Digital Promise

MAY 25, 2017

The Digital Promise maker learning team spent some time in Greer, South Carolina this winter observing and filming the Riverside Middle School Library Club students as they worked to design solutions to problems they identified in their community. We are excited to share their story as the second in our series of Maker Promise videos.

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Libraries Learning Future Ready Equity of Access 257

eSchool News

APRIL 28, 2021

The Social-Emotional Learning Coalition provides K-12 educators, students, families, and afterschool directors a no-cost library of digital social and emotional learning (SEL) resources supporting the integration of SEL into core instruction. The Allstate Foundation and National AfterSchool Association are anchor partners.

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Industry Resources Equity of Access Education 73

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 19, 2021

Despite decades of research consistently showing positive correlations between high-quality programs and achievement, patterns suggest, for today’s children and for children to come, a school library-rich future is, or potentially will not be, evenly distributed. Teacher Librarian 48 (5): 30-31. The Perspectives Report.

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Data Tools Libraries Future Ready 123

eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Drawing upon USC Shoah Foundation’s vast library of audiovisual testimony from survivors and witnesses of genocides, Teaching with Testimony empowers students to find their voices and take action for a better future. It takes all of us working together to ensure equity of access in education so students can live to their full potential.

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STEM Education EdTech Equity of Access 100

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 21, 2021

For example, one of the things that we learned was that the majority of Hispanic school districts are twice as likely not to have school libraries as the majority non-Hispanic districts. This is a piece of hard data relating to equity. Districts are also eliminating library clericals and paraprofessionals at alarming rates.

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Study Libraries E-rate Data 99

TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 27, 2015

That might be to pick up a pencil, read a print text, FaceTime their grandma who happens to be a veterinarian in Denmark, log onto a library database, send a Tweet to find an expert around a topic they are learning about, etc. Action Step 4: Provide always-on, asynchronous access to that which is being assessed. Everything.

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Assessment How To Equity of Access Strategy 40