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Articles Archive

2019

Education Dive: Top K-12 News
Education Dive: Micro-credential Programs Offer Teachers More Personalized PD Opportunities
EdScoop: EdScoop Edition
SmartBrief: ASCD SmartBrief
EdScoop: For Better Edtech Purchasing, Ask These 4 Crucial Questions
Education Dive: Top K-12 News
EdSurge: Micro-credentials Could Be a Game Changer for Educators. But Hard Questions Remain.
Essentials: Research Insights for Setting Up Powerful Learning Environments
SmartBrief: ELA SmartBrief
Education Dive: Top K-12 News
SmartBrief: SmartBrief on Edtech
EdSurge: Want Transformational Teachers? Here’s Why Change Starts With Coaches
EdWeek Market Brief: A Principal’s Push for Data and Teacher Experimentation With Ed-Tech
Monterey County News: The Buzz 07.04.19
Buzzfeed News: “A Stepping-Stone Into Something Great” Pharrell Williams Grants 114 Harlem Grads an Internship
eLearningInside: Clever Library Passes 250,000 User Mark Offering Use and Info on Edtech Products
SatoshiNakamotoBlog: Executive Briefs | Tech & Learning
KyForward: Kentucky Hosts Third National Summit on Micro-credentials; Plans for Rural Education Association
CIO Applications: Professional Growth Guaranteed By Incorporating Micro-Credentials
Forbes: The Work of Ecosystem Enablers: Spreading Innovation In K12 Education
THE Journal: Report: The Right Policies Are Needed for Microcredentials to Succeed
The Hechinger Report: Future of Learning Newsletter
Getting Smart: Smart Update
ExcelinEd: Micro-Credentials: A Game-Changing Opportunity for Teachers’ Professional Growth
Education Dive: NYC Teacher Leadership Program Touted as International Model
Mass Live: Massachusetts School Districts Balance Students’ Need for Technology, Lack of Home Internet
Education Dive: Top K-12 News
The Hechinger Report: Future of Learning Newsletter
EdScoop: How Micro-credentials Can Encourage Professional Development Among Teachers
Getting Smart: Smart Update
Wheeling News-Register: Wheeling Country Day School Students Use Art to Learn About History
The Hechinger Report: In Utah, Personalizing Learning by Focusing on Relationships
The Hechinger Report: Future of Learning Newsletter
The Logan Banner: Remake Learning Programs Help Connect Families to WV Schools
SmartBrief: SmartBrief on EdTech Spotlight
Tap into Newark: Newark Schools First in State to Get New Verizon Technology Boost
The Herald-Dispatch: Remake Learning Programs Connect Families to Schools
The 74: Gregory: 4 Ways Teachers in Segregated Classrooms Can Desegregate Their Students’ Learning
eSchool News: The Importance of Jaggedness in Personalized Learning
KSAZ: Phoenix STEM Students Get New Learning Lab
Getting Smart: Beware of Bias and Value Variability As You Promote Persistence
EdTech Magazine: K–12 Professional Development Is Critical, So Make It Count
West Virginia Public Broadcasting: Initiative to Remake Learning Launches in W.Va.
Yahoo!: Tweens, Teens and Screens: 5 Important Lessons From a School Tech Coach
The Chattanoogan: Chattanooga To Serve As 1 of 9 National Regions To Launch Weeklong Celebration Of Hands-On, Free Learning Events
EdSurge: Remake Learning Days Celebrate Hands-On Learning Through Free Events
Planbook: Data Ethics, Collaboration and Accessibility: Edtech Trends 2019
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Remake Learning Days Expands Beyond Pittsburgh with Maker Spaces and More
Educational Technology Guy: Google Dynamic Learning Project Strategy Menu
Forbes: Beware Of Bias And Value Variability As You Promote Persistence
The Chattanoogan: WTCI To Host Free Events From May 10-18 For CHA Learning Days Initiative
KARK: LRSD Students and Teachers Partnering With Tech Companies for Middle School Program
The Hechinger Report: Future of Learning
Green Schools National Network: Verizon Innovative Learning Lab Sparks 21st Century Learning at Whitewater Middle School
Helena Reporter: HMS teacher named HP Teaching Fellow
Education Dive: ‘Change the World for the Better’: 4 Leadership Lessons Learned From an Innovative Superintendent
EdTech Magazine: CoSN 2019: To Scale Up Learning Innovations, Break Down Silos
EdTech Magazine: CoSN 2019: How Teachers Can Revolutionize the Future of Education
The Hechinger Report: Future of Learning
Forbes: A Proposal For The End of Standardized Testing
KET: Our Kids
The Hechinger Report: How to Unlock Students’ Internal Drive for Learning
Louisville Business First: YOUNG LEADERS: Sara Meierding
B-Town Blog: Highline Public Schools will Host National Network of Innovative School Districts
Tucson.com: Education Notes: TUSD Superintendent’s Contract Extended for 2 More Years
eSchool News: Helping ALL Students Feel Like They Belong
Getting Smart: How Learning Works: 10 Research-Based Insights
ASCD: Smartbrief
eSchool News: Take a Peek at the Research Behind Educator Micro-credentials
KQED: New Micro-credentials Provide Path to PBS Media Literacy Educator Certification
The 74: Why It’s Time to Start Using ‘Personalized Learning’ as a Verb, Not a Noun
Delta Sky: Apples to Oranges
Irving Weekly: All Irving ISD Middle Schools Join Verizon Innovative Learning Program
Education Week: Using Design Thinking to Set the Vision for a Career Superhighway
AZEDNEWS: Initiative Helps Middle Schools Integrate Technology with Instruction
Technical.ly: These DC-Area Middle Schools are Getting a Tech Upgrade from Verizon
Edutopia: A Teacher-Centric Approach to PD
XQ: Give Me Five
The Island Now: Mineola Superintendent Honored as Nassau BOCES Education Partner
KYMA: Challenge Based Learning: Thinking Outside the Box
280 Living: Brooks Positioned for Growth
Getting Smart: Smart Update
Education Week: 2019 Leader to Learn From: Roberto Padilla
Education Week: 2019 Leader to Learn From: Suzanne Lacey
Forbes: Education Micro-Credentials 101: Why Do We Need Badges?
