Digital Promise

APRIL 23, 2019

In our current education system, we continue to see gaps in graduation rates and unequal access to high-quality public schools. Explore the Edtech Marketplace Today blog series to hear other voices from the field share important perspectives on challenges and strategies to improve the edtech market.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 9, 2023

Kermit Belcher School districts like Kansas City Public Schools, for example, are providing cellular-enabled iPads as an alternative to their traditional Wi-Fi-only model. Providing connected devices for students removes barriers and supports the extended school day needs for our most vulnerable families.”

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

Should local communities determine how education gets funded and who has access to public schools —or should the federal government intervene? And for the general public, the group wrote up summaries of its first-semester courses and made them available for free. “I DAOs have popped up with various goals and functions.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 14, 2019

Please join us in welcoming the new 2019-2020 cohort of the League of Innovative Schools! Chesapeake Public Schools. Hampton Township School District. Lake Washington School District. Lynwood Unified School District. Menlo Park City School District. Orange Unified School District.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

This blog post is the second of a two-part series discussing relationship building in the edtech purchasing process. In our first blog post , we addressed how educators can build and maintain good working relationships with edtech developers. Public schools by their nature share data publicly.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Gay is the purchasing manager at Baltimore County Public Schools , a member of the League of Innovative Schools. This blog post is part of a series that highlight different stakeholders' perspectives on purchasing practices for K-12 personalized learning tools.

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Digital Promise

MAY 4, 2021

Low science and math proficiency in Nevada’s public school system indicates there are inherent and structural inequities that exist. As a researcher and innovation leader, I wanted to explore the “why” behind the low proficiency rates. Over time, students who practice design thinking improve their STEM performance.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2021

Here is a non-exhaustive list of some of these shifts in coaching and how they have contributed to cultures of continuous growth and changes in how the instructional technology coaching role is perceived: The shift to distance learning has removed many logistical and scheduling challenges coaches previously faced in a traditional school day.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2020

The country is spending the equivalent of $278 million on interventions, a significant chunk of it on tutoring, according to a blog post by Robert Slavin, who oversees Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Research and Reform in Education. Such an investment, Slavin wrote in his blog post, would be “a good start.”

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

When a Hammocks Middle School seventh grader was selected as the winner of the Miami-Dade County Public Schools Superintendent’s Holiday Card Award in December, it was hard to believe her artwork, “ Holidays by the Beach ,” was created on an iPad. Hammocks MS student’s award-winning holiday card.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has frequently praised the state as a model of “school choice” with a taxpayer-funded voucher program for students to attend private school and many charter school options. The NAEP scores showed stellar gains within the traditional public school system.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 22, 2016

This work brings us closer and closer to recognizing student achievement through demonstrated competencies rather than more traditional methods of assessment.” Pam Moran of Albemarle Public Schools in Charlottesvile, Va., Students benefit long-term from real-world learning experiences. There is no silver bullet.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

“Students and families stayed in their cars with mandated masks as they pulled up to the front entrance,” said Chelsea Haynes, the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools coach at Newburg Middle School in Louisville, Kentucky, which began its third year as part of the program. “We

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2017

About a decade ago, leaders in this public school district nearly 70 miles northwest of New York City decided to radically change the way they provide education to its diverse and academically challenged student body. It can look a little different in every school, in every classroom and for each student.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

They are careful to clarify that these forecasts are not meant to be read as “predictions,” but rather “insights about the wide range of possibilities for what might happen in the future,” as Jason Swanson wrote at the end of 2015 , kicking off a blog series looking back at how much of their first forecast became a reality.

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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 31, 2017

While the highlights of each of these visits are vast, below are five amazing schools we visited in League districts that are educating students in creative, forward-thinking ways. Mentor Public Schools – Mentor, OH. Mentor Public Schools has a school dedicated to serving students with autism.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

One school district stands out as a model of implementation: Loudoun County (VA) Public Schools (LCPS). Since 2005, LCPS had participated in the Geospatial Semester program through James Madison University, which taught GIS to hundreds of high school seniors (and even juniors) through a project-based approach.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 10, 2016

After many weeks away from their traditional school schedule, students across the country are starting to re-enter their classrooms and share stories of their summer vacations. Creating enrichment opportunities at the school-level. Students were also exposed to careers through company tours and guest lecturers from the field.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 30, 2017

The alignment of LUSD’s framework and state assessments has allowed LUSD’s system to be compared with traditional systems and to be responsive to local education requirements. LUSD demonstrates that transformation can happen in a traditional public school system. Leveraging Technology to Empower.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

A looming question is whether personalized learning that works in, say, a tight-knit, mission-driven charter school can be reliably translated into traditional district schools with many more students, less flexible schedules, keener standardized-test worries and cultures steeped in established ways of teaching and learning.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 11, 2019

In a @RemakeLearning Community panel with @SunannaC , we’re hearing from @1hood ’s Taliya Allen, Tylor Hart and Asia Mason from @PPSnews , Urban Academy’s @KChasePatterson , and @ELIECircle ’s Debralyn Woodberry-Shaw about the network’s progress and plans for the future.

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Digital Promise

JULY 12, 2018

Challenge: Social-Emotional Learning | Solution: #BetheKindKid at Avonworth Public Schools. JAM Enterprises – which stands for Julia, Amelia, and Maureen – is a collaboration at Avonworth Public Schools of two first-grade students and their teacher for “girls who make and girls who care.”

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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 14, 2016

Mark Ray , Chief Digital Officer of Vancouver Public Schools , spoke of transforming the role of librarians in his district to support students in becoming “future ready.” Full Circle Images. Setting an inclusive vision that puts teachers and students first.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Today, we’re thrilled to congratulate Matt Akin, Superintendent of Piedmont City School District , and Steve Webb and Tom Hagley, Superintendent and Chief of Staff of Vancouver Public Schools , for being named to Education Week’s list of “Leaders to Learn From” in 2016. In Vancouver, Wash.,

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Maitri Learning

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The manualized approach to professional education is not meant to replace the traditional approach. So, we can apply this where it fits, like in public Montessori programs. But, it does not meet the needs of all students, particularly those with dyslexia or who are entering public school following a summer-based preparation program.

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MPSA

MARCH 30, 2022

We were also advised that school districts’ legal councils would not approve any project in which students provide their own transportation to a school-sponsored event, due to fear of lawsuits. As with the civic engagement curriculum, the new lessons in informed voting did not replace the more-traditional material in the course.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2018

LeBron James speaks at the opening ceremony for the I Promise School in Akron, Ohio, Monday, July 30, 2018. The I Promise School is supported by the The LeBron James Family Foundation and is run by the Akron Public Schools. Capdau School, under Louisiana’s Recovery School District legislation.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Secretary of Education nominee Betsy DeVos and her potential impact on traditional schools. We know that President-elect Donald Trump favors school choice, which could mean an expansion of taxpayer-funded vouchers and other alternatives to traditional public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2017

President Trump’s nomination of Betsy DeVos — a Michigan philanthropist and school choice advocate — for Secretary of Education is thrusting Michigan education into the national education debate. Third claim: All of Michigan’s charter schools are run by for-profit entities and perform worse than traditional public schools.

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