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Universal Wi-Fi Access
Thirty-nine percent of families in Ector County Independent School District had no internet access or cell phone internet access. To provide universal access, the district provided families with MiFi devices and connected with local cable services...
Reflecting on Hops, Skips, and Leaps at Taos Academy Charter
In this Insight, Elizabeth LeBlanc shares some of the hops, skips, and leaps Taos Academy Charter has made during the COVID-19 pandemic to facilitate effective teaching and learning – and examines what they'll take forward with them.
Podcasts: TLA's "What Will We Take With Us?"
Explore various podcasts in our leadership series, "What Will We Take With Us?" to hear how education leaders rose to tackle the challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic, and how they're working to take what they've learned into a future that supports...
Digital Promise Digital Equity Checklist
The Digital Equity Checklist serves as a guide to support district leaders in meeting the needs of every student with a direct focus on meeting the needs of all students. This checklist highlights six primary categories that include and extend...
Digital Equity: Digital Equity in the Classroom
In our urgency to remove barriers to digital equity, conversations often start with the “boxes and wires” of technology itself. However, even if every student (and their family) gains equitable access to powerful devices and high-speed internet,...My Tech High
My Tech High is a personalized virtual program, administered by K-12 public schools across ten states. Students in the program are full-time public school students and can take all of their courses through the My Tech High platform tuition-free.
Laurel Springs School
Laurel Springs School is a private, tuition-based online school for K-12 students. The school attracts students from across the U.S. and the world, with a focus on learners whose schedules and needs may not align with traditional seat-time...
From Digital Access to Digital Equity: Critical Barriers That Leaders and Policymakers Must Address to Move Beyond “Boxes & Wires”
This report urges leaders and policymakers to address five critical barriers to digital equity, moving beyond a sole focus on internet access and devices. These barriers include digital redlining, the digital use divide, privacy taxes, adult bias,...
Engaging Spanish-Speaking Families to Strengthen Edtech Implementation
Gill-Montague Regional School District’s Director of Technology partnered with a Spanish interpreter and community liaison to support Spanish-speaking families. The efforts of the liaison facilitated stronger engagement with edtech among...
How Do Edtech Products “Stack” Up?: Improving Quality in Virtual and Hybrid Learning Through Technology
This resource distills learnings about what must be true for edtech to promote virtual and hybrid learning program quality and offers leaders a series of questions to ask themselves when considering their own edtech products’ ability to do so.
Supporting Student Nutrition in Virtual and Hybrid Settings: Lessons from Addressing the Digital Divide
Virtual learners often can't access the same level of nutritional support as their in-person peers. This insight helps virtual and hybrid school and system leaders tackle this challenge.