WCPO: Roberts Paideia Academy, Sayler Park School Receive $3.6M Grant to Improve Technology
Education Week Market Brief: Superintendent of Calif. District Looks for “Data-Rich” Products to Fuel Education Transformation
Middletown Journal-News: Middletown Schools Got National Help Teaching Science Students by Winning Grant
FOX19 News: Cincinnati Public Schools Partners With Verizon’s Innovative Learning Program
WCPO: Roberts Paideia Academy, Sayler Park School Receive $3.6M Grant to Improve Technology
Mass Live: Program Gives Tablets, Internet Access to Holyoke Middle Schoolers
Education Technology: Tech Coaching Programme Launched in US Schools
Getting Smart: You’ve Heard Computers Have Low EQ, Not Anymore
KGUN: Three Local Schools to Get New Tech From Verizon
The 74: Gen Z Activists Rally Their Social Media Followers in Verizon Campaign to Close the Digital Divide
Tap Into Morristown: Morristown High School Girls in STEM Club Hosts 2nd Annual Girls in STEM Day for 8th Grade Girls
EdSurge: Instruct Newsletter
Big Deal Media: Suggested Resources for Addressing Challenges in Education
Education Week: Setting the Vision for Creating a Career Superhighway
EdScoop: ‘Challenge Map’ Puts School Needs First in Education Research
KQED: Coaching Teachers To Become Powerful Users of Classroom Tech
WAVE: Assignment Education: Newburg Middle School going high-tech
Education Dive: Schools Look to Proven Formulas for Innovation

2018

EdSurge: The Year in Podcasts: Top EdSurge On Air Episodes of 2018
Education Week: Why Experiential Education?
eSchool News: 3 Ways to Help Students Access Their Knowledge
Edtech Magazine: Q&A: Justina Nixon-Saintil on How Investment Can Improve Equity in STEM Education
EdScoop: Five Reasons Schools Need to Address Cybersecurity Now
Education Week: Digital Tools Are Everywhere–and Largely Unused–in Many Schools, New Analysis Shows
MediaNama: Facebook Launches Digital Skills Courses, to Train 5M Under ‘Community Boost’
FOX25 News: Verizon Innovative Learning
MultiBriefs: How Can Micro-credentials Be Used to Support Teacher Training?
India Today: Facebook is Now Helping Users Create Best Resume So They Get That Dream Job
EdScoop: 5 Things to Consider When Evaluating State Test Score Data
Forbes: Author Todd Rose: Learning Is Personal, So Is Success
THE Journal: Developing a Consistent Approach to Computational Thinking Opportunities
EdWeek Market Brief: Why Pilot Tests of K-12 Products Go Off the Rails in Districts
WVXU: As Middletown Schools Modernize, Students Get Energized
Huffington Post: Can Technology In The Classroom Foster A Love For Geometry?
THE Journal: Digital Promise Develops ‘Map’ to Help Schools Face Common Challenges
Chicago Tribune: Indian Prairie D204 Wins Achievement Grant
EdSurge: How Do You Prepare Students for Jobs That Don’t Exist Yet? Karen Cator Has Some Ideas.
Daily Herald: Dist. 204 Gets National Grant to Improve Students’ ‘Computational Thinking’
CBS 19 News: ACPS Appoints New Chief Technology Officer
Dallas Business Journal: Verizon Investing $9M in Dallas Schools to Equip Students with Technical Skills
EdTech Magazine: Data Driven Instruction: How Student Data Guides Formative Assessments
Education Week: K-12 Computational Thinking Initiative Gets $1 Million Boost From NSF
Desert News: Photos: Knowledge is the Wing Wherewith We Fly to Heaven
Good4Utah.com: Utah Schools for the Deaf and Blind host National Innovators
Forbes: How Video Games Help Students Level Up STEM Learning
The Island Now: Mineola Represented at International Conference
EdSurge: Understanding Learner Variability to Personalize Learning
Education Week: To Improve Teachers’ Use of Technology, Schools Try Hiring Coaches
EdSurge: Innovate 399
WebCenter11.com: Fairbanks School District Accepted into ‘League of Innovative Schools’
Springfield News Leader: Springfield Ties Plentiful for Missouri’s New Superintendent of the Year
EdSurge: Personalized Learning, Teachers Unleashed, and a Learning Analytics Partnership: The Story of Fresno Unified
TAPinto North Salem: Foundation Promotes Computer Science Program
TRIB Live: New Assistant Principals Bring Experience to Baldwin High School
Bucks County Courier-Times: Harry S. Truman High School Freshman to Appear at New York Festival
WTVC: Chilhowee Middle School Student Going to Global Citizens Festival
Education Week: The Promise & Challenge of Student-Centered Learning
The Rivard Report: SAISD Pairs With Verizon To Give Tablets, Internet Access to 3,100 Students
Daily Herald: Huntley Unit District 158 Again Selected to League of Innovative Schools
El Paso Herald-Post: SISD Accepted into National Network of Innovative School Districts
Journal-News: Middletown Accepted into National Network of Innovative Schools
EdWeek Market Brief: Can 5G Tech Transform Teaching and Learning? Verizon Issues Challenge to Nonprofits
Education Week: Helping CAOs Make the Shift to Personalized Learning
EdTech Magazine: 5 Key Areas of Technology Professional Development for Teachers
THE Journal: Closing Digital Divide Requires Focused PD to Support Teachers
Kentucky Today: Lee County Reflects Economic Importance of School Districts in Rural Ky.
