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| May 12, 2026 | CheckIT Learning Renames its Neuroscience-Based LMS to Cleo | The brain-based edtech platform by CheckIT Learning becomes Cleo, highlighting the cross-system capabilities of its neuroscience-trained AI model
WHITE BEAR LAKE, Minn., May 12, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- CheckIT Learning, a global edtech s... |
| Sep 18, 2025 | Distinctive Schools Accepted into Largest-Ever National Network of Innovative School Districts | Distinctive Schools joins 34 other districts as members of the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools to advance innovation and excellence in education. CHICAGO, IL, UNITED STATES, September 18, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Distinctive ... |
| Jun 18, 2025 | Why Districts Are Turning to Esports to Reach More Learners | The energy was electric: Three teams of students from three neighboring school systems faced off in a high-stakes competition, their colorful jerseys and team pride on full display. But this wasn’t your typical sporting event; students were... |
| Mar 6, 2025 | Digital Promise Launches Collaborative Innovation Studio | New Service Supporting Schools and Communities To Accelerate Learning Innovation
The Collaborative Innovation Studio helps you meet the needs of your learners and keep pace with the speed of technological change.”
— Dr. Michael NaglerWASHIN... |
| Jul 18, 2024 | Digital Promise and Edthena Partner to Strengthen Science of Reading Literacy Instruction Using AI-Powered Coaching | The AI Coach by Edthena process + Digital Promise resources helps all teachers build upon their Science of Reading training. This PD provides research-backed strategies for elementary literacy.
Teachers can access 100s of research-based str... |
| Jul 16, 2024 | New Guidance from TeachAI and CSTA Emphasizes Computer Science Education More Important than Ever in an Age of AI | The guidance features new survey data and insights from teachers and experts in computer science (CS) and AI, informing the future of CS education.
SEATTLE, July 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, TeachAI, led by Code.org, ETS, the Internation... |
| Mar 18, 2024 | Playful Pedagogy: Gamer Types and Board Games for Inclusive Learning | Educators often find themselves exploring innovative approaches to enhance student learning, and one particularly creative pathway is integrating games and playfulness into the learning environment. Navigating this terrain requires a delica... |
| Aug 16, 2023 | Personalizing Language Arts Education With AI Tools: A Teacher's Perspective | The integration of AI tools in English language arts (ELA) instruction has emerged as a potentially transformative pedagogical approach that could redefine the traditional landscape of education. Tools, such as AI-powered writing assistants... |
| Jun 14, 2023 | Can AI Help Teachers With Grading? | A perennial question as technology improves is the extent to which it will change—or replace— the work traditionally done by humans. From self-checkout at the grocery store to the ability of AI to detect serious diseases on medical scans, w... |
| Apr 19, 2023 | MindPrint Learning Announces Research Partnership with Digital Promise | PRINCETON, N.J. (PRWEB) April 19, 2023
MindPrint Learning, the only online platform that enables schools to enhance their MTSS practices through affordable, objective cognitive data, today announced a major partnership and $2 million in fin... |
| Dec 22, 2022 | Five Tips To Increase Your EdTech Sales | It's important for sales people to listen more than they talk when selling, so that they can truly ... [+] understand potential buyers' problems and how they can help.getty |
| Dec 13, 2022 | 95 Phonics Core Program® Earns Product Certification from Digital Promise for Research-Based Design for Instructional Learning Products | "A child’s path to literacy is one of the most important in their lives, and we take it very seriously."
LINCOLNSHIRE, Ill. and WASHINGTON (PRWEB) December 13, 2022
95 Percent Group LLC, the trusted source for comprehensive, prove... |
| Oct 13, 2022 | Virtual Conference Provides Free Professional Learning Opportunity for Educators on Election Day | WASHINGTON, DC / ACCESSWIRE / October 13, 2022 / Educators can learn directly from leading edtech experts on Tuesday, November 8, at the inaugural Elevating Innovation virtual conference presented by Digital Promise and Verizon. This profes... |
| Aug 15, 2022 | Teacher Wallet & Open Credential Publisher Awarded Learning and Employment Record (LER) Inclusive Design: Product Certification | Product Certification awarded to Teacher Wallet and Open Credential Publisher "We are incredibly proud to be leaders in building inclusive solutions that give opportunity to all." Kimberly Wilson Linson, Director of Credential Eco... |
| Aug 9, 2022 | When the Variability of All Learners Is Addressed | As an education community, we are beginning to understand the depth of the pandemic’s impact, especially on our students of color, our English Language learners and our students with disabilities. But we are also beginning to understand the... |
| Jul 21, 2022 | States Partner On Micro-Credentials To Personalize Teacher Learning | digiLearn digiLearn |
| May 23, 2022 | Are Personal Learning Networks the Key to Keeping Teachers? | Educator shortages continue to be a top concern for many. And the trend of teachers leaving the classroom is unlikely to reverse course anytime soon.
