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Most School Districts Still Lack Data-Privacy Personnel

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Only a few years ago, before the pandemic, finding a school district with a dedicated leadership position focused on data privacy was like spotting a “unicorn”—something so rare it was practically mythical. That was a signal from the highest levels of leadership saying that this is important, Corns says.

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Partnering Literacy and Technology to Improve One School

Digital Promise

Thanks to the generous support of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Digital Promise and RCSD’s McKinley Institute of Technology (MIT) have been working on a one-to-one Literacy Initiative to support powerful use of technology for learning and address the second level digital divide. About the Literacy Initiative.

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The Idea of a Teacher Salary Minimum Is Gaining Steam in Congress. Where Has This Worked?

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Maryland Maps a Way Forward Some years back, before the start of the pandemic, Maryland state legislators were thinking about how to improve their education system, hoping to transform it into one of the best in the world.

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Nonprofit News Literacy Project Welcomes Former Educator as CEO, With Plans to Expand

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Fourteen years after its founding and with a misinformation landscape many magnitudes more dire than anyone could’ve predicted, the News Literacy Project will herald in a new CEO this summer, marking a transition in leadership but not a change in direction for the education-focused nonprofit. 6, 2021, chief among them.

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Scaling Innovation: A System’s Approach to Transforming Teaching & Learning

Digital Promise

Our journey began in the Fall of 2015 with the convening of a Future Ready Leadership Team representing a cross-section of school and district leaders. The team’s primary goal was to develop a shared vision for deeper learning through innovative uses of digital technologies. You can view our evolving implementation timeline here.)

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#EdClusters16 Post-Convening Summary

Digital Promise

On September 21-23, 2016, Digital Promise and the U.S. Department of Education hosted the 2016 Education Innovation Clusters Convening (#EdClusters16) in Providence, R.I., Sean Duffy (@dearmrduffy) September 23, 2016. rdaley0001 (@rdaley98) September 22, 2016. Joseph South (@southjoseph) September 22, 2016.

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The Most Important Lesson I’ve Learned as a Trauma Psychotherapist Turned School Counselor

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In 2016, I accepted a position as an early childhood counselor, working with a diverse group of children from nursery school through second grade. Just as I was beginning to get settled into this new role of leadership, COVID-19 arrived in the spring of 2020 and completely changed the way we functioned as educators.