Education Week: Apple Exec on Rewiring Education
Google: What We Learned From the First Year of the Dynamic Learning Project
Education Week: Educators’ Individual Influence on Curriculum Purchases Wanes as Cost Rises
Education Week: Creating a Career Superhighway
Bucks County Courier Times: New $140K tech lab opens at FDR Middle School in Bristol Township
Education Week: Educators Wary of Ed-Tech Company Research
WAFF48: Jackson County Schools Participate in Google-Sponsored Training Program
EdScoop: Digital Promise, with Help from Google, Coaches Teachers on Tech
Education Week: Characteristics of Effective Tech Coaching in Schools Explored in New Report
The Hechinger Report: Coaching Teachers on Tech
The Chronicle of Higher Education: How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Teaching
The Hechinger Report: A Year of Personalized Learning: Mistakes, Moving Furniture and Making it Work
TribLive: Baldwin-Whitehall Educational Foundation Helps Bolster Classrooms
Education Week: The 3 Questions Researchers Want Educators to Ask About Ed-Tech
Education Week: Better Together: Why Schools Should Work in Networks
EdScoop: Educators Struggle to Find Solid Research on Edtech
EdSurge: Where Personalized Learning Meets Social Emotional Learning
Education Week: U.S. Education Innovation Cluster Leaders Gather to Support Advancement in Teaching and Learning
Education Week: The Workshop School: Where Project-Based Learning Gives Back
EdSurge: Turning ‘Google Maps for Education’ From Metaphor to Reality
Education Week: 4 Key Characteristics of Research-Practice Partnership Work
Edtech Magazine: 3 Common Student Data Sharing Solutions — and How to Overcome Them
Salisbury Post: Dr. Lynn Moody: Renewal Gives Freedom to do What is Right for Our Children
Smart Brief: Report: All Students Learn Differently
The Daily Yonder: An Ipad Each: Project ‘Re-Energizes’ Rural School District
Forbes: Google Launches Learning Resources, Publishes AI Principles
ASCD SmartBrief: Report: All Students Learn Differently
THE Journal: Understanding Learner Variability
Anniston Star: Talladega County Teachers Learning to Use Technology More Effectively in Classroom
Language Magazine: Accelerating English and Math on the Go
EdSurge: Advancing Data Interoperability in Public Education—3 Pain Points and Their Solutions
Journal-News: Lakota Schools to Lead National Digital Learning Experiments
EdTech Magazine: How Microcredentials Help Educators Develop New Tech Skills
Education Week: Gifted Students ‘Make the Most’ of School in Alaska
THE Journal: Digital Promise Digital Badge Platform Offers 282 Micro-Credentials
Business Record: Facebook Announces Pledge to Train 1 Million by 2020
Quarterly Digital Magazine: The Equity Case for High-Quality Digital Content
Getting Smart: Smart Update
Education Week: Fresno Professionals Shifting Practices Towards Personalized Learning
The Herald: Q&A: Rock Hill Superintendent Talks Leading the District, State of Public Education
TimesNews: KCS teacher Professional Development Includes Micro-credentials, Google
KyForward: Ron Daley: KCEV Hosts Educators From Across Country at K-12 Micro-Credentials Summit
EdScoop: Washington District Puts Forward a Unified Approach to Digital Integration
EdSurge: Why Google Maps—Not Netflix or Amazon—Points to the Future of Education
The 74 Million: Commentary: 5 Things Educators Can Do to Make Ed Tech Research Work Better for Their Schools
Trib Live: South Fayette to Host Pixar Animations Studio Director for ‘Inspire Talk
Hechinger Report: New Online Option for Teacher Training
Education Dive: Virtual Network Gives Kentucky Teachers Access to Professional Learning
Salisbury Post: National Education League Tours Rowan Schools
Education Dive: Former Education Secretary Duncan: Parkland Teens are ‘Moving This Country’
EdScoop: Rural Schools in Kentucky Join Forces Online for Teacher Training
Corsicana Daily Sun: Code to the Future: CISD to Make Computer Science a Priority Course
THE Journal: Digital Promise Launches Student Immersive Video Project with UN and Oculus
The 74: Robots, Grit, Personalization: 13 Sessions You Don’t Want to Miss at This Year’s ASU+GSV Summit
Forbes: Nine Lessons From Brain Science From Dr. Melina Uncapher
Getting Smart: Storytelling for Sustainable Development
The Hechinger Report: More Money for Middle School Tech
The Intelligencer: Neil A. Armstrong Middle School to Be Featured in New Verizon Television Commercial
Education Week: Tech Giants Announce New Funding for 1-to-1 Devices, Computer Science Education
Hechinger Report: Don’t Go It Alone
The Washington Post: Lawrence K. Grossman, Top Executive at PBS and NBC News, Dies at 86
EdScoop: New Partnership Seeks to Tap Into Students’ Potential Using VR
Wired: Why Some Schools Pay More Than Others When Buying From Apple
Education Week: Schools Struggle to Use Data to Get Better
The Greer Citizen: Local Librarian, Students Get Creative
Education Dive: Stephensville ISD Digital Learning Director Stresses Importance of Pedagogy in 1:1
Education Dive: Day 2 at SXSWedu 2018: Paul Quinn College’s Turnaround, Data Interoperability and Learning Science
eSchool News: What’s happening at SXSW EDU
THE Journal: Non-Profit to Crowdsource On-the-Ground Ed Tech Effectiveness
Observer: A Year of Disruption? 7 Education Trends for 2018
The San Diego Union-Tribune: San Ysidro Middle Schools Get Laptops Under Google-Funded Initiative
Education Week: Putting Creativity at the Center of Student Learning
AP: Illinois District Turns ‘Snow Day’ Into ‘E-Learning Day’
Daily Herald: How Gurnee District 56 Turned a ‘Snow Day’ Into a ‘E-Learning Day’
EdSurge: What Every City Can Learn From Pittsburgh’s Pioneering K-12-Research Partnerships
THE Journal: Personalized Learning Is Not About Planting Students Behind Computers
Cleveland Daily Banner: Verizon Grant Makes Difference in Polk
Black Enterprise: Straight Outta Compton — A Stunning School Turnaround
The Island Now: Mineola Board President to Receive Education Partner Award
MultiBrief: K-12 Schools: The Need for Computational Thinking
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Students From South Fayette, Freeport Area High Schools Win FBI Opioid Awareness Contest
Getting Smart: What Policies and Practices Can Make Learning Personal for All?
