Digital Promise

Digital Promise shapes the future of learning and advances equitable education systems by bringing together solutions across research, practice, and technology. This planning grant will support Digital Promise’s efforts to research and share best practices for supporting newcomer students who are multilingual learners in school districts. (Substrategy: District Deep Dives and Networks)

Digital Promise shapes the future of learning and advances equitable education systems by bringing together solutions across research, practice, and technology. With this grant, Digital Promise will apply and scale an Inclusive Innovation framework using Socratic Circles to support social justice and equity dialog in classrooms and communities. The Socratic Circles model will be applied in a range of contexts, with participating districts, to support the development of teacher cultural competency and culturally responsive teaching; and to identify pathways in which Socratic Circles can support bidirectional communication between home and school. Materials developed to support this model will be made available as open educational resources. (Substrategy: Sustainable Systems)

Digital Promise has a mission to spur innovation to improve equity and the opportunity to learn for all. By tapping into and honoring the expertise of researchers, developers, teachers, students, and parents and utilizing best-in-class user-centered design principles, Digital Promise will co-create professional development and classroom OER that build capacity and enable the conditions for racial justice in America’s classrooms. This project will advance the implementation and use of OER in K-12 school districts, as well as contribute to the development of an inclusive field that is responsive to diverse educators and learners. (Substrategy: Sustainable Systems)