In a recent National Education Association survey of roughly 3,600 educators, more than ha... |
| May 10, 2022 | New Research Looks for Better Ways for Schools to Recruit Teachers of Color | America is getting increasingly diverse. But you wouldn’t know it by looking at the makeup of public-school teachers, who are overwhelmingly white.
Over the past two years, the nonprofit Digital Promise has been leading research into why sc... |
| Mar 28, 2022 | Can Personalized Learning Be Scaled to Ease Teacher Burdens and Close Achievement Gaps? | Schools are confronting vast achievement gaps among students and an exhausted teaching force. Some say it’s time to finally commit to scalable personalized learning. Not only do we need to meet kids individually where they are, but we also ... |
| Mar 17, 2022 | Branching Minds Awarded Research-Based Design Product Certification | NEW YORK (PRWEB) March 17, 2022
Branching Minds, the digital platform and national leader on Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) and Response to Intervention (RTI) is proud to share it has earned the Research-Based Design Product Certifi... |
| Mar 1, 2022 | Vivensity's Teen SEL Program Awarded Learner Variability Certification, For Transparent Edtech Assurance | PALO ALTO, Calif. (PRWEB) March 01, 2022
Vivensity has earned the Learner Variability Product Certification from Digital Promise. This Product Certification serves as a rigorous, reliable signal for district and school administrators, educa... |
| Nov 2, 2021 | Shmoop Heartbeat™ Recognized for Helping School Districts Do Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) The Right Way | Shmoop Logo “I’ve known this kid for years, and I had no idea that he was at home with two siblings as mom was at work. … So now I get it.” – Middle school teacher, New Jersey
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (PRWEB) November 02, 2021
Since Shmoop’s found... |
| Sep 14, 2021 | Digital Promise : and Ciena Launch New Global Design Challenge | WASHINGTON, Sept. 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital Promise and Ciena (NYSE:CIEN) are excited to announce the launch of the Ciena Solutions Challenge, a new global design challenge where educators around the world can submit student-led proj... |
| Aug 23, 2021 | Educators Share Positive Stories of Hybrid and Virtual Learning in the Ciena Solutions Challenge Roundtable | |
| Jun 22, 2021 | IXL Awarded Research-Based Design Product Certification from Digital Promise | SAN MATEO, Calif., June 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- IXL, the personalized learning platform used by more than 12 million students, announced that it has earned the Research-Based Design product certification from Digital Promise, an independen... |
| Jun 4, 2021 | StrongMind : Hybrid Solution Awarded Research-Based Design Product Certification | CHANDLER, Ariz., June 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- StrongMind's innovative Hybrid Learning Solution has earned the Research-Based Design Product Certification from Digital Promise. The Product Certification serves as a rigorous, reliable signal ... |
| Apr 27, 2021 | FEV Tutor Live 1:1 Online Tutoring Awarded Research-Based Design Product Certification | WOBURN, Mass. (PRWEB) April 27, 2021
FEV Tutor’s Live 1:1 Online Tutoring has earned the Research-Based Design product certification from Digital Promise. The product certification serves as a rigorous, reliable signal for district and scho... |
| Mar 29, 2021 | Diverse Leaders are Changing Education | I was 20 years old and wearing my best suit. I woke up early so I could make the one-hour trip to Midtown Manhattan to begin my Wall Street internship orientation. The Sponsors for Educational Opportunity team planned an intense training. W... |
| Feb 17, 2021 | The Lifelong Learner Project, Powered by Teachers Selected as ACE Blockchain Innovation Challenge Winner | Empowering teachers to do what they do best. Teach! “The Lifelong Learner Project introduces this technology at an influential level, the teacher, and that community will drive adoption into our next generation of learners.”
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| Feb 16, 2021 | 4 Ways to Build a Strong Professional Learning Network for Innovation and Growth | Problem solving is a key skill in teaching. But in the past year, especially, the problems in need of a solution seem to have grown exponentially.
