Digital Promise

JANUARY 16, 2020

HP Teaching Fellows also receive opportunities for networking, presenting, and sharing thought leadership at national conferences and through virtual events. Sasha Behm, grades 6-8 Computer Science and Yoga teacher at Broward County Public Schools, Florida. Katie Felix, kindergarten teacher at Tacoma Public Schools, Washington.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Please join us in welcoming the following new districts to the League of Innovative Schools: ASU Preparatory Academies. Brigantine Public School District. California Area School District. Clear Creek Independent School District. Cleveland City Schools. Columbus Municipal School District.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 3, 2023

Schools can’t afford to lose teachers of color. And with public schools struggling to fill teacher vacancies with qualified educators, district and school leaders can’t afford to lose any more teachers,period. Related: OPINION: Black male teachers were my father figures. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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Edthena

MAY 13, 2022

Hartford Public Schools, a Connecticut district with 39 schools, uses district-wide video coaching aligned to their larger instructional vision. Using Edthena, Hartford Public Schools captured 116 teaching videos in under a year, each tied to a specific aspect of the district’s instructional vision. .

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ED Surge

JULY 31, 2023

Upskill Leadership Tara Carrozza , director of the Digital Learning Initiative (DLI) for New York City Public Schools, highlighted the importance of upskilling leadership to match the pace of technological advancements. The ongoing monitoring of student outcomes ensures the effectiveness of these initiatives.

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Digital Promise

JULY 10, 2017

Leaders from the League of Innovative Schools, a network of the country’s most forward-thinking educators, recently convened in Mentor, Ohio, for the League’s Spring 2017 meeting hosted by Mentor Public Schools. The post Addressing Challenges in Equity, Leadership, and Innovation appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Snapshots include Covina Valley School District in Covina, CA, where the CISCO Networking Academies allow high school students to study the latest networking, security, and cloud technologies. At Liberty 53 Public Schools in Liberty, Missouri, the “UnSchool Challenge” offers students personalized internship opportunities.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District. Graham Local Schools. Harrington Park School District. Meriden Public Schools. Middletown City School District. Socorro Independent School District. South Bay Union School District. Southampton County Public Schools.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

JANUARY 3, 2025

I detail it all in this blog post , but heres the gist. I include our states and leadership members of Congress, Cabinet members, and the nine Supreme Court Justices. First, we do a short deep dive into the details of how the First Amendment applies within the walls of public schools.

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Edthena

MARCH 29, 2022

The School District of Lee County takes professional learning seriously. With 84,000 students and nearly 100 public schools and 6,000 teachers, the district is supporting many learners. To support the many first- and second-year teachers in Lee County, teacher leadership is developed. 2021, Asst.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Minneapolis Public Schools (Minnesota) already uses data to inform decision-making in more than 70 schools across the city, but they wanted to find best practices for interoperability to link different systems together for more accurate and timely data. Abby Wolf IT Strategy Process Analyst, Minneapolis Public Schools.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 28, 2025

Ellen Tucker, long time blog contributor for Teaching American History [1] But not as proactive as some. But two years after the decision, more than 350 school districts in nine of the 17 states had desegregated their public schools. Schools in the nations capital were also opened to all (Reprint of New South [Vol.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 23, 2021

Read blogs on other roundtables hosted by Digital Promise, SETDA, and CoSN: SETDA: Equity of Access. Leigh Bozard, Director of Special Projects, SELF (Special Education Leadership Fellowship). Joel Coleman, Superintendent, Utah School for the Deaf and Blind. Matt Miller, Superintendent, Lakota Public Schools, Ohio.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 25, 2021

Brizard succeeds Karen Cator in the role and will assume day-to-day leadership of Digital Promise while also joining its board of directors. Previously, he served as chief executive of Chicago Public Schools and superintendent of schools for the Rochester City School District in New York.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Courtesy Mark Ray Mark Ray is the Chief Digital Officer for Vancouver Public Schools. I posed that question in my recent TEDx talk during the 2016 Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools meeting in San Diego. Do you see librarians as part of the future? In my district , across the League, and across the U.S.,

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Digital Promise

MARCH 21, 2022

Prior to joining Digital Promise, Gupta served as Vice President of the Chicago Public Education Fund (The Fund), where she drove the organization’s strategic programming and initiatives and directly oversaw its external engagement, operations, and talent management work.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 9, 2015

After last week’s veto of school funding by Governor Terry Branstad, I’m really happy that I’m not the one that has to stand in front of educators over the next few months and defend that decision. I blogged in March that it was really tough to feel positive about education politics in Iowa this year and I was proven right.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 15, 2023

During the 2019-20 school year, in response to racial unrest and protests around the United States, Black students and alumni across the country shared about their negative experiences in majority-white elite institutions on “Black at” Instagram pages. In July 2022, I became the principal of my high school. What makes me happy?

