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In other words, the personal background of students, their health and psychological wellbeing, as well as their cognitive strengths and challenges, describe who they are as learners. In a recent survey commissioned by Digital Promise Global’s Learner Variability Project (LVP), “Learning in the 21st Century,” findings show that approximately eight in 10 adults agree that learner variability exists. The burgeoning field of learning sciences research supports this impression.  \nIn order to meet the diverse needs of each learner, LVP curates current research into a whole-child framework of evidence-based factors and strategies to disseminate through its freely accessible  \nTHE POWER OF EDTECH  \nMAY BE IN THE WAY  \nTHAT TECHNOLOGY CAN  \nBE USED TO TAILOR LEARNING ENVIRONMENTSAND INSTRUCTION.  \nweb app, the Learner Variability Navigator. Further, LVP partners with educational technology (edtech) creators to help use this research to infuse their products with supports for each learner’s needs.  \nThese supports, or strategies, can help tailor instruction when applied in edtech. Though edtech is widely available, there is limited evidence on the general impact that technology has on improving learning outcomes for students. One analysis reviewing impact studies of edtech (Escueta et al., 2017) found little causal evidence of improved learning outcomes when looking at the impact of the general use of edtech. There was, however, evidence for the benefits of adaptive learning systems, that is, edtech tailored towards learners’individual needs.  \nThus, simply providing technology may not be sufficient to improve learning; rather, the power of edtech may be in the way that technology can be used to tailor learning environments and instruction.  \nDesigning for Learner Variability | 3  \nLVP Partners with ReadWorks  \nIn 2017, LVP launched a partnership with the nonprofit literacy organization ReadWorks, whose mission is to bridge the gap between research and practice in reading comprehension instruction (Tare, Nobles, & Xiao, 2018)  .  \nOn its digital platform, ReadWorks provides free resources to K-12 teachers, including a library of curated nonfiction and literary articles, reading comprehension and vocabulary curricular supports, assessments, and teacher resources  . ReadWorks has a wide network, with 88 percent of all  \nK-8 public and charter schools in the U  . S  . having a teacher who has used ReadWorks in the 2018-2019 school year, potentially reaching over 15 million students (as of July 2019, per ReadWorks)  . As such, partnering with ReadWorks has the potential to impact a vast number of students  .  \nThe LVP-ReadWorks partnership began with an assessment of the ReadWorks digital platform, with the goal of further applying learning sciences research (curated into LVP factors and strategies) relevant to reading comprehension in elementary school  . Teachers can assign articles to students in their classes to be read on the ReadWorks digital platform  . 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