How do we teach kids online and in person at the same time? How do we build a strong communit... |
| Feb 8, 2021 | Fast Learner: How An Educational Software Firm Successfully Adapted To Pandemic Restrictions | Nurse with tablet computer. Many states now have waivers to help nursing students use online ... [+] simulations instead of in-person testing.getty |
| Jan 13, 2021 | What’s The EdTech Vaccine? 10 Design Principles | EdTech Photo by Julia M Cameron from Pexels |
| Jan 7, 2021 | Shmoop Heartbeat Awarded Learner Variability Product Certification | Shmoop Logo The Shmoop Heartbeat is major progress for education, social emotional learning, students, & teachers everywhere. – Shmoop's CEO, Andy Rahden
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (PRWEB) January 07, 2021
Shmoop Heartbeat has earned the Learner... |
| Dec 21, 2020 | How To Leverage Faculty To Increase Student Engagement | Brian Kathman founded Signal Vine in 2013 and currently serves as its CEO. He has spent most of his career building technology companies. |
| Dec 16, 2020 | Digital Promise Partners with RANDA Solutions to Deliver Blockchain Based Teacher Wallet | Empower teachers to do what they do best. Teach. “We have always valued developing a micro-credential ecosystem that puts educators in the driver’s seat of their own learning,” said Odelia Younge.
FRANKLIN, Tenn. (PRWEB) December 16, 2020
R... |
| Nov 25, 2020 | Digital Credentials: A Better Way To Capture And Communicate Learning | Learner's Lifelong Learning JourneyBadgr.com |
| Nov 2, 2020 | We Build Boring Schools, Then We Put Them Online--Science Has The Fix | Bulldog Tech, Evergreen School District Tom Vander Ark |
| Jul 6, 2020 | Digital Promise Brings Edcamps Into Its Tent | It began with a box.
For years, organizers of “Edcamps,” a popular brand of informal professional development gatherings for teachers, received a resource kit sent by their host organization, the Edcamp Foundation. The box included nametags... |
| Nov 12, 2019 | Data Interoperability Provides a Path Toward Equity—4 Lessons Learned | Nestled at the foothills of the high Uinta Mountains lies Evanston, Wyoming—home to Uinta County School District #1 (UCSD #1). At an elevation of 6749 feet above sea level, the school district is accustomed to seeing things from a different... |
| Sep 23, 2019 | Why Data Interoperability Is Critical for Districts—and How It Transforms Student Learning | Imagine that you are going on a journey. You’re headed somewhere you have visited a few times before, but your memory is fuzzy on the exact directions to take—so you use your navigation app. As you set out, it’s easy to become distracted by... |
| May 9, 2019 | Remake Learning Days Celebrate Hands-On Learning Through Free Events | Welcome to Remake Learning Days Across America (RLDAA), a celebration of nearly 850 hands-on learning events continuing to the end of May on topics relating to arts, making, the outdoors and technology. The majority of events are free, loca... |
| Sep 30, 2018 | Personalized Learning, Teachers Unleashed, and a Learning Analytics Partnership: The Story of Fresno Unified | How does a fifth grader feel getting ready to do a live edtech demo at their local school board meeting?
If you are Ryan Fernandez of Fresno Unified School District, you take such challenges in stride. At last February’s Board meeting, 10-y... |
| Jun 18, 2018 | Advancing Data Interoperability in Public Education—3 Pain Points and Their Solutions | Remember your paper mache days? Globbing a bunch of unrelated newspaper scraps together to assemble a lumpy self-portrait? Now imagine that in order to evaluate what you learned, your teacher has to carefully deconstruct your mask, read eac... |
| May 14, 2018 | Why Google Maps—not Netflix or Amazon—Points to the Future of Education | “He who controls the metaphor controls the debate.” – David Gergen
Among the many lessons I learned from my time working for David Gergen, an advisor to four U.S presidents and now the director of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard... |
| Feb 19, 2018 | Jefferson Education Accelerator Winds Down, Rebrands to Focus on Edtech Reviews and Procurement | For the past three years, Bart Epstein has been busy running the Jefferson Education Accelerator, a “research accelerator” based at the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education. As a part-investment, part-research firm, the accele... |
| Jul 28, 2017 | Google and Digital Promise Reimagine Teacher Tech Training with New National Program | While the government might be pulling funding from teacher training programs, private organizations are stepping up to fill the gap. This week, Google, in concert with Digital Promise and EdTechTeam, announced the start of the Dynamic Learn... |
| May 3, 2017 | Fusion: Bringing Personalized Learning Together | At its core, personalized learning means giving every student opportunities to learn in ways that connect and support them to the fullest extent possible. It’s a tall order—and scores of resources and organizations have emerged to help scho... |
| Apr 15, 2017 | Can a District Disrupt the Edtech Industry? | Fail fast. Think big. These are the words that edtech startups live by, but schools and districts generally operate at a different pace. When it comes to our children’s education, there’s no room for failure—fast or slow—and layers of burea... |
| Apr 1, 2017 | Reality Is Messy, Labs Aren’t: How to Make Research-Backed Education Work | If education researchers hope to see more of their findings influence everyday learning and instruction—and they desperately do—then their best bet may be to encourage education technologists to hone their design research skills.
