Digital Promise shapes the future of learning and advances equitable education systems by bringing together solutions across research, practice, and technology.
Effective learning experiences are grounded in a deep understanding of how people learn. Our research contributes to and translates findings across education and learning science, informing the design and implementation of strategies, tools, and technologies that support each learner across grade bands, settings, and life stages.
We investigate a wide range of educational topics from early childhood through postsecondary, emerging areas and technologies like artificial intelligence and computational thinking, and more. We also focus on building the capacity for districts and communities to engage in equity-centered research and development. Across the organization, we engage with partners to put research into action and make learning better.
Education improves when the right people are in the room together. Through national and international networks, we connect education leaders, researchers, and edtech developers who share evidence, apply promising approaches, and tackle the challenges that matter most to learners.
Connecting, convening, and working together on shared goals helps move from vision to reality. Our League of Innovative Schools is a national network of more than 170 forward-thinking K-12 school district superintendents who together solve the challenges facing our schools through innovation and technology.
Our Verizon Innovative Learning Schools is a network of more than 600 low-income middle schools that provide 1:1 mobile devices, connectivity on and off campus, and professional development, to create an environment that prepares students for college and the jobs of the future.
Every learner deserves clear pathways through school, into careers, and beyond. We partner with K-12 systems, postsecondary institutions, employers, and communities to co-create flexible and adaptable opportunities that help learners build real skills, earn credentials that matter, and shape their own futures.
Engaging learners with relevant, inspiring, and challenging work helps them develop agency in their learning—the power to make choices and take action—for the rest of their lives. Learners of all backgrounds and identities should have the knowledge and resources to participate fully in society, education, and the workforce.
Every lasting improvement in education begins somewhere—a classroom, a school, a community that has found what works. Digital Promise partners with education systems, schools, and communities to define, implement, and sustain Powerful Learning experiences, building the conditions for those breakthroughs to ripple outward and reach every learner.
Across all of our programs and initiatives, we use the Powerful Learning Framework as a shared vision to support educators and learners in creating meaningful learning experiences with technology.
