Learner Variability Project – Digital Promise

Learner Variability Project

At Digital Promise Global, the Learner Variability Project (LVP) initiative seeks to build on emerging research on learner variability and uncover strategies to meet learners where they are across varied contexts and needs.

Building relationships by understanding each student’s variability in the content areas of their courses, their cognitive development, social emotional capacities, and their background, is essential for learning to occur. Our Learner Variability Navigator is a whole child framework and puts research to work for practitioners and edtech product developers.

What Is Important For Us

While our Learner Models focus on understanding the variability of each student, we realize that “there is no such thing as a developing child independent of context”. (Pamela Cantor)

Through our reports, webinars, and partnerships, we highlight the impact that context can have on each learner. With intentionality, we view our work through an equity lens, ensuring that students who historically have been marginalized in school and society have their unique needs met and are celebrated for who they are, what they do, and their potential as global citizens.

What is Learner Variability?
Explore the Navigator
LVP Webinar Series
Students' Learner Variability

Discover

Explore how we collaborate with educators, edtech developers, and our partners to elevate and address the unique needs of each learner through the Learner Variability Navigator and our various reports, case studies, blogs, and videos.

About

Learn about the LVP team, our work, and our free, open-source web app, the Learner Variability Navigator.

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Educators

Teachers, coaches, administrators are key audiences for LVP. Explore what we offer to help you address each learner’s variability, using research-based factors and strategies.

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Products

We provide support, certification, and RFPs for product developers to incorporate elements of LVN’s whole child framework and adult learner model into their products to reach more learners.

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Impact

We work on multiple paths to have an impact on teaching and learning. Read more about collaborations with our product and practitioner partnerships and coalitions.

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Resources

We offer a variety of resources to help you understand learner variability, the research behind it, and innovative ways to support the whole child and adult learners.

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Adult Learner Model
  • Adults need a variety of 21st-century foundation skills.
  • Adults must see the benefits of learning tasks to engage.
  • Engaging in lifelong learning activities connects with general well-being.
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Culturally Responsive Practice
  • Understands and elevates the funds of knowledge of students who have been historically marginalized
  • Requires educators to create a sense of belonging for students and disrupt deficit mindset by focusing on students’ strengths
  • Centers the whole learner in their education journey to cultivate student agency
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The IEP Project
  • Promotes development of strength-based IEPs across a whole child spectrum.
  • Provides educators with curated research on factors that matter for learning and strategies to facilitate the creation of strength-based whole child IEPs.
  • Spurs a mindset shift for teachers and students from seeing deficits to tapping into strengths.
  • Integrates student voice on what matters for IEPs in order to create a sense of belonging and open the doors to success in and out of the classroom. (coming soon)
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