A big day for Digital Promise! Welcome, Jean-Claude Brizard!

NEW RESEARCH: Promote teachers’ #professionallearning and advancement with New America Ed’s deep look at the national landscape and best use of #microcredentials : newamerica.org/education-poli… #TeacherPD #teacherleadership

#KVECForward awarded the 200th micro-credential! Check out these (currently free) professional learning opportunities to engage in clinical professional learning and earn a badge to share your skill/competency. @NCITE4Kids #microcredentials microcredentials.digitalpromise.org/explore?page_s…

Truth Dewayne J. McClary. Today was a display of racism and hypocrisy of a magnitude I hope we will never see again. But it is up to all of us to ensure it doesn’t happen again.

Discover how #InclusiveInnovation can create and catalyze equitable opportunities for underrepresented stakeholders to lead, participate in, and benefit from education innovation: digitalpromise.org/inclusive-inno…

How to stop a coup in America? Recognize it is happening. We know it’s a coup if the government:

Stops counting votes;
Declares someone a winner who didn’t get the most votes; or
Allows someone to stay in power who didn’t win the election. opendemocracy.net/en/transformat…

'The power of the public is huge,' Dorothy Tucker NABJ. Speak out when you approve of journalism that tells stories that need to be told. And share critiques when stories miss the mark. Write, email, tweet, and tell your friends to, too. #knightlive

Our Research-Based Design product certification can serve as a reliable signal for educators and families looking for #edtech products based in research on learning. Check out the 35 products that have been certified: …ductcertifications.digitalpromise.org/certified-prod…

Effective coach-teacher collaboration, rooted in partnership, active learning, personalization, & sustained support, is at the heart of successful coaching. Our Coaching Playbook provides strategies for bringing these principles into your coaching program: digitalpromise.org/instructionalc…

On Wednesdays, starting July 22, #dpvils will host FREE live webinars on digital citizenship, family engagement, and rollout strategies during #COVID19 to help you prepare for a potential continuation of digital learning next school year. Register now: bit.ly/2Nm8CzZ

'When you talk to your kids about racism, don’t just frame it as an abstract concept divorced from lived reality; instead, engage in thoughtful, intentional training on what to do and how to behave.' newamerica.org/weekly/white-p…

We’ve identified critical elements of inclusive and equitable #digitallearning ecosystems, which informed the five competencies in our new Transitioning to Digital Learning #microcredentials stack: digitalpromise.org/2020/06/16/tra… #MC4Me #dpvils #LearningKeepsGoing

#AbolitionNow #RayshardBrooks

Stop calling for reforms that do not work and have never worked. #DefundPolice

There are a lot of anti-racist book lists and accounts from which white educators can learn. But their next step should be a recognition of their complicity in white supremacy—and doing the work to see and disrupt the systems that uphold it.
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“One either allows racial inequities to persevere, as a racist, or confronts racial inequities as an anti-racist. There is no in between safe space of ‘not racist.’” - Ibram X. Kendi. Ball State, protecting racist employees does not promote DEI, it supports racism. Odelia Younge

Violence against Black people by U.S. police is a human rights violation. Property damage is not violence. Loss of human life because of anti-Black racist police and vigilantes, racist healthcare systems, racist economic systems, THAT is violence. #naacp #blacklivesmatter

A litany for this moment.

We should be drawing a straight line of racist terror from #AmyCooper to this Minneapolis cop. Too often, she is the beginning. He is the end. #BlackLivesMatter #ICantBreathe

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This is great! These are critical conversations. #BadgeSummit #MC4Me

Join Chief Innovation Officer Vic Vuchic on Thursday at 3 p.m. ET for an EducatingAllLearners.org webinar discussion about Digital Promise’s criteria for selecting #edtech and our curated list of products designed for #SPED students: bit.ly/2Sb5VEs #learnervariability