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Innovative Examples of Community Involvement in Schools

Digital Promise

No matter which perspective you consider it from, creating opportunities for community involvement in schools is difficult. Schools are often a focal point for community involvement: families send children to school, where they’ll learn many of the skills they need to become happy, healthy, successful members of society.

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8 Approaches That Are Making a Difference in Public Education

Digital Promise

Within the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools (League), superintendents and other district leaders are taking on this work together in Challenge Collaboratives. Challenge: Edtech Procurement and Adoption | Response: The Educators’ Playground in Rowan-Salisbury Schools.

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New Tools for Real World Learning

Digital Promise

It’s all too common for students to feel disconnected from the real world beyond school. That’s why 12 school districts from the League of Innovative Schools have been collaborating since the spring of 2018 to research and develop a set of tools that catalyze and support Real World Learning. East Noble School Corporation.

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Can ‘Equity-Based Pricing’ Make Edtech Products More Accessible?

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-based company is planning to apply that principle to make its software license pricing more equitable for schools and districts. For example, if 51 percent of a district’s student population qualifies for free or reduced lunch, the district will get a 1 percent discount. Transparency is key here.”

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Inside One District’s Virtual Snow Days

Digital Promise

Each year, students at Owsley County Schools miss nearly a month of school because of snow and ice. The time away from class takes a real toll on student learning, says Jason Hall, an elementary school teacher in the rural Kentucky district. " Jason Hall, a teacher at Owsley County Schools.

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Snow Day? 7 Ways to Keep Teaching

Ask a Tech Teacher

To meet state and national requirements (and receive critical funding), schools must be open a minimum number of days each year. There used to be no alternative but more and more, schools are using technology to keep the learning going. For snow days, K2 students can bring home the iPads they use at school. . Google Hangouts.

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Sparking a Culture of Innovation in Northern New Jersey

Digital Promise

From creating academies for student learning in Leonia School District to establishing a STEM program for girls in Wyckoff School District, there is plenty of great work to spotlight and learn from in Northern New Jersey. Adam Fried Superintendent, Harrington Park School District.

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