Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Sara is the Director of the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools. Members of the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools serve as examples of how forward-thinking leadership can transform learning. Through its mPower Piedmont initiative , which began in 2009, students receive a laptop with school and home Internet access.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Courtesy Mark Ray Mark Ray is the Chief Digital Officer for Vancouver Public Schools. I posed that question in my recent TEDx talk during the 2016 Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools meeting in San Diego. In my district , across the League, and across the U.S., Do you see librarians as part of the future?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Some districts purchase the product as a wholesale textbook replacement for their ELA classes. Currently, ThinkCERCA claims users in 220 districts across 40 states, including district-wide adoption in Fayette County Schools in Georgia, Farmington Municipal Schools in New Mexico, and Vancouver School District in Washington.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Pioneering districts in the League of Innovative Schools are at the forefront of incorporating computer science education in K-12, leading large-scale initiatives to integrate coding and computational thinking into their curricula. Districts are also finding a natural integration between computational thinking and maker learning.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 27, 2019

School districts should communicate their needs and give candid feedback to developers; at the same time, edtech developers need to meet the needs of diverse learners and educators to improve learning outcomes. That way, the district has taken the time to “clarify [their] needs and priorities first, then match them to a product.”.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

10 tips for developers to build strong relationships with educators, schools, and districts during the edtech purchasing process. Ben Grimley, CEO and co-founder of Speak Agent, says that before his sales team approaches a district, “We do our homework. Public schools by their nature share data publicly.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

In response to the President’s call for commitments to computer science education for all , 37 school district across the country — from Vermont to Alaska — ­have committed to offering high­ quality computer science (CS) and computational thinking curriculum to over one million students. Coordinating with the private sector.

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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. Vancouver Public Schools hosted a Girls Lead the Way summer robotics camp at McLoughlin Middle School.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 4, 2016

A cohort of 19 new school districts have been accepted into the League of Innovative Schools, a national coalition of forward-thinking school districts organized by Digital Promise, an independent, bipartisan nonprofit organization authorized by Congress to accelerate innovation in education. million students.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 14, 2016

Representing 73 districts, 33 states, and 3.2 million students, the League of Innovative Schools is a coalition of education leaders use their collective voice to advance positive change in public education, as exhibited by a powerful series of TED talks delivered this April.

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eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2019

In Vancouver (WA) Public Schools (VPS), administrators and tech leaders are focusing on equity across the board. Read more: 10 conversations about digital equity.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 30, 2015

Sara Schapiro is the director of the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools. Many of these conversations are worthwhile – it’s important to be skeptical when spending scarce dollars for public education. In response, 18 districts submitted nearly 50 videos for our first League of Innovative Schools film festival.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Traci Chun, a teacher-librarian at Skyview High School in Vancouver, Washington, and junior Ulises Santillano Tlaseca troubleshoot a 3D printing job in the library’s maker space. Traci Chun, a teacher-librarian at Skyview High School in Vancouver, Washington, is all done with shushing. Photo: Kelsey Aske.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 30, 2018

In a recent edWebinar , presenters from Vancouver Public Schools in Washington shared their processes for selecting and integrating digital content and resources to ensure effective implementations. According to Bridget Hildreth, Performance and Evaluation Analyst at Vancouver Public Schools, that last part is very important.

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eSchool News

JUNE 20, 2018

For 20 years, I was a teacher librarian and worked in elementary, middle, and high school libraries. And for the last five years, I’ve been a district administrator, including almost two years as chief digital officer overseeing IT and educational technology operations for a district of nearly 24,000 students.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 22, 2016

Melissa Gedney is the program & communications manager for the League of Innovative Schools. Districts across this country vary in size, demographics, and priorities. Here are a few key takeaways from the work taking place in each of these leaders’ districts that empowers student success.

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eSchool News

JUNE 2, 2017

As the Curriculum Specialist with Vancouver Public Schools, I oversee Secondary English Language Arts, Advanced Placement, Running Start, and College in the High Schools. Be sure to check back every month for a new “My Tech Essentials.”].

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 15, 2015

AASA, The School Superintendents Association, announced today the finalists for the 2016 National Superintendent of the Year. This marks the 29th anniversary of the program, which honors school system leaders throughout the country. Williamson began his journey in public education as a classroom teacher.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 24, 2017

MENLO PARK, CA [August 24, 2017] — Open Up Resources, the nonprofit provider of openly licensed curriculum for K–12 schools, has released its first openly licensed core program, the Illustrative Mathematics 6–8 Math curriculum. schools, the curriculum is now available for free to school districts.