Researcher... |
| Feb 23, 2017 | BloomBoard Appoints New CEO, Restructures Focus Around Micro-Credentials | A landmark report from TNTP, a nonprofit organization, estimated that the 50 largest U.S. districts invest $8 billion annually on professional development. Some of those teachers spend upwards of 150 hours every year on training sessions, w... |
| Jan 6, 2017 | Can Edtech Support—and Even Save—Educational Research? | There is a crisis engulfing the social sciences. What was thought to be known about psychology—based on published results and research—is being called into question by new findings and the efforts of individual groups like the Reproducibili... |
| Nov 9, 2016 | Which Edtech Companies Are Producing the Best Research-Based Products? | When edtech entrepreneurs design and develop their products, high-quality research is not always at the top of their minds. After all, it takes extra time, money and effort for edtech developers to use research as they design and develop th... |
| Sep 14, 2016 | XQ Institute Announces 10 Winners of ‘Super Schools’ Competition | What event can bring together the likes of Jill Biden, MC Hammer, Geoffrey Canada, Nancy Pelosi, and a crowd of educators, students and investors? The official announcement of winners of the XQ: Super School Project.
In September 2015, Laur... |
| Apr 19, 2016 | Heard & Overheard at the ASU+GSV Summit | This post has been updated with news and observations from the second day of the conference.
“Inequality is the parent of revolution.” The quote, attributed to Aristotle, occupied one of the flurry of slides accompanying Michael Moe’s welco... |
| Mar 26, 2016 | Deeper Learning Demands Deeper Leading—and Technology Can Help | Knowledgeable. Versatile. Creative. Engaged.
Being college- and career-ready is no simple task. It’s time for all American students to take part in deeper learning.Even in technologically rich environments, deeper learning can only achieve ... |
| Mar 25, 2016 | From Research to Practice: The Difficult Journey for Edtech Entrepreneurs | The ever-expanding role technology plays in schools has contributed to the explosive growth of a marketplace worth over $8 billion in the U.S., according to Software and Information Industry Association.
Along with this growth, however, hav... |
| Mar 7, 2016 | Why Traditional Education Reformers Struggle With Blended Learning | For years education reformers have fought to create new, publicly-funded schools to drive change. The rise of blended learning has accordingly vexed many of them because much of its growth is happening in classrooms inside existing public s... |
| Jan 26, 2016 | Bloomboard Releases Micro-Credentials Offering and 'Pinterest for Teachers' | Bloomboard—the same tool known for its competency-based professional development platform and resource library—is now getting into the micro-credentials business.
Today, the company announced a new offering that helps teachers access curate... |
| Dec 9, 2015 | Grading the 2010 National Education Technology Plan | My, how times have changed. Mostly.
