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Shifting Education with Learning Pathways: Becoming Your Portrait of a Graduate
(Digital Promise, 2024-03) Kelly Mills; Josh Weisgrau; Quinn Burke; Keun-woo Lee; Teresa Solorzano; Merijke Coenraad
There is a necessity for an educational shift to equip today’s learners for success in a dynamically evolving world shaped by emerging technologies and globalization. Emphasizing the importance of academic and technical skills, this report stresses the need for learners to possess adaptability and interpretive abilities to apply these skills in diverse contexts. The “Portrait of the Graduate” initiative is introduced as a visionary framework where readers will learn more about the skillsets districts across the country have identified for students. Furthermore, this report will introduce readers to the design and implementation of “Integrated Learning Pathways'' as a strategy to breathe life into the Portrait of the Graduate and will provide examples of districts putting their Portraits into action. The report concludes with recommending district leaders to create Integrated Learning Pathways to align learning and initiatives to their Portrait of a Graduate and ultimately better prepare students for a successful future.
Review of Guidance from Seven States on AI in Education
(Digital Promise, 2024-02) Jeremy Roschelle, Judi Fusco, Pati Ruiz
As Artificial Intelligence within education becomes increasingly important, Digital Promise reviewed the guidance documents released by seven states—California, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Virginia, Washington state, and West Virginia—on how to approach artificial intelligence (AI) in education. Throughout this report we summarize the overall themes and considerations that each guidance document covers.
Looking Back to Move Forward
(SEERNet, Digital Promise, 2024-01) Jeremy Roschelle; Adam Schellinger
SEERNet digital learning platforms (DLPs) are developing new infrastructure to support research in authentic contexts where student learning is happening. In order to contextualize this work within the larger field, we trace historical precedents along four main categories: data repositories, data collection services, research design interfaces, and research communities. By situating this innovative movement alongside its predecessors, we can identify the opportunities for SEERNet and others to progress and sustain the mission of making research more scalable, equitable, and rigorous.
A New Narrative: How Unlocking the Power of R&D Through Inclusive Innovation Can Transform Education
(Digital Promise, 2024-01) Kimberly Smith; Viki Young
Across the country, district-community teams are tackling pressing and complex educational challenges with Inclusive Innovation, an education R&D model that starts with centering the needs of those most impacted by these challenges. This paper shares the stories, solutions, outcomes, and learnings from years of deep collaboration in the words of students, parents, teachers, and district leaders who have worked together to tackle education challenges—and discusses how the Center for Inclusive Innovation, anchored in its core tenets, is building upon this work with the Inclusive Innovation 2.0 model.
Empowering High School Communities to Evaluate Their Programs Through Alumni Surveys
(Digital Promise, 2023-10) Shelton Daal, MPP; Emi Iwatani, PhD; Tiffany Leones, MEd
This presentation explores how iterative co-design was used as a culturally responsive methodology to design alumni surveys for equity-focused high schools. Digital Promise, as the evaluation partner, collaboratively built diverse design teams incorporating teachers, administrators, community partners, alumni, parents, and students from school communities. The teams actively engaged in the survey design process, continuously considering how alumni perspectives could enhance equity within the programs. Crucially, Digital Promise emphasized that the school communities retained control throughout the project, allowing them to generate goals and questions, finalize the question set, determine the survey sample, review results, ideate next steps, and provide input at every stage. Digital Promise aims to leverage these experiences for continued work with schools, placing a renewed emphasis on equity, scalability, healing, and sustainability.