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. In the heart of rural Appalachia, teachers may be required to travel 3-6 hours to reach in-person professional development opportunities.

K-12 130

K-12 Professional Development Economics Learning Science 130

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.

EdTech 128

EdTech K-12 Economics Professional Development 128

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. The five selected partners are: Developing educator-industry partnerships. Region(s) : Statewide.

K-12 132

K-12 Pedagogy Learning Science Professional Development 132

Digital Promise

APRIL 15, 2021

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. Proficiency rates for Black and Latino students and students experiencing poverty are considerably below the national average.

Middle School 112

Middle School K-12 Professional Development Economics 112

ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Mahajan, who was part of national leadership at the Self-Employed Women's Association , noted that her interest in early childhood education stemmed from the perspective of motherhood, through which she recognized the importance of quality childcare for women's labor force participation and economic empowerment.

Education 106

Education EdTech Leadership Government 106

ED Surge

APRIL 25, 2022

Here, she explains how Course of Mind is helping her district strategically incorporate learning technology into their curriculum. EdSurge: What led you to enroll in the Launch into Learning Sciences course ? We're about 60 percent economically disadvantaged here in the district. So, we do try to look at equity.

EdTech 85

EdTech Geography Learning Science Economics 85