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MindShift

JUNE 5, 2019

Every time Jennifer Tidd’s son was secluded or restrained at school, she received a letter from his teachers. … I just trusted the school. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights requires that school districts report every time a student is restrained or secluded. Tears are in her eyes.

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eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2024

Title: Leading in Service to Schools: Every Leader Matters School districts are in a precarious state. Have a listen: Dr. Susan Enfield is the former superintendent for the Washoe County School District in Reno, Nevada. Never have those in positions of management been so vital. Susan Enfield has been there.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Modern librarians can take charge in making their schools Future Ready. Ed note : This is the first in a series of columns from digital library expert Mark Ray discussing the changing role of librarians and the Future Ready Schools initiative. and Mooresville Graded School District in N.C.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Photos of the class of 2018 are shown on May 15, 2018, on the Onalaska High School front office wall in Onalaska, Washington. Beneath each student’s name, the district prints the names of the colleges to which each student has been accepted. And at the heart of that growth, former students and community leaders say, is the high school.

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eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2015

Superintendent Steven Webb’s successful one-to-one rollout could serve as a roadmap for districts. Before the board of Vancouver Public Schools adopted the strategic plan for the district’s digital transformation in 2008, they did extensive public outreach to ensure that every community in the district had an opportunity to be heard.

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EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Sarah was joined by Jason Markey , a principal in the Leyden School District in Chicago and Gail Moore , an Instructional Technology Facilitator for Vancouver Public Schools. Sarah is a senior project manager in the ISTE Standards department and supports K-12 implementation and understanding of the ISTE Standards.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 1, 2016

The Future Ready Schools (FRS) initiative itself launched at the White House in October 2014. When a superintendent signs the Future Ready Pledge , he or she commits to implementing meaningful changes toward a digital learning transition that supports teachers, and addresses the district’s vision for student learning.

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techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

Find a district administrator with an open door and let them know what you’re doing. Share successes as well as productive failures with both internal (school) and external audiences. Both schools are part of Vancouver (WA) Public Schools. Enlist the help of parents and community members.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 30, 2020

Students exposed to coding and programming at an early age are well equipped to take on higher-level computer science courses in high school and have essential skills for future opportunities in the technology world. Rob has taught in public, charter, and independent schools and has worked with students from PreK to 12th grade.

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eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2016

New project highlights critical role school librarians play in supporting Future Ready goals. Future Ready Schools (FRS), led by the Alliance for Excellent Education (the Alliance) in partnership with the U.S. Through Project Connect and this initiative, we will continue to advocate for strong, empowered school librarians.

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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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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

“The challenge is the level of rigor,” says one district’s deputy Superintendent. “The challenge is the level of rigor,” said John Steach, deputy superintendent of Evergreen Public Schools. What’s also new is that the Smarter Balanced Assessment is a tougher test.

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Graphite Blog

AUGUST 29, 2016

Many of these ambassadors presented at conferences, to their staffs, or in their districts. Ambassadors made a total of 97 presentations throughout the 2015–2016 school year, reaching 5,101 educators across the country. Patrick's Episcopal Day School, Washington, D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2023

VANCOUVER, Wash. Her two youngest, both attending Vancouver’s Washington Elementary School, had struggled with remote learning and still lagged their peers in basic math and reading. Her older kids loved their high school sports teams and she couldn’t imagine uprooting them. “‘Oh Please don’t make us go to another school.

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EdTechTeam

JULY 3, 2018

We are ambassadors of our schools and communities as educators. To continue to fire the flame of motivation and feeling of purpose and educational euphoria in your schools, classrooms, and district is a priority but cannot be done alone. School leaders can make it or break it. Our antiquated version of school needs to go.

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eSchool News

MARCH 2, 2016

How innovative districts are exposing more students to coding and closing the participation gap. Endorsement by the White House is valuable to those new to introducing computer science (CS) in the classroom, as well as others, like members of the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools , who have championed CS for years.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 1, 2016

The Future Ready Schools (FRS) initiative itself launched at the White House in October 2014. When a superintendent signs the Future Ready Pledge , he or she commits to implementing meaningful changes toward a digital learning transition that supports teachers, and addresses the district’s vision for student learning.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2015

As the skills expected of today’s graduates change rapidly, school districts have to overhaul their thinking on what it means to be “college and career ready.” We rounded up some best practices League members use to ensure students stay in school, get their degrees, and are prepared for success in their post-secondary endeavors.

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