Digital Promise

JUNE 5, 2019

In accordance with this model, participating middle school science teachers designed phenomena-based lessons where students, rather than the teacher, came up with questions to pursue. Please stay tuned for future blog posts that will feature teachers and district leaders sharing their experiences and takeaways from this project.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

It’s not every day that a top executive from a Fortune 500 company visits a middle school located more than 600 miles from the company’s headquarters. Coles also noted how the lab is bringing out leadership in students, and that skills learned in the lab have translated into other subjects. “I

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 28, 2025

The facilities at Reid were no longer needed, they said, since Belmont had increased its classroom capacity in 1964 by opening a new high school and converting the old high school into a new middle school. Ellen Tucker, long time blog contributor for Teaching American History [1] But not as proactive as some.

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Digital Promise

MAY 18, 2021

We have continued to offer our college and career readiness initiative, The Saturday Leadership Program , in a virtual setting in which we expose scholars to different college environments. In fall 2020, MindCatcher launched Collective Support , an affinity-based leadership and wellness cohort.

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Leadership Professional Development Middle School Humanities 139

Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Districts are also fostering student leadership and elevating student voices in more meaningful ways. Similarly, during the 2019-2020 school year, San Antonio Union School District (California) created the first-ever student board member position. Potential for impacting student learning and educational leadership.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Entrepreneurship is more than a business word according to Jeremiah, a 16-year-old high school student from Long Beach, CA, it’s a way of processing the world around you and feeling empowered to do something about it. After school, Jeremiah learns as much as possible on how to create, manage, and share positive messages to his community.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 17, 2019

Using available micro-credentials from Digital Promise, each educator can create a personalized professional development plan that builds on the expertise they feel they most need in the classroom and in our schools. This school year, it merged with the middle school to serve more than 1,000 students in grades 7–12.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 4, 2022

When Renee Dawson, the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools coach at Crawford W. Long Middle School in Atlanta, met John*, an eighth grader with learning and speech disabilities, they bonded immediately. Student tech teams are an integral part of the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools initiative.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 30, 2015

Peek Into a STEM Classroom: Hoover High School. Pleasant Middle School. instead of being openly accessible via a blog, web site, wiki, etc. STEM, Teacher Leadership, MTSS) together in better ways? STEM in Iowa’s Re-Envisioned Economic Development Roadmap (2014 Battelle Report) , Kathryn Kunert & Carrie Rankin.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2017

This panel brings together the leaders of the Verizon Innovative Learning School (VILS) program to discuss how they have successfully leveraged the 1:1 model in conjunction with student data plans for low-income middle schools. Leadership Competencies for Engaged Learners. Maker Learning and School Leadership.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The school visit demonstrated how they integrate culturally relevant pedagogy, differentiated instruction, and varied assessments to highlight Black brilliance in mathematics. Bessborough Drive Elementary and Middle School is a dynamic neighborhood school that uses technology predominately to redefine learning.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 2, 2017

The program began in March 2016 at MIT, a comprehensive middle school with 6th, 7th and 8th grades. The 2016-2017 school year began with 100 percent parent participation in an orientation training to support parent understanding of the one-to-one Literacy Initiative. About the Literacy Initiative.

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Professional Development Leadership Critical Thinking Middle School 91

Digital Promise

MAY 24, 2016

We’ve even created a blueprint for schools to help them successfully navigate this journey. Undertaking this transformation is a challenge, and requires buy-in and commitment from district leadership, school administrators, and teachers in order to be successful. We brought in educators from two VILS sites in Vista, Calif.,

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2017

Most recently, City Council member Ritchie Torres introduced a bill to create an Office of School Diversity, and the NYCDOE has proposed rezoning on the Upper West Side to address segregation. The post OPINION: Why diversity in schools is critical to our democracy appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Civics Middle School Leadership Public School 76

Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

“I think everybody was really proud and excited about getting these (iPads) because you can use it for education, and you also get to take it home,” said Jacob, an eighth grader at Mansfeld Magnet Middle School. All three Cohort 6 schools held a rollout celebration on Sept. It’s really a privilege.”.

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Elementary School Middle School Leadership Education 72

Digital Promise

AUGUST 13, 2018

The moment a teacher opens the door to their classroom at the beginning of a new school year, if they understand learner variability, they will see a design challenge, not a student challenge. Micro-credentials for Leadership and Learning. The film shows how, after coaching, one teacher taps the research to turn her class around.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2017

Our video series began in Sitka, Alaska , where we saw maker learning happening across all schools in the district with support from all members of the community. In Greenville, South Carolina, we followed a middle school library club as they worked together to design a solution to issues they identified in their community.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

MARCH 3, 2024

To create a program that is more than poster-making and pep assembly planning, check out this post where I lay out my three-part framework for creating a service leadership-centered program. For my full list of tips, check out this blog post: 9 Things Great Student Council Advisors Do. What activities does a student council plan?

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High School Leadership Tradition Middle School 52

Digital Promise

APRIL 19, 2017

Teachers at Edmunds Middle School in Burlington, Vermont, recently participated in a professional development session focused on innovative approaches to problem solving. Several students who don’t typically take a leadership role stepped up in their groups and took ownership of what they’d created.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Members of the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools serve as examples of how forward-thinking leadership can transform learning. We are grateful for your leadership. The district also offers virtual classes in subjects like computer science and Mandarin Chinese, in the absence of local certified educators.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

The following three sections detail the range of best practices found by researchers to be critical for ensuring educator growth and success: Effective Administrator and Teacher Leadership. Effective Administrator and Teacher Leadership. Cultivating leadership in staff, parents, and community partners.

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Dr. Shannon Doak

JUNE 7, 2019

These include slide presentations, graphic organizers, infographics, ebooks, video presentations, websites, whiteboard app creations, graphic novels, blog posts, ePortfolios, podcasts, coded applications, digital art, video games, and VR world creations. In our lower school, our classrooms are 1:1 iPads.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 4, 2016

It’s the perpetual curiosity that sent man to the moon and rovers to Mars , or the altruism that convinces a student to design and print a prosthetic limb for her classmate, or the ingenuity that compels students to develop products from their middle school. Inventors, innovators, and makers have gotten America to where we are.

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Professional Development Pedagogy Middle School Education 87

Digital Promise

JULY 22, 2020

“During school closures, I did quite a bit to coach parents and families on the responsible use of devices and the ways that the technology and access can be leveraged to support student learning,” said Jillian Wetzel, the former Verizon Innovative Learning Schools coach at Harris Middle School in San Antonio, Texas. “I

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