The Almanac: New South Fayette Superintendent to Host Community Day
SXSW EDU: The Power of Technology, Teachers and the Future of Learning
Getting Smart: Smart List: 50+ Advocacy Organizations Making a Difference
Education Week: League of Innovative Schools: A Network Creating the Future of Learning
Education Week: A Year in the Making: The Second Lesson My New Year’s Resolution Taught Me about Next Gen Learning
Christensen Institute: 5 Big Ideas for Education Innovation in 2018
The Intelligencer: Student Teams Bolster Technology at Bristol Township Middle Schools
Argus Leader: Movers & Shakers: Jan. 2
The 74 Million: Analysis: Why School Districts Need a ‘Consumer Reports’ for Ed Tech
Observer-Reporter: Bringing World Experiences to South Fayette: Kenneth Lockette
STEAM Universe: Digital Promise: It’s Time to Weave Computational Thinking into K-12

2017

Education Week: The Year in Personalized Learning: 2017 in Review
EdSurge: What’s the Difference Between Project- and Challenge-Based Learning, Anyway?
Education Week: Montour Schools: Home of the Evolving Educators
TribLive: It’s a Very Chromebook Christmas at Carlynton
Education Week: South Fayette Schools: A Computational Carnival for Kids
Jacksonville.com: Duval Schools Working to Boot Up More Computer Careers for Girls
Getting Smart: How Can We Bring Coding into Authentic PBL?
EdScoop: Teaching Young People How to Think — and Thrive — in a Computational World
POLITICO: Morning Education
Getting Smart: Smart Update
EdSurge: Instruct
Hechinger Report: Maker Framework
WHYY: Can We make Purchasing Classroom Tech More Like Buying a Car?
Language Magazine: Literacy on the Line
Observer-Reporter: McGuffey Teacher One of Few in U.S. Chosen for Learning Project
Forbes: Cultivating Data Scientists: What Is EdTech Doing & What’s Left?
Education Week: Competency-based Micro-credentials Are Transforming Professional Learning
EdSurge: What Educators Can Learn from a Seven-Year-Old About Cultivating a Passion for STEM
T.H.E. Journal: Digital Promise and Facebook Team on Social Media Marketing Training for Adults
Getting Smart: Digital Promise and Facebook Developing New Micro-credentials Program
Boston Herald: Verizon, BPS Team to Give Out Free iPads
POLITICO: Education Department Awards $14M Innovation Grant to Personalized Learning Platform
Orange County Business Journal: UCI on $14.65M Literacy Team
T.H.E. Journal: Cyberlearning Research Report Peeks into Future of Ed Tech
The Almanac: South Fayette students show off invention at World Maker Faire
EdTech Magazine: Google Champions Teacher Tech Training with New Program
Wayne Post: Marion CSD accepted by League of Innovative Schools
T.H.E. Journal: Educator MOOC Adds Micro-Credentials on Personalized Learning
Times Herald-Record: Newburgh School District Chosen for Coalition of “Innovative” Districts
WHNT: Huntsville City Schools Lands Prestigious Membership Which Allows for National Innovation and Collaboration
North Orange Daily Voice: Newburgh Schools Accepted Into National Technology Coalition
EdWeek: Questions Linger Over Companies’ $300 Million Computer Science Pledge
Forbes: Taming The Wild West Of Digital Badges And Credentials
THE Journal: Online Guide Helps Students Learn How to Create Immersive Media
Trib Live: Baldwin-Whitehall district joins League of Innovative Schools
Innovators Point: New Buildings And New Curriculum Equals Student Success At South Fayette
EdSurge: To Leverage Tech in Writing Instruction, This Superintendent Channeled Justin Bieber
HuffPost: To Improve Teacher Training, States Try ‘Micro Credentials’
EdSurge: There’s No Such Thing as Being Bad at Math: How Neuroscience Is Changing the Equation
Irving Weekly: Verizon Provides Tablets and 24/7 Internet to Five ISD Schools
KSFY: Sioux Falls School District Accepted Into National School Network
TribLive: South Fayette Students Design Product to Curb Drug Abuse
Journal-News: Lakota Digital Learning Efforts Grow with Membership in National Group
Argus Leader: Sioux Falls District Accepted into National Network of Innovative Schools
WESA: One Way To Combat The Opioid Crisis? Using Your Fingerprint And A High-Tech Pill Dispenser
Education Week: Students Earn Digital Credentials for Adding New Skills
Class Tech Tips: Bring Financial Literacy to Your Classroom
Education Week: Factory-Model Change Won’t End the Era of Factory-Model Schools
District Administration: PD Moves Toward Mastery in K12
The 74 Million: Is Ed Tech Really Working? 5 Core Tenets to Rethink How We Buy, Use, and Measure New Tools
Herald Standard: Yough Middle Selected for Nationwide Google Pilot Program
The Citizen: Northgate Joins Technology Pilot Program
THE Journal: Schools Still Struggle with Data Interoperability
THE Journal: Digital Promise Ed Tech Pilot Resource Updated
Education Dive: Kentucky Ed Collective Addresses Teacher Training Needs By Developing Own Solutions
Hechinger Report: Rural Schools Turn to High-Tech Teacher Training Solutions
EdSurge: Making Personalized Learning Real
Education Dive: New CBE Toolkit Shares 10 Districts’ Best Practices
TribLive: Project Boosts Use of Technology at Penn Hills Middle School This Year
eSchool News: 10 Districts Share Their Invaluable CBE Secrets
EdScoop: Federal Government Must Devote More Resources to Edtech Research, Study Says
KPBS: Putting iPads, Laptops In The Hands Of Schoolkids Comes With Challenges
EdSurge: Top Education Researchers Jump Ship to Join Digital Promise
Education Week: Teaching With Tech Is Hard. Two New Efforts Aim to Help.
