• Creating Conditions for Powerful Technology Use: Teachers’ Technology Journey in Puerto Rico 

  Lopez, Carol; Younge, Odelia (Digital Promise, 2021-09)

  This case study report synthesizes the findings from the perspective of 14 teachers on their technology journey in Puerto Rico from May 2020 through August 2021, as well as from larger island-wide surveys and data.
• Inclusive Innovation: Increasing Recruitment and Retention of Teachers of Color 

  Gold, Thomas (Digital Promise, 2021-01)

  To address the inequities in the teaching workforce and the importance of ensuring all students experience learning from diverse teacher perspectives, Digital Promise launched an initiative to engage teachers of color in ...
• Cultivando una Cultura de Coaching para Apoyar el Uso Poderoso de la Tecnología: Resultados del Modelo de Coaching Basado en Retos Piloto en Puerto Rico 

  Lopez, Carol; Younge, Odelia (Digital Promise and Global Education Exchange Opportunities (GEEO), 2021-08)

  Este informe de coaching representa los resultados y hallazgos de un piloto de coaching de Global Education Exchange Opportunities (GEEO), con el apoyo de Digital Promise, lanzó con 10 escuelas en todo Puerto Rico de enero ...
• Cultivating a Culture of Coaching to Support Powerful Use of Technology: Results from the Challenge-based Coaching Model Pilot in Puerto Rico 

  Lopez, Carol; Younge, Odelia (Digital Promise and Global Education Exchange Opportunities (GEEO), 2021-08)

  This coaching report represents the results and findings from a 6-month coaching pilot that Global Education Exchange Opportunities (GEEO), with the support of Digital Promise, launched with 10 schools across Puerto Rico ...
• Student Empathy Interviews: An Instrument For Considering More Inclusive K-12 Computing Pathways 

  Ruiz, Pati; Mills, Kelly; Burke, Quinn; Coenraad, Merijke (2021-05-26)

  This presentation shares the development and use of empathy interviews at Iowa City Community School District (ICCSD) which is the fifth largest school district in the state. At this district, equity challenges have arisen ...
• Intelligence Augmentation for Collaborative Learning 

  Roschelle, Jeremy (Springer, 2021-07-27)

  Today’s classrooms can be remarkably different from those of yesteryear. In place of individual students responding to the teacher from neat rows of desks, today’s innovative schools have students working in groups on ...
• Designing an App to Support Families’ Joint Engagement with Media: Design Principles and Lessons from Research 

  Digital Promise; The Jim Henson Company; Concord Evaluation Group; Curious Media (Digital Promise, 2021-06)

  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. ...
• Splash and Bubbles for Parents App: Station Study Report 

  Leones, Tiffany; Kamdar, Danae; Huynh, Kayla; Gedney, Melissa; Dominguez, Ximena (Digital Promise, 2021-06)

  This report, prepared for The Jim Henson Company, shares findings of a sub-study investigating the types of support parents and caregivers need when navigating and using the second-screen Splash and Bubbles for Parents ...
• Splash and Bubbles for Parents App: Field Study Report 

  Dominguez, Ximena; Rood, Elizabeth; Kamdar, Danae; Leones, Tiffany; Huynh, Kayla (Digital Promise, 2021-06)

  This report prepared for The Jim Henson Company shares findings of a field study examining the promise of the Splash and Bubbles for Parents app, a second-screen digital resource designed for parents and caregivers to ...
• Funding Coaching is Not Enough: The Role of the District Administrator in Coaching 

  Hardy, Angela; Bakhshaei, Mahsa (Digital Promise, 2021-05)

  Districts are increasingly investing in coaching programs to improve teacher practice and student outcomes. However, merely providing schools with the funding for a coaching position is not enough. To maximize the return ...
• How School Administrators can Serve as Productive Partners in Teacher Coaching Programs 

  Bakhshaei, Mahsa; Hardy, Angela (Digital Promise, 2021-05)

  When school administrators support instructional coaching, it is more likely to be effective in improving teacher practice. Building teacher buy-in, promoting awareness of the coach’s non-evaluative role, ensuring coaches ...
• Lessons From Remote Learning During COVID-19 

  Means, Barbara; Peters, Vanessa; Neisler, Julie; Wiley, Korah; Griffiths, Rebecca (Digital Promise, 2021-03)

  The abrupt transition to remote instruction in response to COVID-19 posed significant challenges for both students and instructors. This report provides data on the prevalence of the different kinds of challenges college ...
• Powerful Learning with Computational Thinking: Our Why, What, and How of Computational Thinking 

  Digital Promise (Digital Promise, 2021-03)

  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, ...
• Empathy Interviews for Developing Inclusive Computing Pathways 

  Coenraad, Merijke; Hodge, Malliron; Ruiz, Pati; Mills, Kelly; Burke, Quinn (Center for Inclusive Innovation, Digital Promise, 2021)

  This interview protocol includes five steps to conduct an empathy interview. In the Empathize Phase of designing an inclusive computing pathway, empathy interviews are conducted. Empathy interviews allow you to hear the ...
• Rubrics for Examining Historical Thinking Skills in High School World History Activities and Student Work: Construct Validity Evidence from the Literature 

  Hardy, Angela; Iwatani, Emi (Digital Promise, 2021-01)

  Digital Promise sought to create and validate historical thinking skills rubrics for use in its evaluation of Gates Ventures’ World History Project (WHP) curriculum. Adopting a principled assessment development approach ...
• Rubrics on Historical Thinking Skills for Assignments and Student Work: Initial Validity Evidence 

  Iwatani, Emi; Means, Barbara; Seylar, John; Hardy, Angela (Digital Promise, 2021-01)

  Digital Promise sought to create and validate two sets of Historical Thinking Skills rubrics for use in its evaluation of Gates Ventures’ World History Project (WHP) curriculum: one for evaluating teacher-assigned activities, ...
• Rubrics for Examining Historical Thinking Skills in High School World History Activities and Student Work 

  Hardy, Angela; Iwatani, Emi; Means, Barbara; Seylar, John (Digital Promise, 2021-01)

  These Historical Thinking Skills rubrics were created and validated for use in the evaluation of Gates Ventures’ World History Project (WHP) curriculum. The set of rubrics for scoring teacher lessons were designed to ...
• Implementing and scaling Differentiated Literacy System: A case of evaluators’ voices channeling outside-in and bottom-up perspectives for equity and continuous improvement 

  Vang, Mai Chou; Kasad, Zareen; Young, Viki M. (Digital Promise, 2020-10)

  Digital Promise is supporting the implementation and scaling of Differentiated Literacy System (DLS), a tool and instructional coaching for K–3 teachers to meet individual students’ literacy needs. Based on interviews with ...
• STEM Courses During the COVID Pandemic: Lessons from Spring 2020 

  Means, Barbara; Peters, Vanessa; Neisler, Julie; Griffiths, Rebecca (Digital Promise Global, 2020-12)

  The abrupt transition to remote instruction in response to COVID posed significant challenges for both students and instructors. This report provides data on the prevalence of the different kinds of challenges students ...
• Instructional Coaching Holds Promise as a Method to Improve Instruction with Technology 

  Bakhshaei, Mahsa; Hardy, Angela; Ravitz, Jason; Seylar, John (Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education (SITE), 2020-04)

  Instructional coaching is an evidence-based form of professional development to support teacher growth. Few empirical studies examine conditions that define its effectiveness in improving teachers’ ability to use technology ...

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