Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

What happens when this same approach is applied to school districts? In partnership with the Center for Global Education at Asia Society , the League of Innovative Schools has launched innovation study tours –– a learning opportunity focused on deeper learning and equity. Compton Unified School District.

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Digital Promise

MAY 18, 2021

The Center for Inclusive Innovation ’s Community Advisory Council is made up of social change leaders who work collaboratively with the Center, offering guidance on community-driven design, network building, and more. Tiffany Majors, President & CEO of the Greater Baltimore Urban League (GBUL).

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

After school visits, focus groups, design sessions, and dozens of interviews with superintendents and district leaders, Digital Promise is launching new initiatives to expand the impact and scale of the League of Innovative Schools. You can learn more about our current League members here.

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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.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 7, 2017

Mentor Public Schools is a suburban district 20 miles east of Cleveland, Ohio, which serves 7,650 preK-12 students across 42 square miles. Adapting to create innovative environments. League leaders will see the space firsthand and collaborate within it at the spring League meeting. As a result of a $13.8

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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

OCTOBER 23, 2019

The League of Innovative Schools (League) convened in Washington, D.C. and Loudoun County Virginia last week for the biannual #DPLIS meeting, co-hosted with Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS). Fall 2019 League Meeting Intro from Digital Promise on Vimeo. dpleague #dplis pic.twitter.com/zy37jiuI92.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 26, 2021

In the Cajon Valley Union School District, they’ve added a few follow-up questions: “What skills and experiences will you need? There are plans to expand these gateways to all of the district’s K-8 and middle schools through the course of the next year. What do you do well? How can we help you to meet your goal?”.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 20, 2018

2018 was an incredible year for the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools and Education Innovation Clusters (EdClusters). On the 12th day of Innovation, the League and Clusters gave to you… 12 New League Districts. Take a look at our Year in Review! 11 States Visited.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

All it takes to kick off an esports team in a K–12 school or district is a dedicated internal champion, proponents advised this week at the 2019 Illinois Computing Educators conference. . For example, IT might need to adjust a firewall to whitelist games so that they can be played on school computers. . eli.zimmerman_9856.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 22, 2018

It is particularly interesting to examine why the ubiquity of innovation and technology has not managed to level the playing field. Why hasn’t innovation in teaching and learning cascaded to underserved populations? The challenge is equity efforts in public education often fall short of their intentions.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 10, 2018

School districts across the country are tackling the toughest challenges in education, including kindergarten readiness, family engagement, and school redesign. League Superintendent. Introducing the Challenge Map. Teaching with Technology. College & Career Readiness.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2024

Some pundits are blaming antisemitism and plagiarism, ignoring the white supremacist politics at the center of her ouster: the same politics shaping higher education at schools like Harvard since the creation of higher education in the United States. Similar comments on free speech also felled University of Pennsylvania President M.

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Digital Promise

MAY 27, 2020

For superintendents in the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools , this is an opportunity to examine and reimagine their education systems under new constraints. The Equity Gap and Digital Divide Creates a Disconnect for School Districts. So, we’ve been trying to advocate for those mobile hotspots.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Our work over the past five years convening education innovation ecosystem builders has shown the potential of networks to address our deepest challenges in education. This group developed and workshopped an initial “equity audit” that evolved into our newly published framework, Equity Inquiry for Education Networks. Network Health.

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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

MAY 13, 2021

Modest majorities of teachers and parents, though, rate their school highly for communicating about how it’s operating in the pandemic. Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) : Teachers perceived their students’ top problem as missing social interactions at school or with friends (88 percent), followed by keeping up academically (82 percent).

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eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2024

Here’s how a middle school ELA teacher is learning to support the students in her class who were passed along without receiving the literacy instruction they needed. Maryland’s Prince George’s County Public Schools is supporting all K-3 teachers with science of reading resources and practices.

