Digital Promise

JANUARY 25, 2021

Digital Promise’s board of directors has appointed Jean-Claude Brizard as its new president and chief executive officer (CEO), effective March 1. Brizard succeeds Karen Cator in the role and will assume day-to-day leadership of Digital Promise while also joining its board of directors.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 4, 2021

For more than 35 years, Jean-Claude Brizard has worked in education as a teacher, school leader, superintendent, chief executive, funder, and education advocate. He brings that deep experience to his new role as President and CEO of Digital Promise, at a time when the need for innovation in education is especially critical.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

On October 19-21, the League of Innovative Schools convened in Los Angeles, California, for their biannual League meeting, which was hosted alongside Compton Unified School District and El Segundo Unified School District. Opening panel moderated by Digital Promise’s President and CEO, Jean-Claude Brizard.

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Digital Promise

JULY 1, 2020

Digital Promise is incredibly excited to welcome the Edcamp Foundation to our family of projects and programs. The Edcamp Community project within Digital Promise will continue to provide the support to Edcamp organizers that the Edcamp Foundation has provided. I assure you the process will remain familiar.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Digital Promise is thrilled to announce 37 districts—including 26 new districts and 11 returning districts—will join the ranks of the League of Innovative Schools for the 2021-2022 school year. This year’s League of Innovative Schools cohort is demonstrative of that innovation. Brigantine Public School District.

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Digital Promise

JULY 12, 2022

Verizon Innovative Learning Schools have been doing just that since 2014. The program provides devices with internet access to more than 550 Title I middle and high schools across the country. Students, schools, and families connect and learn. Devices need to be “checked out” to students.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The start of the school year is an exciting time for the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools community, as schools are rolling out devices to students. For the 31 Cohort 10 schools that are just beginning their Verizon Innovative Learning journey, rollout is the beginning of new learning opportunities.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 7, 2022

Simultaneously, every learner and community is equipped with connected devices, learning content, digital literacy skills, technical support, and a reliable, high-speed internet connection. Skills in digital use and digital literacy among learners and communities can support adoption.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The Need for AI Literacy in Education The rapidly evolving space of artificial intelligence (AI) requires school and district leaders to make sense of how emerging technology applications, including those that use generative AI (Gen AI), are being integrated into schools and districts across the United States. What Is AI Literacy?

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 15, 2020

For the past six years, Digital Promise has convened a national network of Education Innovation Clusters (EdClusters)—leaders working to collaborate outside the traditional silos of sector and institution to design and implement transformative learning tools and programs in their communities. Reimagining learning.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 9, 2021

122 billion of unprecedented federal funding is now available to school districts, providing an opportunity to make significant strides in closing the Digital Learning Gap —but only if we think differently about how schools use technology to meet the needs of every learner. Support for parents and caregivers.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 13, 2020

For more than six years, we’ve worked to close the homework gap , ensuring that all students have equitable access to the internet and technology for powerful learning opportunities outside of the classroom, augmenting what is available in school. Our first priority was making sure our Digital Promise team was safe, healthy, and supported.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 20, 2022

The webinar, hosted by Digital Promise as part of HP and Microsoft’s Reinvent the Classroom initiative, highlights four strategies for encouraging creativity in students and how they stay creative in their own work: Practice a growth mindset. The first is the shift from consumption to creation.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 1, 2021

When the COVID-19 pandemic forced schools to shutter and educators and students rapidly shifted to distance learning, those in Verizon Innovative Learning Schools program had the advantage of already knowing how to use devices and apps for learning. I think that data (plan) anywhere and everywhere—you can’t beat that.

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Digital Promise

MAY 20, 2021

Digital Promise is thrilled to partner with five of today’s most innovative postsecondary institutions that are using micro-credentials to create real-time pathways to social mobility for adult learners in rural communities. Increasing efforts to prioritize communities of color and women. Here is a sneak peek at our five lead partners!

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 23, 2019

In collaboration with HP and Microsoft’s Reinvent the Classroom Initiative , Digital Promise Global is proud to announce Lone Star Middle School of Nampa School District in Idaho as the newest HP Spotlight School. Nampa School District’s Commitment to Personalized Learning.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 14, 2021

HP Teaching Fellows are part of Reinvent the Classroom , a collaboration between Digital Promise, HP, Microsoft, and Intel. HP Teaching Fellows become part of a network of like-minded educators who deepen their understanding of Powerful Learning through free professional learning with Digital Promise.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 24, 2021

Many educators are asking, “How do I find the tools that we can leverage to achieve our vision for the 2021-22 school year?”. Districts and schools have significant flexibility in how the funding is spent, which presents opportunities to tailor investments to meet unique community needs.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 6, 2022

