Digital Promise

JULY 3, 2025

Our Work Reports Blog About Jobs Guest Post: 3 Guiding Principles for Responsible AI in EdTech July 3, 2025 | By Sava Opacic and Srdjan Perovic In April, Digital Promise launched its newest product certification, Responsibly Designed AI , which helps districts make more informed procurement decisions. Responsible AI isn’t optional.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2025

Pete Just is the generative AI project director for the Consortium for School Networking, a professional association for K-12 edtech leaders. Districts arent only thinking about AI as part of teaching theyre exploring how it can help with a wide swath of jobs.

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ED Surge

JUNE 20, 2025

While edtech vendors race to integrate AI into every aspect of teaching and learning, educators are drawing clearer boundaries: AI should save them time, not replace their judgment. When generative AI entered classrooms, it promised a revolution. For many teachers, it delivered an avalanche of tools instead.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 26, 2025

At a time when many edtech solutions are rapidly integrating artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, it’s important for developers to think critically about how they are doing so responsibly. Each blog post is written by an edtech developer whose product was among the first cohort to earn the Responsibly Designed AI certification.

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ED Surge

JUNE 18, 2025

“Watching students from across Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach come together to solve real-world challenges using Minecraft Education was inspiring,” says Carlos Vazquez, founder of Miami EdTech. “It Partner with local edtech nonprofits, higher ed institutions and industry experts to create authentic experiences.

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Digital Promise

JULY 8, 2025

Our Work Verizon Innovative Learning Schools --> Tags Verizon Innovative Learning Schools Digital Equity Digital Learning & Technology Powerful Learning Author Alexis Mueller is the assistant principal at Frontier School of Excellence.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

During the last 12 years, she has inspired other teachers to embed edtech effectively in their classes, encouraging students to work together, create and move around the room! Recently, EdSurge spoke with Kelly Mitchell, Digital Learning and Teaching Facilitator with Onslow County Schools in North Carolina.

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ED Surge

APRIL 2, 2025

Similarly, interoperability standards like Caliper Analytics and Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) ensure that edtech tools can work together without disruption when institutions switch vendors or adopt new technologies. What work still needs to be done?

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The federal government calculates that 92 percent of school districts used federal relief money to purchase edtech, including devices and other expenditures related to digital access such as software. Even if New Mexicos solution is unique, its plight is common across the country. Theres some reason to think the new reality is setting in.

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Digital Promise

JULY 11, 2025

Edtech platforms can use response-time analytics to personalize supports and flag disengagement or fatigue in real time, enabling more targeted interventions. Related Articles July 10, 2025 Guest Post: How We Respond to the Unique Challenges of AI in EdTech Development By Husni Almoubayyed July 9, 2025 Maps, Barns, and Fun!

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2025

Are Schools and Edtech Companies Ready for the Digital Accessibility Deadline? By Daniel Mollenkamp California made a controversial policy decision last year when it adopted a new math framework that recommends waiting until ninth grade to start students in algebra. By Daniel Mollenkamp In April, the U.S.

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ED Surge

MAY 14, 2025

The pledge was started to convince edtech companies to adopt transparency standards for working with K-12 schools. Its an artifact of the early days of the edtech industry, when many states had yet to create laws around how these companies handle data. The Student Privacy Pledge a voluntary promise to protect student data ceased.

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ED Surge

APRIL 9, 2025

Research from one association shows that 73 percent of school edtech leaders say that student data privacy is not listed as part of their job description and 17 percent have never received any relevant privacy training. Many were relying on the federal government to develop edtech or AI policies.

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Digital Promise

JULY 17, 2025

Our Work --> Tags Digital Learning & Technology EdTech Procurement and Implementation Powerful Learning Research Author Babe Liberman is Project Director of Community and Facilitation at Digital Promise. Get involved with the community. Sign up to learn from these districts, share your own story, or join this critical work.

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Digital Promise

JULY 1, 2025

Jean-Claude Brizard , president and CEO of Digital Promise, echoed this systems-level view in the “ Organizational, District, and Policy Views on AI in Education ” AMA: “AI for the most part, is going to show up in edtech tools in classrooms and in schools, and most districts do not have a cogent edtech strategy…at the state and district level…please (..)

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Digital Promise

JULY 9, 2025

Related Articles July 8, 2025 Student Choice Isn’t a Perk—It’s a Pathway to Deeper Engagement By Alexis Mueller July 3, 2025 Guest Post: 3 Guiding Principles for Responsible AI in EdTech By Sava Opacic and Srdjan Perovic July 1, 2025 Three Key Insights from the AI Education Exchange “Ask Me Anything” Series By Jasmine McCallum , Kelly McNeil (..)

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Recommended Resources: 1EdTech Digital Credentials Summit 2025 Blueprint for Developing a Comprehensive Learner Record Intentional Collaboration: Designing Credentials Processes with SMEs in Mind University of Georgia CLR University of Central Oklahoma STLR AI in Hiring: A Double-Edged Sword for Resumes and the Future of Work Increasing the Value of (..)