The first National Education Technology Plan was published in 1996, when Netscape ruled the web browser market, Apple was an afterthought, and America Online barraged our mailboxes with silvery streams of... |
| Dec 9, 2015 | An Architect of the Last National Edtech Plan Reflects on Five Years' Progress | In November 2010, almost a year to the day after I joined President Obama’s administration, my office at the U.S. Department of Education released the National Education Technology Plan (NETP) – just the third such plan in our nation’s hist... |
| Oct 16, 2015 | The Missing Link to Open Educational Resources: A Search Engine | Andrew Carnegie believed “There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as a free public library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.” To actualize this belief, he d... |
| Oct 2, 2015 | What the White House Press Corp Didn’t Ask About Arne Duncan’s Resignation | The 3:30pm ET press conference on October 2 was billed as “President Obama Makes a Personnel Announcement and Answers Questions.” The questions raised by the press, however, were not pertinent to the big news.For Further EdSurge Coverage:
W... |
| Apr 15, 2015 | Announcing the Second Annual Digital Innovation in Learning Awards | Around the world, countless people and organizations are taking steps to ensure all students get a high-quality education by leveraging innovative technology and teaching practices. Many of them make a major impact that isn’t widely recogni... |
| Jan 7, 2015 | Building and Scaling an Edtech Company | Since the turn of the second Millennium, the onslaught of the dotcom bubble, and the rise and scale of the Internet, thousands of businesses have been born in order to solve real problems in education using technology, software and web serv... |
| Dec 10, 2014 | 200 (Newsletters!) And Counting | Today marks the 200th consecutive EdSurge-Innovate newsletter that we’ve delivered--that’s every week since “edition 001” was sent to 50 friends way back on February 16, 2011. It’s a streak that’s perhaps only rivaled by Wilt Chamberlain's ... |
| Nov 25, 2014 | That's a Wrap! Photos from DILAs Gala and Silicon Valley Summit | Here at EdSurge, we run pretty lean when it comes to decor. We eschew fancy picture frames for blue masking tape. We assemble our own whiteboards and desks; one is made from cardboard. We entertain ourselves with a soccer ball.
So it was no... |
| Nov 13, 2014 | Bringing Order and Transparency to a Dysfunctional K-12 Marketplace | Buying edtech products in the K-12 market is a bit like Chatroulette: most have a vague understanding of what they want, few know what to expect, and almost no one is satisfied.
That’s the impression reinforced by a study, “Fostering Market... |
| Oct 30, 2014 | Announcing the Winners of the 2014 Digital Innovation in Learning Awards! | EdSurge and Digital Promise are thrilled to announce the winners of the first “Digital Innovation in Learning Awards,” or DILAs. The awards celebrate teachers, administrators and ed-tech organizations who every day demonstrate exemplary pra... |
| Jun 30, 2014 | EdSurge-Digital Promise Showcase Education Leaders Through New Awards | ATLANTA, GA—EdSurge and Digital Promise are thrilled to announce the launch of the first “Digital Innovation in Learning Awards,” or DILAs, to highlight exemplary practices of teachers, administrators, and edtech organizations that support ... |
| Jun 4, 2013 | IDEO, Digital Promise Dissect Education Technology Procurement | With an avalanche of new incubators, companies, products and services on the edtech market, the issue of how big districts can work with small startups merits serious attention.
But, as nonprofit Digital Promise admits, "procurement ca... |
| May 28, 2013 | NYC DOE Announces Gap App Winners, Outlines Next Steps | On Tuesday, the New York City Department of Education took another step towards collaborating with outside developers on innovative school software by announcing the winners of its first ‘Gap App’ software challenge. KnowRe, Mathalicious, H... |
| Apr 16, 2013 | Karen Cator to Take CEO Job at Digital Promise | Digital Promise just got, oh, say, a little more promising.
Karen Cator, formerly Director of the Office of Educational Technology in the U.S. Department of Education, has announced that she will take the job of chief executive at Digital P... |
| Tool: Learning Assembly’s Pilot Toolkit | For anyone looking to test innovative teaching practices and edtech tools to find what works, welcome to the Learning Assembly pilot toolkit. It has resources to test products, processes and programs.
The Learning Assembly, supported by the... |
| Framework: Verizon Innovative Learning Schools-Digital Promise Guidebook | Gaps exist between high-performing and under-performing schools for multiple reasons, including differences in access to funding and resources, community commitment, and the willingness of school leaders to innovate. Digital Promise was cre... |
| Tool: Learning Assembly’s Pilot Toolkit | For anyone looking to test innovative teaching practices and edtech tools to find what works, welcome to the Learning Assembly pilot toolkit. It has resources to test products, processes and programs.
The Learning Assembly, supported by the... |
| Resource: Digital Promise Adds Professional Services | Digital Promise, a non-profit using technology and research to spur innovation and expand learning opportunities, has created Digital Promise Professional Services to provide personal help to educators as they transform their schools and di... |
| How Microcredentials Can Boost Professional Learning | Microcredentials provide an opportunity for educators to pursue focused professional learning at their own pace, and on their own schedules. But they also raise a lot of questions for teachers and schools.
It’s an exciting and daunting topi... |
| Network: EdWeb’s Research and Evidence Community | The Research and Evidence in Edtech hosted on edWeb is a free, virtual clubhouse or professional learning community for educators, company representatives, entrepreneurs and researchers. edWeb supports such online communities across a varie... |
