School districts continually prioritize the need to provide training and ongoing support to educators and school staff to help them meet students’ and families’ evolving needs. Oftentimes, though, challenges related to educator buy-in and implementation come with new initiatives, especially those that involve adopting new curriculum or technology and requiring intensive training and professional learning.
In addition to the costs associated with professional learning resources, districts also commonly struggle to provide teachers and school staff enough time for instructional planning and professional learning outside of teaching hours, or to provide sufficient classroom coverage when professional learning opportunities occur during the school day.
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Teachers and school staff share ways in which their school and district leaders can better support their ongoing needs and improve their capacity to enact practices that lead to powerful learning for students.
Explore the tiles below to learn more about projects and resources that aim to strengthen educator professional learning.
Digital Promise Micro-credentials leverage digital credentialing technologies to support learners and organizations.
The Learner Variability Project seeks to build on learning sciences research to better understand and address the needs of the whole learner, from PreK to adulthood, to personalize instruction.
This resource empowers all levels of educators to learn about and strengthen their capacity to engage students in computational thinking.
Digital Promise shares best practices for ongoing professional development for educators around leveraging technology.
The Learner Variability Navigator helps educators find research-based strategies to personalize learning experiences in order to understand and address the whole learner.
This paper defines learner variability and explains how a holistic understanding of a learner is needed to personalize instruction.
Learn about Digital Promise’s IEP Project and access additional resources to write and implement individualized education plans (IEPs) grounded in whole-child, strength-based approaches.
This teacher co-designed 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 whole-child IEPs.
The Bristol Township School District team identified the challenge of addressing the role trauma plays in student mental health through a deep dive with school and community members including Bristol Cares Coalition, student, staff, and family surveys, and with their Equity Leadership Council.
The Learner Variability Navigator helps educators find research-based strategies to personalize learning experiences in order to understand and address the whole learner.
This paper defines learner variability and explains how a holistic understanding of a learner is needed to personalize instruction.
Learn about Digital Promise’s IEP Project and access additional resources to write and implement individualized education plans (IEPs) grounded in whole-child, strength-based approaches.
This teacher co-designed 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 whole-child IEPs.
The Bristol Township School District team identified the challenge of addressing the role trauma plays in student mental health through a deep dive with school and community members including Bristol Cares Coalition, student, staff, and family surveys, and with their Equity Leadership Council.
The Ciena Solutions Challenge fosters student agency by providing resources for educators to facilitate Challenge-Based Learning experiences where students explore big ideas, ask thoughtful questions, and create solutions to challenges that align with their interests and local contexts.
The Learning Studios Project Library offers resources to help students design solutions to local challenges while developing skills in design thinking, engineering, and digital communication.
The YouthMADE Festival is a global, two-week celebration of creativity and innovation that showcases youth-led projects in STEM, advocacy, activism and community service, performing and fine arts, media, and more.
Edcamp: Maker Learning brought educators together to share strategies for creating engaging, hands-on learning activities.
This Resource Library supports students and teachers with activities to support their journey with the Ciena Solutions Challenge.
Educators share ways to engage students in Challenge-Based Learning experiences where students design thoughtful solutions to local challenges.
The Ciena Solutions Challenge fosters student agency by providing resources for educators to facilitate Challenge-Based Learning experiences where students explore big ideas, ask thoughtful questions, and create solutions to challenges that align with their interests and local contexts.
The Learning Studios Project Library offers resources to help students design solutions to local challenges while developing skills in design thinking, engineering, and digital communication.
The YouthMADE Festival is a global, two-week celebration of creativity and innovation that showcases youth-led projects in STEM, advocacy, activism and community service, performing and fine arts, media, and more.
Edcamp: Maker Learning brought educators together to share strategies for creating engaging, hands-on learning activities.
This Resource Library supports students and teachers with activities to support their journey with the Ciena Solutions Challenge.
Educators share ways to engage students in Challenge-Based Learning experiences where students design thoughtful solutions to local challenges.
Project Topeka brought together cutting-edge tools and high-quality instructional resources from industry leaders to support educators teaching argumentative writing.
Research-based perspectives offer lessons for writing instruction and teacher professional learning.
The project is designing open-access curricular supports to deepen discussions in world history. Curricular materials will be available summer 2026.
Project Topeka brought together cutting-edge tools and high-quality instructional resources from industry leaders to support educators teaching argumentative writing.
Research-based perspectives offer lessons for writing instruction and teacher professional learning.
The project is designing open-access curricular supports to deepen discussions in world history. Curricular materials will be available summer 2026.
Explore the variety of free and fee-based resources that Digital Promise offers to help CTE educators boost their knowledge and skills around global competence and to encourage students to do the same—from sample project plans that are geared toward integrating global content into courses to self-paced, online training modules for educators and students.
Curated by Digital Promise, these professional development and free resources to assist CTE educators with incorporating global skills into their courses.
This quick start and discussion guide helps educators learn about and build capacity to engage students in computational thinking.
Edcamps centered on understanding the adoption and use of new technologies in the classroom and how practitioners can influence the researchers and developers of those technologies.
Explore the variety of free and fee-based resources that Digital Promise offers to help CTE educators boost their knowledge and skills around global competence and to encourage students to do the same—from sample project plans that are geared toward integrating global content into courses to self-paced, online training modules for educators and students.
Curated by Digital Promise, these professional development and free resources to assist CTE educators with incorporating global skills into their courses.
This quick start and discussion guide helps educators learn about and build capacity to engage students in computational thinking.
Edcamps centered on understanding the adoption and use of new technologies in the classroom and how practitioners can influence the researchers and developers of those technologies.
This program supports teachers with free professional learning focused on digital skills, remote learning, and digital coaching with opportunities to earn Digital Promise micro-credentials.
ELP initially grew out of a collaboration among National Education Association affiliates in seven Midwestern states that came together with the goal of better supporting and retaining early career teachers.
The DLP pilot launched in 2017 to increase educational equity and impactful use of technology through instructional coaching.
Peer networks and professional learning communities provide valuable resources and support systems for educators.
This academic paper helps explain to educators how both computational thinking and traditional ways of solving problems can co-exist in students’ problem solving toolkits.
This program supports teachers with free professional learning focused on digital skills, remote learning, and digital coaching with opportunities to earn Digital Promise micro-credentials.
ELP initially grew out of a collaboration among National Education Association affiliates in seven Midwestern states that came together with the goal of better supporting and retaining early career teachers.
The DLP pilot launched in 2017 to increase educational equity and impactful use of technology through instructional coaching.
Peer networks and professional learning communities provide valuable resources and support systems for educators.
This academic paper helps explain to educators how both computational thinking and traditional ways of solving problems can co-exist in students’ problem solving toolkits.
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