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Digital Promise

MAY 14, 2019

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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Digital Promise

JULY 10, 2017

Leaders from the League of Innovative Schools, a network of the country’s most forward-thinking educators, recently convened in Mentor, Ohio, for the League’s Spring 2017 meeting hosted by Mentor Public Schools. These factors influence the rate, path, and process of school district innovation.

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eSchool News

JULY 6, 2020

As more districts start K-12 esports leagues of their own, the academic and social-emotional benefits become increasingly clear. Roughly a year and a half ago, leaders in the Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District (GCISD) in Texas, which has been 1:1 for 8 years, noticed the growing esports trend at the collegiate level.

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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. Relevance to Students. Integrating with the Maker Movement.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 29, 2016

In March 2016, Digital Promise and Maker Ed issued a call-to-action for school leaders around the country to commit to growing the next generation of American makers. school leaders have answered the call by signing the Maker Promise. So how do you sustain a maker program, and encourage the sorts of innovative action required for this?

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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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2022

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. In October 2020, Digital Promise launched the Center for Inclusive Innovation, as a way to create this support.

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Digital Promise

MAY 30, 2019

In collaboration with HP and Microsoft’s Reinvent the Classroom Initiative, Digital Promise Global is launching two new programs that celebrate teachers and schools who demonstrate powerful teaching and learning with technology. Now, we are pleased to present the first HP Spotlight School, William F. Halloran School No.

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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. You can reach her on Twitter at @sschappy. In Vancouver, Wash., In Vancouver, Wash.,

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Cristian, a fourth grader originally from Mexico, speaks Spanish at home but struggles with his lessons at school. Modeled after a successful summer learning program in Boston, the Backpack League kicked-off its inaugural year as a pop-up school created to exist for one month. I know how to do that!” He’s making tortillas.

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Digital Promise

JULY 12, 2018

Within the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools (League), superintendents and other district leaders are taking on this work together in Challenge Collaboratives. In the process, League leaders shared eight approaches and solutions that are working now…and why. Learn more: ISTE Feature.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Members of the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools serve as examples of how forward-thinking leadership can transform learning. Both districts are founding members of the League, and have long demonstrated their commitment to improve achievement and access for students. In Vancouver, Wash., In Vancouver, Wash.,

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 21, 2020

That’s what a lucky group of 20 students at Horace Mann UCLA Community School are about to experience as they take part in an innovative afterschool program. A partnership between UCLA and the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), Mann is a public school serving students in grades 6-12.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

As more districts start K-12 esports leagues of their own, the academic and social-emotional benefits become increasingly clear. Roughly a year and a half ago, leaders in the Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District (GCISD) in Texas, which has been 1:1 for 8 years, noticed the growing esports trend at the collegiate level.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 30, 2015

Sara Schapiro is the director of the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools. So when technology “failures” occur in our schools, it’s easy to blame what’s right in front of us. We wanted League members to tell us why they are unique, from the perspectives of leaders, educators, and students.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2021

League, a robotics program created through an alliance between FIRST ? Curiosity piqued, she presented the program to her principal, worked to secure funding and stepped up to coach the after-school program. We moved our daughter back to face-to-face schooling because she was really struggling with connecting to the teacher.

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Digital Promise

JULY 13, 2016

Superintendents and chief technology officers from the League of Innovative Schools serve as coaches and support participating districts’ ongoing digital transformations by providing expertise and technical assistance to key district leaders. Becoming digital ready can be a daunting task with obstacles along the way.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 5, 2017

For the last year, working groups focused on maker-centered learning and research in the League of Innovative Schools have joined forces to focus on the research behind the national wave of enthusiasm in maker learning. Dr. Clapp and meeting participants dove into questions like, What is making? What is its value in education?

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Digital Promise

JUNE 27, 2017

Since the fall 2016 meeting of the League of Innovative Schools , superintendents from around the country have connected with leading researchers in the field of maker learning. Their second meeting featured Dr. Edward Clapp, director of Harvard University’s Agency by Design initiative, on the topic of maker empowerment.

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