Digital Promise

MARCH 29, 2022

The Kentucky Valley Education Cooperative (KVEC) provides free, competency-based flexible, professional learning opportunities for rural K-12 educators via micro-credentials. Funding is being used to develop a digital badging and pathway system that will interface with the K-12 digital badging and pathways system.

K-12 156

K-12 Professional Development Economics Learning Science 156

Digital Promise

MAY 20, 2021

These partners were selected as part of our landscape research on how micro-credentials may be used to promote economic recovery among rural learners impacted by poverty, particularly for Black, Latinx, and Indigenous communities. Industry : Nonprofit Education Service Agency; K-12 Educator Professional Development.

K-12 152

K-12 Pedagogy Learning Science Professional Development 152

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

COVID-19 has laid bare a long-standing challenge to America’s economic landscape: an underpaid, underappreciated, and underprepared workforce that has recently faced the harshest of economic blows. Individual anxiety may have also swelled over time, weighing heavily on their current ability to learn.

EdTech 152

EdTech K-12 Economics Professional Development 152

Digital Promise

APRIL 15, 2021

Mathematics achievement is a national challenge, with persistent inequities across K-12 student subpopulations. As a foundation for all STEM disciplines, low math proficiency limits access to economic opportunity, and the failures of the current K-12 education system disproportionately impact students of color.

Middle School 118

Middle School K-12 Professional Development Economics 118

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 2, 2019

While there has been considerable focus on developing K-12 computational thinking pathways in major U.S. Floyd County and Pikeville educators participated in a series of South Fayette School District classroom visits to observe students work and learn more about computing pathways.

K-12 127

K-12 Middle School Elementary School Social Studies 127