During the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic, many school districts were quick to send devices home with students and to provide digital resources that may have been engaging, but may not have been as “data safe” as districts thought. students were using in our school district were keeping student data safe.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Paula Stamey, a seventh-grade social studies teacher in Benton, Tennessee, taught for 20 years before her school became a Verizon Innovative Learning School and adopted one-to-one technology in 2017. Initially, she resisted this change, feeling it was unnecessary and distracting. “I

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Digital Promise

JULY 21, 2020

As the COVID-19 pandemic persists, schools and districts across the country are planning for the upcoming school year and the likely possibility of continued remote learning. This presents a unique challenge to schools who seek to keep students connected to the real world through community-based learning opportunities.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 31, 2020

With the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic closing schools across the country, districts are scrambling for ways to teach children who might be home until the end of summer. Moreover, coaches have had the opportunity to build relationships with teachers over the course of the school year.

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Digital Promise

MAY 7, 2019

Digital Promise and Verizon Innovative Learning are excited to introduce Verizon Innovative Learning schools Connection —a web app designed to connect members of the Verizon Innovative Learning schools community to each other and to key resources. Centralizing information for Verizon Innovative Learning schools.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Digital Promise first launched our Micro-credential Policy Map in January 2020 to share valuable information on how states and districts across the U.S. The new filters include: District-Level Incentives : Individual schools and/or districts have policies recognizing micro-credentials earned by educators.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 15, 2021

For example, although Black, Latino, and Native American students comprise 40 percent of the public high school enrollment and more than 17 percent of college degree holders, they are just 13 percent of working scientists and engineers. To help address this gap, Digital Promise has received a five-year U.S.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 16, 2020

HP Teaching Fellows are part of Reinvent the Classroom , a collaboration between Digital Promise, HP, Microsoft, and Intel. HP Teaching Fellows become part of a network of like-minded educators who deepen their understanding of Powerful Learning through free professional learning with Digital Promise.

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Digital Promise

MAY 19, 2021

What a difficult school year it has been for teachers. As Digital Promise team members who have researched and supported teachers’ use of educational technology, we want to recognize and celebrate your successes. Consider seeking out recommendations from a district/school leader, instructional coach, or other teachers.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

It’s not every day that a top executive from a Fortune 500 company visits a middle school located more than 600 miles from the company’s headquarters. Whitewater is one of 152 Verizon Innovative Learning Schools nationwide, and currently one of eight with an Innovative Learning Lab.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 5, 2020

The Future Ready Librarians ® initiative has already changed the conversation about ways in which teacher librarians lead, teach, and support innovative learning in schools. The Future Ready Librarians initiative aligns school libraries and librarians with strategic work through the Future Ready Librarians Framework.

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Edsurge

JULY 17, 2023

As technology becomes increasingly integrated into our daily lives, schools are recognizing the importance of equipping every student with a personal device to facilitate digital learning. EdSurge: What was the device rollout planning process like for Newburg Middle School? We announced, “iPads are coming! Devices are coming!”

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Digital Promise

MAY 4, 2020

Schools across the country rapidly shifted to remote learning due to COVID-19-related closures. Students and teachers at Verizon Innovative Learning Schools —where every student receives a device that comes equipped with a data plan to support learning in and out of the classroom—had the advantage of already knowing how to use learning apps.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2023

At Indian Prairie School District (IPSD), located just west of Chicago, one of the crucial alignment points—a “north star,” if you will—for the district’s 35 schools is its Portrait of a Graduate profile.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Rollout is an exciting time for the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools community, as students receive their devices for the school year. Rollout marks the beginning of a journey for the 52 Cohort 6 schools who will be able to embark on new learning opportunities that are not possible without technology. Students at H.B.

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Digital Promise

MAY 22, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has shed light on systemic inequities and tested the resilience of schools and communities across the country. That network, counting more than 500 schools and organizations, has proved critical in addressing the current crisis. Remake Learning: A Network Responds to Crisis and Envisions a New Tomorrow.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

When a Hammocks Middle School seventh grader was selected as the winner of the Miami-Dade County Public Schools Superintendent’s Holiday Card Award in December, it was hard to believe her artwork, “ Holidays by the Beach ,” was created on an iPad. A Hammocks student took top prize in the Beaux Arts Showcase Digital Art competition.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Tara Bova is a second grade teacher at Barbara Blanchard Elementary School in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. As a member of her school’s Trauma-Informed Team, Tara is a passionate advocate for SEL in classrooms and uses talking circles, restorative circles, and mindfulness exercises daily to refocus and help her students feel safe and grounded.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 12, 2021

In my role as Verizon Innovative Learning Schools (VILS) coach at Fischer Middle School in San Jose, and a member of the Digital Promise Powerful Learning Community (PLC) for Coaches, reflection, sustainability, and connection have been essential for me this year.

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