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS) has prioritized a culture of technology-enriched student learning through its Students and Teachers Advancing Tomorrow Initiative (S.T.A.T.). BCPS leadership thought educators would be better prepared to apply S.T.A.T. The central mission of S.T.A.T. Burke said. “We

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

“Voice, agency, and influence are ours to give and receive,” says Debora Collins, assistant superintendent for student learning at Albemarle County Public Schools in Virginia. Matthew Wheelock Innovation Program Director, University of Virginia Curry School of Education.

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Digital Promise

MAY 30, 2019

Now, we are pleased to present the first HP Spotlight School, William F. Halloran School No. 22 in Elizabeth Public Schools, New Jersey. HP Spotlight Schools Exemplify Powerful Learning. A Closer Look at Our 2019 HP Spotlight School. District leadership nominated William F. Halloran School No.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 29, 2016

Baltimore County Public Schools. Baltimore County Public Schools has plans to launch a Mobile Innovation Lab, opening access to maker learning opportunities to over 100,000 students in 174 schools districtwide. Empower teachers through professional development and leadership opportunities.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Through the generous support of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the National Public Education Fund, nine League districts traveled to Toronto: Cajon Valley Union School District. Compton Unified School District. The School Board of Broward County, Florida. Highline Public Schools.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 22, 2016

Every year, The School Superintendents’ Association (AASA) awards the title "Superintendent of the Year" to exceptional leaders who work to identify and implement these solutions so students can succeed through leadership for learning, communication, professionalism, and community involvement. There is no silver bullet.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 9, 2016

Many more public school districts are rethinking how students learn and how teachers teach. No longer is “innovation” reserved for a select few charter and private schools. Yes, we still hear from the media about public schools’ alleged failures to effectively use electronic devices. million students.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2017

Leadership Competencies for Engaged Learners. Maker Learning and School Leadership. The future sustainability of maker learning programs in K-12 depends on administrators getting involved and making systemic changes to schools. What’s Innovative in K-12 Public Schools?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2017

If public schools are to advance the future interests of all Americans, then it must be considered a civic imperative to engage our students with a far wider diversity of other backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. The post OPINION: Why diversity in schools is critical to our democracy appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The Milwaukee Master Teacher Partnership is a partnership between the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Milwaukee Public Schools, funded by the National Science Foundation. It is dedicated to improving student achievement, classroom practice, and teacher leadership within Milwaukee Public Schools.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2017

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. There are currently 10 teams (33 total teachers) representing all six of our district’s schools. You can view our evolving implementation timeline here.)

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

In 2012-13, black students accounted for more than 90 percent of enrollment at over a quarter of the schools in Mississippi, according to federal and state school district data compiled by Jake McGraw, public policy coordinator at the Mississippi-based William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation and editor of the blog Rethink Mississippi.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 30, 2017

This is a story from the Learning Studio at Leadership Public Schools, Hayward in Hayward, California. Three high school juniors are bringing their vision to reality in the Learning Studio at Leadership Public Schools, Hayward (LPS Hayward).

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 8, 2019

Still, huge gaps exist in educational outcomes, high school graduation rates, college readiness and workforce advancements based on race, class, and geography. Technology, and especially the internet and mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones, has become ubiquitous in our daily lives and affordable even to our public schools.

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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. Both districts are founding members of the League, and have long demonstrated their commitment to improve achievement and access for students.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2017

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. This Framework will provide resources and tools for school and district leaders to develop and integrate maker learning at their schools.

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Digital Promise

JULY 18, 2017

This is a story from the Learning Studio at Leadership Public Schools, Hayward in Hayward, California. Three high school juniors are bringing their vision to reality in the Learning Studio at Leadership Public Schools, Hayward (LPS Hayward).

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Maitri Learning

JANUARY 18, 2022

Several years ago, I worked with NCMPS , Libertas School of Memphis , and a team of brilliant people to launch a new, radical approach to Montessori Teacher Education. We partnered with Libertas School of Memphis to run a pilot Teacher Residency program.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Amid another wave of covid infections, similar sentiments have reemerged in news articles, blog posts, and comment sections. Teachers could, and should, be included in these types of decisions in dialogue with lawmakers and school stakeholders.

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