EdScoop: Google Funds Project to Deploy Tech Integration Coaches Nationwide
THE Journal: 50 Underserved U.S. Middle Schools Gain Coaches to Optimize Tech in Classroom
EdSurge: Google and Digital Promise Reimagine Teacher Tech Training with New National Program
Tryon Daily Bulletin: District One joins the Dynamic Learning Project, a National Educator Coaching Program
South Carolina GoUpstate: 2 District 1 Schools Selected for New Classroom Technology Program
Pennsylvania TribLive: Google, Edtech Experts Choose 11 Western Pa. Schools for National Pilot Project
Alabama Daily Sentinel: BMS joins Dynamic Learning Project
Alabama WAFF: Bridgeport Middle School Gets Technology Coach
Alabama WDEF: Alabama School Joins Dynamic Learning Project
Alabama WHNT: Bridgeport Middle School is One of 50 in the Nation a Part of the Dynamic Learning Project
Huntsville Rocket City Now: Five Huntsville Schools Chosen for Technology Education Program
Pennsylvania TribLive: Carlynton Among 11 Pittsburgh Area School Chosen for Education Project Involving Google
Pennsylvania TribLive: Back-to-School Stories, Teacher Layoff Laws & Google Ed tech Training: 5 Things to Know Today
American Libraries: Tech Power
Education Week: Family Literacy on Your Smartphone
Charlottesville Tomorrow: National Pilot Program for “Maker Learning” Finds Inspiration in Albemarle County
Newsradio WINA: Josh Weisgrau: Innovation in Public Schools
NBC 29: Albemarle Schools Hosting Maker Learning Leadership Pilot Program
CBS 19: Superintendents in Albemarle to Learn More About “Maker Movement”
The Daily Progress: Digital Promise Visitors at Agnor-Hurt
Today’s Motor Vehicles: News Roundup: GM Pushes STEM Education, Toyota Expands Production, Ford Offers Mustang Logo Option
Triple Pundit: GM Boosts STEM Education for Girls and Women
The News Wheel: GM Partners With Four New Nonprofits to Promote STEM Education
CNN: Exclusive: GM CEO Mary Barra Says the World Needs More Coders
Fortune: GM CEO Mary Barra Has a New Plan to Get More Girls Interested in STEM
Business Insider: GM Wants the Era of Self-Driving Cars to Be Led by Women
The Detroit News: GM Partners with 4 Groups to Boost STEM Education
EdTech Magazine: ISTE 2017: From VR Consumers to VR Creators
Getting Smart: Digital Promise Making Research Accessible to Educators
THE Journal: Digital Promise Makes Improvements to Interactive Ed Research Map
SAPOTEK: A Investigação em Tecnologias da Educação Pode Ser Vista em Mapa
EdSurge: Digital Promise Re-launches Research Map To Visualize Edtech Landscape
Education Week: Poor Students Face Digital Divide in How Teachers Learn to Use Tech
Education Week: ‘Toolkit’ Breaks Down K-12 Districts’ Shifts Into Competency-Based Learning
The Almanac: South Fayette High School Students Win National Competition
THE Journal: Digital Promise Global Seeks Alpha Testers for Learner Positioning System
Hechinger Report: Blended Learning
EdSurge: Real Life Learning: An Up Close Look at Competency-based Education
KCAW: To Teach Innovation, Sitka Schools Ramp Up Makerspace Program
THE Journal: Competency-based Education in Action: School Districts Share Advice
Education Dive: Rural Districts Band Together to Promote Innovation Across Schools
NCCE: Guest Post: Leading Innovative Schools: Some Views From 30k Feet
The Daily Journal: School, Businesses Seek to Close Digital Divide: Redwood City Community Collaborates to Help Improve Student Opportunities
EdSurge: The Hard Truths and False Starts About Edtech Efficacy Research
The 74 Million: $8 Billion a Year on Ed Tech, but Does It Work? Experts Call for Better Research at Unique D.C. Symposium
Education Dive: Are Micro-credentials the Key to Personalizing Professional Development?
EdSurge: Fusion: Bringing Personalized Learning Together
The 74 Million: #ShowTheEvidence: Building a Movement Around Research, Impact in EdTech
EdWeek: Ed-Tech Pilots That Appeal to Teachers
THE Journal: Digital Promise Selects Winners for filmMAKER Challenge
Education Week: Customizing Professional Development through Micro-credentials
Education Week: School Districts Update Professional Development
EdSurge: Grill That Edtech Company with These 6 Questions Before Buying Anything
San Diego Union-Tribune: Vista Supe Brings School Reform to Silicon Valley
Spartanburg Herald-Journal: Robot Helps Autistic Students at McCarthy Teszler Bridge Communication Barriers
Education Dive: VR Filmmaking Projects Offer Potential for Powerful Lessons in Empathy
The Hechinger Report: Using Virtual Reality to Step Into Others’ Shoes
EdSurge: Can a District Disrupt the Edtech Industry?
The Christian Science Monitor: Appalachia’s New Trail: Finding Life After Coal
Education Dive: Santa Ana USD Digital Transition Highlights Importance of Professional Learning
EdTech Magazine: Q&A: Melissa Dodd on Filling in the Access to Tech Gap
eSchool News: Why STEM Education Could Get a Transformative Makeover—Soon
Education Week: Helping Companies Identify Math and Science Practices Backed by Robust Research
Getting Smart: Smart List: 30 School Districts Worth Visiting
EdScoop: Lower Costs, Newer Tech Help Virtual Reality Become a Reality in the Classroom
Education Dive: Tuesday at SXSWedu: Higher Ed Access and Future-Ready Librarians
Hechinger Report: OPINION: Three misunderstandings about open resources
EdSurge: Expanding Access to Edtech Isn’t Enough. We Need to Make Sure It Works, Too
EducationNext: Competency-Based Learning for Teachers
Education Week: Patricia Deklotz: Recognized for Leadership in Innovation
Education Week: 18 Tips for Making Blended Learning More Student-Centered
KQED MindShift: Can Micro-credentials Create More Meaningful Professional Development For Teachers?
