Using Technology to Evaluate Impact Interactions between staff, professional development activities, and elements of the curriculum all leave artifacts on a digital network. Interactions can be analyzed by the number of participants, frequency of interactions, composition of groups, and focus of discussion. Curriculum can be judged for quality and alignment with standards, and compared to student achievement data. Teachers can further benefit from networked technologies by utilizing templates for notebooks, journals, and lesson plans—all of which can be captured in a standard form for ease of analysis by evaluators. One proven method of positively impacting student achievement is the process of "curriculum alignment," in which entire school districts carefully coordinate classroom activities and corresponding assessments with instructional standards. Curriculum alignment requires wide-scale buy-in from all levels of instructional staff and administration and creates a great deal of data that must be analyzed. This herculean task often falls on the building administrator, who must monitor what is being taught in the classroom, student assessments and their resulting data, instructional standards, and professional development efforts. Networked technologies hold great potential to help administrators who must analyze and respond to the data created during curriculum alignment and teachers who must create the lesson plans, activities, and assessments that become this data. Online data warehouses store information as it is generated, revised, and utilized along the entire process. Online tools can also support data analysis and provide summary reports that impact classroom practice, the validation of assessments, and teacher training efforts. Curriculum Creator AEL, one of the nation's 10 regional educational laboratories, has expertise in helping school districts align curriculum, instruction, and assessment with state standards. To support this work AEL developed the Curriculum Creator. This Web-based tool works at the classroom level to help teachers create and store activities and units that can be accessed individually or combined in a "map." Teachers' maps can be combined to give a schoolwide picture of how standards are being addressed within and across grade levels. Administrators and curriculum directors can use maps to help teachers improve their practice, to identify gaps in teaching, and to demonstrate to policymakers and stakeholders that children have opportunities to learn. For more information about the Curriculum Creator, visit the AEL Web site.