohibiting designers, developers and related organizations from excluding others seeking to attend any Institute function.
- Advocate for any vendor of a product or service.
- Act as agent for any vendor of a school district.
- Negotiate agreements between school districts and vendors.
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