NottinghamMD.com: Eastern Tech, Parkville High VR films Receive Awards in National Competition
CBS19 Charlottesville: Monticello Students Nationally Recognized for Tackling the Issue of Bullying
EdScoop: Digital Promise Releases ‘Research@Work’ Video Series to Help Educators, Developers
Hechinger Report: How Can Schools Avoid Repeating Each Other’s Mistakes
The Huffington Post: Sparks of Change: A Look Inside Innovative Schools
Forbes: The 32 Million Disruptive Adult Learning Opportunities
Education Week: Are Microcredentials the Next iPhone?
eSchool News: Does Growing Student Diversity Mean a Renewed Focus on Personalized Learning?
EdSurge: Buying or Building Research-Backed Edtech? The Government Can Help
THE Journal: What’s Hot: 9 Major Ed Tech Trends for 2017
Hechinger Report: School of Me: Letting Students Study What They Want, When They Want is the Latest Education Trend
EdSurge: Finding ‘Personalized Learning’ and Other Edtech Buzzwords on the Gartner Hype Cycle

2016

Forbes: Developing Our Understanding Of Personalized Learning
KVPR.org: Student By Student, Lindsay Schools Erase Digital Divide
Veja (In Portuguese): “Technology Democratizes Learning”, Says Expert
eSchool News: 8 Steps to Evaluating Ed-tech Products
Education Dive: Superintendents Find New Ways to Network Nationwide
Edutopia: Networked: How Today’s Education Leaders Make Decisions
MeriTalk: Digital Promise Releases Ed Tech Pilot Framework
Education World: Framework Helps School Leaders Pilot New EdTech in Step-by-Step Process
THE Journal: Digital Promise Offers Free Framework for Tech Pilot Programs
EdSurge: Digital Promise Rolls Out Free Tool to Help Execute Pilot Programs
Educational Technology Guy: Ed Tech Pilot Framework – Excellent Resources for All Schools
EdScoop: 8 Steps to Pilot Smarter K-12 Edtech Product Tests
The Hechinger Report: Blended Learning
Education Week: Ed-Tech Pilots: New Resource Tries to Help K-12 Districts Get Them Right
The Hechinger Report: Blended Learning
EdSurge: Which Edtech Companies Are Producing the Best Research-based Products?
Edutopia: Pen Pals 2.0: Can Technology Foster Global Tolerance?
Black Enterprise: East Harlem School Kids Get iPads, Free Data Plans
WBAL-TV: Educators from across country visit Md. to see language program
Education Week: The OER Landscape has Something for Every District
NBC News: 18-Year-Old Millionaire, Robotics Scholar Teach Students the Power of Technology
EdWeek Market Brief: Conquering Teachers’ Tech Anxieties a Recurrent Theme at iNACOL
THE Journal: Parents Buy into Potential of Ed Tech; Most Don’t See Learning Results
Education Week: ‘Red Flags’ to Look for When Evaluating Personalized Learning Products
Education Week: Data Dive
Education Week: Checking Up on Personalized Learning Pioneers
Information Age: HP Opens UK Learning Studios to Tackle the Digital Skills Gap
Roswell Patch: Fulton Schools Join Group Promoting Innovation in Education
Kokomo Perspective: Kokomo Schools takes the Digital Promise
THE Journal: Digital Promise Network Encourages District Innovation
Fox 21 News: Two Colorado Springs Middle Schools Get Grant for New iPads
The Hechinger Report: What Does It Take to Make an Innovative School?
Getting Smart: Vancouver Pilots Comprehensive Open Math Curriculum
North Fulton Neighbor: Fulton County Re-joins League of Innovative Schools
eSchool News: 19 New Districts Join League of Innovative Schools
KSMU.org: Missouri Superintendent of the Year Goes to Springfield’s John Jungmann
The Hechinger Report: What Does It Take to Make an Innovative School? Here’s a List Five Years in the Making
MorristownGreen.com: Morris School District Chosen for National Innovation Program
Irondequoit Post: East Irondequoit Accepted Into League of Innovative Schools
B-Town Blog: Highline Public Schools Computer Science Efforts Receive National Praise
EdWeek Market Brief: Rhode Island Makes Its Pitch to Ed-Tech Developers As Lab for Innovation
EdWeek Market Brief: Personalized Learning Needed in Increasingly Diverse Classrooms, Report Says
Christian Science Monitor: What If Volunteers Had a Craigslist to Help Public Schools?
Times of San Diego: Vista High School Awarded $10M to Create ‘Super School’
Getting Smart: 10 XQ Super Schools Announced: Leading the Way in Rethinking High School
EdSource: Three California Schools Awarded $10 million Each to ‘Reimagine High School’
Education Week: 10 High School Redesign Projects Win $100 Million in ‘XQ Super School’ Contest
EdSurge: XQ Institute Announces 10 Winners of ‘Super Schools’ Competition
The San Diego Union-Tribune: Vista High Lands $10 Million Innovation Grant
EdScoop: Personalized Learning Can Aid Increasingly Diverse Classrooms
THE Journal: New Report on Personalized Learning Recommends Use of ‘Learner Positioning Systems’
Education Week: Personalized Learning in 2016: What’s Working, What’s Missing?
EdSurge: What the Savviest School Administrators Know About Education Technology
El Paso Herald-Post: Five El Paso ISD Middle Schools to Receive iPads
EdScoop: Carnegie Mellon University Researchers Dive Into Edtech Pilots at Innovative Districts
Stanford Social Innovation Review: Making School New
eSchool News: 3 Ways Innovative Schools Advance Maker Learning for All
Education Dive: How Schools are Getting Maker Ed to All Students
EdSurge: What Machine Learning and Draymond Green Have To Do With Education
District Administration: Micro-credentials Provide Highly Personalized PD
THE Journal: President Unveils New Initiatives During National Week of Making
EdScoop: Tech Enthusiasts Trek to Washington for National Week of Making
U.S. News & World Report: Building a Nation of Makers
Education Week: Can ‘Deeper Learning’ Drive Teacher Power?
