Browsing by Author "Digital Promise"

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    Bridging the Digital Divide for Low-Income Students
    (Digital Promise, 2014-04-07) Digital Promise
    Part of a series of case studies produced by Digital Promise examining the work of members in our League of Innovative Schools. Click here for more info on the League.
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    Changing a Rural Community’s Expectations Through 24/7 Learning
    (2014-08-27) Digital Promise
    Part of a series of case studies produced by Digital Promise examining the work of members in our League of Innovative Schools. Click here for more info on the League. To stay up to date on future case studies, sign up for our email newsletter.
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    Defining Computational Thinking for a District: Inclusive Computing Pathways in Indian Prairie School District
    (Digital Promise, 2021) Digital Promise
    This district overview highlights the work Indian Prairie School District (IPSD) did over the course of three years to plan, build, and implement computing pathways. IPSD is a suburban school district serving 28,000 students in the Naperville, Aurora, Bolingbrook, and Plainfield communities outside of Chicago. As a member of Digital Promise’s League of Innovative Schools, IPSD applied to participate in the National Science Foundation-funded Developing Inclusive K-12 Computing Pathways for the League of Innovative Schools (CT Pathways) project to focus on developing an Inclusive K-12 Computing Pathway aligning the computing courses available within the district. Specifically, IPSD set an equity goal of focusing on a cluster of 5 Title I elementary schools within the district; IPSD sought to increase computing opportunities within these schools to ensure that computing was not only occurring in specific schools or parts of the district but rather reaching all students in the district.
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    Designing an App to Support Families’ Joint Engagement with Media: Design Principles and Lessons from Research
    (Digital Promise, 2021-06) Digital Promise; The Jim Henson Company; Concord Evaluation Group; Curious Media;
    In this paper, our collaborative project team shares design principles and lessons learned from research for designing an app to support families’ joint engagement with media and promote powerful shared learning experiences. We provide a rationale, based on research literature, for why a second-screen app in particular addresses our project goals. In addition, we describe the Splash and Bubbles for Parents app components as well as the co-design process and design-based research studies conducted to inform its design and development. Finally, our team offers design principles grounded in findings from our research that may be useful to app developers and researchers interested in continuing and expanding on this work.
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    Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty
    (Digital Promise, 2016-02-08) Digital Promise
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    Every Learner Everywhere and Lighthouse Institutions: First-Year Experiences
    (Digital Promise and Every Learner Everywhere, 2020-03) Digital Promise; Every Learner Everywhere
    In this report, Every Learner Everywhere & Lighthouse Institutions share first-year experiences of 2- and 4-year colleges piloting new versions of gateway courses incorporating adaptive learning in an effort to address achievement gaps for first-generation students, low-income students, and students of color by improving teaching and learning with the support of adaptive tools.
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    Evolving Ed-Tech Procurement in School Districts
    (Digital Promise, 2013) Digital Promise; IDEO
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    The IEP Project: A Strength-based, Whole Learner Teacher Guide
    (Digital Promise, 2023-02) Digital Promise
    Individual Education Programs (IEPs) are the entry point to the design of teaching and learning for students with disabilities. This guidebook provides teachers with reflective questions, a sample response bank, strategies from the research-based Learner Variability Navigator, and other resources to write strength-based IEPs. Strength-based includes not only strengths in academic or content areas. It also includes strengths in the ability to collaborate, or found in unique backgrounds and languages, for example. The goal is to create a sense of belonging in classrooms so students with learning disabilities are understood and provided with the tools they need to meet their potential in school and beyond.
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    Innovation Starts in the Classroom
    (Digital Promise, 2014-07-07) Digital Promise
    Part of a series of case studies produced by Digital Promise examining the work of members in our League of Innovative Schools. Click here for more info on the League. To stay up to date on future case studies, sign up for our email newsletter.
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    The New Librarian: Leaders in the Digital Age
    (Digital Promise, 2014) Digital Promise
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    Nico & Nor Family Flyer
    (Digital Promise, 2023-04) Digital Promise; Education Development Center (EDC); WGBH Educational Foundation (GBH)
    This family flyer shares about the First 8 Studios resource, Early Science with Nico & NorⓇ, which is a preschool science program co-designed with partner teachers and families, curricula and media developers at GBH, and Digital Promise and EDC researchers. It also describes findings from our research study. The flyer is available in English and Spanish.
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    Nico & Nor Teacher Flyer
    (Digital Promise, 2023-04) Digital Promise; Education Development Center; WGBH Educational Foundation (GBH)
    This classroom flyer shares about the First 8 Studios resource, Early Science with Nico and NorⓇ, which is a preschool science program co-designed with partner teachers and families, curricula and media developers at GBH, and Digital Promise and EDC researchers. It also describes findings from our research study.
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    Nurturing an Innovative District: Inclusive Computing Pathways in Talladega County Schools
    (Digital Promise, 2021) Digital Promise
    This district overview highlights the work Talladega County Schools (Talladega) did over the course of three years to plan, build, and implement computing pathways. Talladega County Schools is a 7,500-student district in rural Alabama. Talladega has eleven STEAM-certified schools and 48% of all educators participate in STEAM leadership professional learning. As a member of Digital Promise’s League of Innovative Schools, Talladega applied to participate in the National Science Foundation-funded Developing Inclusive K-12 Computing Pathways for the League of Innovative Schools project to focus on developing an Inclusive K-12 Computing Pathway aligning the computing courses available within the district. Talladega set an equity goal of focusing on including two specific populations: offering computer science and computational thinking to students from low socioeconomic households as well as female students.
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    Powerful Learning with Computational Thinking: Our Why, What, and How of Computational Thinking
    (Digital Promise, 2021-03) Digital Promise
    The Powerful Learning with Computational Thinking report explains how the Digital Promise team works with districts, schools, and teachers to make computational thinking ideas more concrete to practitioners for teaching, design, and assessment. We describe three powerful ways of using computers that integrate well with academic subject matter and align to our goals for students: (1) collecting, analyzing, and communicating data; (2) automating procedures and processes; and (3) using models to understand systems. We also explore our four main commitments to computational thinking at Digital Promise: PreK-8 Integration; Commitment from District Leadership; Inclusive Participation of Students Historically Marginalized From Computing; and Participatory and Iterative Design.
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    The “Science” of Computing: Inclusive Computing Pathways in Iowa City Community School District
    (Digital Promise, 2021) Digital Promise
    This district overview highlights the work Iowa City Community School District (ICCSD) did over the course of three years to plan, build, and implement computing pathways. ICCSD is a college-town district serving 14,000 students and is rapidly becoming more urban and diverse. As a member of Digital Promise’s League of Innovative Schools, ICCSD applied to participate in the National Science Foundation-funded grant project Developing Inclusive K-12 Computing Pathways for the League of Innovative Schools to focus on developing an Inclusive K-12 Computing Pathway aligning the computing courses available within the district. ICCSD set an equity goal of focusing on improving access to computing for their Black and Latinx students including students designated as English language learners.