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2025

Recommended Resources 1EdTech Digital Credentials Summit 2025 Blueprint for Developing a Comprehensive Learner Record Microcredentials That Matter: Building Trust Through Quality and Review Building a Future of Skills: How Microcredentials are Shaping Education The Role of Digital Credentials in Student-Centered Education AI in Hiring: A Double-Edged (..)

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ED Surge

JULY 11, 2025

So eventually, Leibson turned to a “navigator,” an edtech tool that helps parents sort through early education options. The similarities are at least strong enough that one edtech company says it can help parents across both markets. They also lack adequate regulations, according to some researchers.

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ED Surge

APRIL 24, 2025

Thats an application that many teachers are already enthusiastic about, according to Pete Just, the generative AI project director for the Consortium for School Networking, a professional association for K-12 edtech leaders. This has brought them back additional time into their week, he says.

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Digital Promise

JULY 15, 2025

Related Articles July 11, 2025 Making Extended Time Work for All Students By Xin Wei July 10, 2025 Guest Post: How We Respond to the Unique Challenges of AI in EdTech Development By Husni Almoubayyed July 9, 2025 Maps, Barns, and Fun! Alessandra Rangel is a Project Manager on the Learning Experience Design team at Digital Promise.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Show your work has taken on a new meaning and importance in the age of ChatGPT. As teachers and professors look for ways to guard against the use of AI to cheat on homework, many have started asking students to share the history of their online documents to check for signs that a bot did the writing.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Walberto Flores EdTech Coordinator, Highlands International School San Salvador Artificial intelligence has entered our classrooms — sometimes invited and other times not — leaving educators to ask essential questions about its implementation and impact.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Evaluating and validating tech tools takes time and energy — resources that are always in short supply. An overwhelming variety of tools are available, each claiming to improve student outcomes in different ways, making it difficult to discern which will have the most meaningful impact.

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Edthena

JUNE 24, 2025

In the recent feature “ 10 Brilliant Uses of Edtech in 2025, ” Edutopia highlights how first-year special education teacher Allison Thompson of Adams 12 Five Star Schools leverages the VC3 video coaching platform to capture authentic classroom moments and foster a community of continuous learning.

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Edthena

JUNE 6, 2025

We’re excited to share that, thanks to your support, Observation Copilot has been honored with the SmartBrief EdTech 2025 Readers’ Choice Award , a powerful endorsement of the impact this tool is making in schools across the country.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

They want to implement innovative edtech tools in the classroom but don’t necessarily have the time to research and evaluate solutions before procurement and classroom implementation. Enter the concept of curated online marketplaces — a potential game-changer in the edtech landscape.

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Edthena

OCTOBER 25, 2024

In the news EdTech Digest recently spotlighted Edthena’s latest video coaching innovation in their “Cool Tools” feature , showcasing the newly launched VC3 video coaching platform. For more on VC3, check out our blog here.

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Digital Promise

JULY 10, 2025

The Responsibly Designed AI product certification from Digital Promise aligns well with our principles and has helped us think through best practices more thoroughly

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TCI

JULY 3, 2025

The app vetting rubric was developed by the 1EdTech community, which includes leaders from K–12 and higher education, government agencies, continuing education providers, edtech suppliers, and other stakeholders. About TCI TCI is an award-winning K–12 publisher founded by teachers, for teachers.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

What resulted was a great resource that I plan to share below on specific edtech tools that can assist special education (SPED), math, and reading teachers. Both the math and reading sessions focused on how edtech could be used during independent work, formative assessment, and pedagogically-sound blended learning.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 24, 2023

When it comes to technology in education, there is a natural tendency to see it as just another thing that somebody must do. In other cases, it is viewed as being more work. Let me tackle the second issue first. When we try implementing anything new, there is always a learning curve.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 27, 2015

The Rigor and Relevance Framework —an action ­oriented continuum that describes putting knowledge to use—gives teachers and administrators a way to develop both instruction and assessment while providing students with a way a way to project learning goals.

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Education Elements

JANUARY 6, 2016

My predictions over the last few years have come true. It has been demonstrated that any classroom can implement blended learning and, when done well, get superior results. Personalized learning is now part of an increasing number of district and school strategic plans.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Mitigating edtech related issues rests on authentically engaging as many learners as possible. Sound pedagogy consists of effective instructional strategies that involve all learners, a focus on higher-order thinking skills, scaffolding techniques , construction of new knowledge, and relevant application of thinking.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 26, 2015

As I am driving my SUV and family guinea pig from Staten Island, NY to Texas (more to come on this later) I took the opportunity, when my father was at the wheel, to peruse my professional Facebook page. As I looked through my updates I noticed that I had posted quite a few quotes, ideas, thoughts, and opinions on leading change.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 12, 2020

Edtech Tools for SPED, Math, and Reading - Extensive list of tools with mini-descriptions on how they can be used to support distance learning. While all of these represent fantastic options, it is important to take into consideration ways to impart greater engagement and ownership through application and construction of new knowledge.

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