Education Week: The ‘Maker’ Movement Is Coming to K-12: Can Schools Get It Right?
Education Week: Testing Tech Products in the Classroom
Getting Smart: Making Education Research Available to All
EdSurge: Pittsburgh: Providing the Blueprint for Citywide Maker Education
The San Diego Tribune: Education in the Digital Age
T.H.E. Journal: Digital Promise Launches Web Tool to Find Ed Research
EdScoop: New Tool from Digital Promise Connects Educators, Startups to Research
KQED Mindshift: Digital Promise Puts Education Research All In One Place
Education Week: Online Tool “Maps” Ed Research for School Districts, Business Leaders
WESA 90.5: Avonworth ‘Maker Space’ Encourages Innovation And Creativity
TribLive: South Fayette Middle School a high-tech hub
WESA 90.5: Western PA School Districts Promise To Support Maker Movement
Hazard-Herald: Hazard Independent Among 17 in East Kentucky’s KVEC Region Nationally Recognized for Education Innovation
Remake Learning: How Digital Promise is Helping Sow Networks of Learning Innovation, One Region at a Time
EdSurge: Heard & Overheard on Day 1 of ASU+GSV Summit
The Hechinger Report: Are Ed-Tech Financiers Beginning to Listen to Teachers?
Education Week: Educators’ ‘TED’ Talks-Style Forum Leads Up to ASU+GSV Summit
Education Dive: Is Micro-credentialing the Future of K-12 PD?
Education Week: Can ‘Micro-Credentialing’ Salvage Teacher PD?
Make: White House Backs National Week of Making, Building High School Makerspaces
EdSurge: White House and Barack Obama Scale Up TechHire Initiative, Push for More Makerspaces in K-12
EdScoop: Contest offers prizes to educators for sharing practices in classrooms
Getting Smart: League of Innovative Schools District on Improving Low-Income Student Outcomes
Education Dive: Creative approaches can make coding more fun, accessible
eSchoolNews: 4 Ways Forward-Thinking Districts are Inspiring More Students to Code
The Huffington Post: School District Invests in “Erasing the Look & Feel of Poverty,” Sees Big Returns
The New York Times: Bridging a Digital Divide That Keeps Schoolchildren Behind
Education Dive: Measuring the costs and benefits of new ed tech
eSchoolNews: The major momentum behind micro-credentials
NorthJersey.com: Clocking-in to class from home: Local districts put virtual school days to the test
The Seventy Four: WATCH: Inside South Carolina’s Campaign to Empower Students with Technology #EDlection2016
The Hechinger Report: U.S. schools have more computers than ever. But what are they doing with all that (expensive) technology?
TribLive: South Fayette schools grab Obama’s attention
The New York Times: Forward Tinkering: Colleges Make Room for Maker Spaces
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: AIU, 4 county schools receive White House recognition for computer science education
NJ.com: Elizabeth Public Schools recognized by White House for computer science initiatives
Salisbury Post: RSS recognized in White House announcement
T.H.E. Journal: BloomBoard Intros Curated Collections with Micro-Credentials
The Hechinger Report: Forget snow days. How one school district uses this time to teach students — and fill their bellies with food
Getting Smart: What You Need to Know When Developing Micro-Credentials
Bucks County Courier Times: Bristol Township ‘Tiger Techs’ get a glimpse of technology on the horizon
District Administration: Outlook: Deluge of mobile devices

2015

Education Week: The K-12 Marketplace: What to Look for in 2016
EdScoop: Privacy, broadband, No Child Left Behind among big topics of 2015
Education Week: New Tool Helps Districts Evaluate Ed-Tech Companies’ Claims of ‘Evidence’
T.H.E. Journal: UC Davis and Digital Promise Report on How To Run Better Ed Tech Pilots
Getting Smart: 30 Districts Worth Visiting 2015
Education Dive: Survey examines barriers to evaluating purchasing ed tech
Education Week: Districts Struggle to Judge Ed-Tech Pilot Projects
EdSurge: Digital Promise’s Guide to Running Effective Edtech Pilots
Education Week: Little consistency in how districts judge ed-tech through pilot tests, study finds
EdScoop News: Micro-credentials, the new gold star for teachers, show concrete evidence of learning
Getting Smart: Rethinking Educator Professional Development with Micro-credentials
eSchool News: How micro-credentials could have a chance
T.H.E. Journal: New partnership will provide micro-credentials to teachers
Getting Smart: EdTech 10: It’s a Small World
Hechinger Report: To the future and beyond: A new class of innovative schools joins a growing network of educators who share best practices
eSchool News: 22 districts join network of innovative school systems
Education Week: Once Micro-credentials are Explained, Teachers are Willing to Pursue Them, Study Finds
Bangor Daily News: Maine teachers to get online access to professional development
Bright: What Kind of Smart Are You? How “maker” education is priming our kids for the kind of intelligence that matters most
Getting Smart: Micro-credentials for Personalized, Powerful Professional Learning
Education Week: Family partnerships are key to digital equity
Kokomo Tribune: Digital Promise coaching aims to enhance Kokomo Schools’ technology use
The Huffington Post: The Global Search for Education: The New UN Agenda – What Is the Role of Education?
eSchool News: 4 things innovative districts do to improve graduation rates
District Administration: Edtech purchasing: What CIOs need to know
FedScoop: Education app developers overlook a target audience: adult learners
Philadelphia Inquirer: Philly’s adult literacy problem
Hechinger Report: Tablets and other tech offer ways to track teacher performance beyond just standardized tests
Education Week: Regional Partnerships Emerging to Support K-12 Innovation
FedScoop: Education innovation “clusters” coming to Chicago
Knoxville News Sentinel: Bearden, Carter middle move to one-to-one technology
Education Week: Amazon Top Pick for Contract to Create N.Y.C. Schools’ e-Book ‘Marketplace’
MIT Technology Review: Lessons Learned
Bright: How Should We Approach Education’s Digital Divide?
Maui News: Middle school students get a tech boost with iPads donated by Verizon
Hechinger Report: Let students lead a digital learning transformation, and you might be surprised by what happens next
Buzzfeed: Baltimore’s Challenge: Buy Computers For 100,000 Kids, And Don’t Mess It Up
Education Week: Schools, Organizations to Compare Notes on Education Innovation Clusters
Quartz: These third graders spend 75% of their day on iPads, and their teacher doesn’t mind a bit
Stephenville Empire-Tribune: SISD on its way to digital transformation
Edutopia: Deeper Learning in Practice
StateScoop: Schools rethink how to pilot edtech programs
Education Week: Student Tech Use at Home Is Tricky Balancing Act
Getting Smart: Preparing Leaders for Deeper Learning
T.H.E. Journal: New Report Shares Personalized Learning Guidance
Marketplace: Giving every kid a computer and a connection
Education Week: Johns Hopkins’ Education School Reviews Educational Products for Companies
California Schools magazine: After-School Connections
Time: The Next Experiment in Education
Education Week: K-12 Librarians’ Roles Shift to Meet Digital Demands
The Columbian: School district hosts national meeting
Education Week: Four Lessons for Today’s Education Leaders
Hechinger Report: As market surges, schools struggle to find the best tech products
PBS Newshour: Tech giants battle for classrooms
Education Week: Staging Better Trial Runs of Ed-Tech Products in Schools
Politico: Many students wired at school feel digital divide at home
The Atlantic: When Students Can’t Go Online
Bucks County Courier Times: Tablet roll out finally taking shape in Bristol Township middle schools
Education Week: Digital Promise to Create Network of Education Innovation Clusters
EdSurge: Targeting Deeper Learning with Micro-Credentials
Alliance for Excellent Education: Culture Shift: Making Innovation Contagious
Anniston Star: What apps are most useful in classrooms?
EdSurge: How to Make Micro-Credentials Matter
Raleigh News & Observer: Carroll Middle School students to receive personal tablets

2014

McClatchy: School buses bring Wi-Fi to impoverished families
The Atlantic: Can a School’s Tech Program Take a Rural Town out of Poverty?
Hechinger Report: Preparing for the future: Summits to help schools make smart technology choices
WRAL-Raleigh: Carroll Middle among 8 schools nationwide to win tablets
Los Angeles Times: How L.A. Unified got its iPad contract
Levittown Now: Truman STEM Program Helps Area Students Succeed
KQED Mind/shift: How Rural Schools Paid for Students’ Home Internet to Transform Learning
Tampa Bay Times: When it comes to technology, Florida schools struggle to keep up with students
MediaBistro: AAP Honors Educational Publishing Leaders
Getting Smart: 25 Districts Worth Visiting
The Columbian: Teacher-librarians fill high-tech role
Hechinger Report: Is the next Khan Academy star a teacher in D.C. Public Schools?
Education Week: League of Innovative Schools’ Leaders Share Ideas, and Common Frustrations
Education Week: Ed-Tech Vendors Often in Dark on District Needs, Study Shows
Education Week: Who Calls the Shots in School Purchasing? Vendors, K-12 Officials Disagree
Buzzfeed: School Districts Are Really Bad At Buying Technology
EdSurge: Bringing Order and Transparency to a Dysfunctional K-12 Marketplace
Politico: Ed-Tech Blues
Daily Northwestern: Two District 65 schools receive iPads through national learning program
Edutopia: Leading and Learning for a Successful Digital Transformation
The Coast News: iPad donations are a game-changer for Vista students
Education Week: Making the Big LMS Buying Decision
St. Paul Pioneer Press: iPad training for east metro teachers targets personalized lessons
Al Jazeera America: The digital divide in American Schools
Education Week: Middle Schools’ 1-to-1 Tablet Deployment to Be Studied
KQED Mind/shift: What Are the Most Powerful Uses of Tech for Learning?
USA Today: Technology access lacking, uneven in Miss. schools
EdSurge: So You Think You Can Educate Adults?
USA Today: A cheaper, faster version of a college degree
Education Week: It’s Time: Connecting What Students Need and What Entrepreneurs Create
EdSurge: Digital Promise Kicks Off Micro-Credentialing With Summer Pilot
Slate: Tablet-Sized Teachers
Hechinger Report: Digital education is supposed to transform public education, but many schools can’t even get online
eSchool News: 7 big problems–and solutions–in education
Hechinger Report: Wanted: More gutsy leaders to drive schools into digital age
KQED Mind/Shift: 7 Big Hurdles In Education and Ideas For Solving Them
EdSurge: League of Innovative Schools Adds Nine New Members
FOX Business News: Online Education: Can it Solve the Employment Problem?
National Public Radio: For The Tablet Generation, A Lesson In Digital Citizenship
Education Week: ‘Learning Menus’ Empower Students to Tailor Curriculum
T.H.E. Journal: 5 Best Practices of Tech-Leading Superintendents
The Economist: Wiping out the blackboard
EdSurge: Obama Spotlights Needs of Young Adult Learners

2013

Huffington Post: Obama ConnectED Initiative Aims To Get Classrooms Online
EdSurge: Karen Cator: “Close the Digital Learning Gap”
AL.com: Education nonprofit praises Baldwin County schools’ Digital Renaissance
U.S. World and News Report: The Latest Tools for Teaching STEM: Video Games
Education Week: Ed. Leaders Balance Risk-Taking and Failure
Education Week: Building a District Culture to Foster Innovation
Education Week: K-12 Leaders Shift From Protectors of Status Quo to Change Agents