Results: Rural (22 Stories)
Digital Equity Champions for All Learners: Byte Back Fights Back the Digital Skills Gap
District of Columbia
Byte Back, a nonprofit organization founded in 1997 by civil rights activists who recognized the importance of technology in uplifting and empowering communities, provides adult learners furthest from opportunities with a pathway into the digital economy and society. In several cities, Byte Back acc...
Topic: Digital Equity
Gummi bears chocolate croissant cookie
Testing District, AlaskaP-12
Sweet lollipop dragée candy canes icing. Gummies cupcake gummi bears tart jelly beans sweet. Cotton candy gummi bears dragée brownie lollipop. Icing lemon drops cheesecake liquorice gingerbread sugar plum carrot cake muffin. Bonbon cotton candy chupa chups. Cake liquorice brownie biscuit macaroo...
Hollister R-V School District: OER Ambassadors in Rural Missouri
Hollister R-V School District, MissouriP-12
Hollister R-V School District, in Missouri, underwent sweeping changes to their curriculum ten years ago when use of Openly Licensed Educational Resources (OER) was implemented by its administration, and teachers were asked to phase out the use of textbooks. Although curated OER is readily available...
Bristol Tennessee City Schools: Personalized Educator Learning Provides Foundation for Personalized Student Learning
Bristol City School District, TennesseeP-12
Bristol Tennessee City Schools has just over 4,000 students enrolled in five elementary schools, a single middle school, one brick-and-mortar high school, and a virtual high school. The district’s free and reduced lunch rate is just over 53%; the rate at some of the four Title I schools is signifi...
Topics: 1:1 Initiative, personalized learning, professional learning
Bristol Tennessee City Schools: From Obstacles to Opportunities Through Digital Learning Conversion
Bristol Tennessee City Schools, TennesseeP-12
Bristol Tennessee City Schools has just over 4,000 students enrolled among five elementary schools, a single middle school, one brick-and-mortar high school, and a virtual high school. The district's free and reduced lunch rate is just over 53%, with the rate at some of the four Title I schools sign...
Topics: #GoOpen, Digital content, Openly Licensed Educational Resources, professional learning
How Williamsfield schools decided to #GoOpen
Williamsfield Community School District, IllinoisP-12
The Williamsfield School District is a small, rural district serving approximately 300 students in one building—Pre-K through 12th grade—with fewer than 100 students attending the high school. Located in a village of 650 residents, the school is the hub of the community. Several staff and facult...
Topics: #GoOpen, Digital content, equity, Openly Licensed Educational Resources
Professional Learning for Gifted Clusters
Dysart Unified School District, ArizonaP-12
The Dysart Unified School District serves nearly 26,000 students in the communities of Surprise and El Mirage, Arizona. We are a community dedicated to serving the needs of all children with high quality educational services, before-and after-school programs, community education classes, and service...
21st Century Learning Systems
Howard-Winneshiek Community School District, IowaP-12
The Howard-Winneshiek Community School District is a 426 square mile, rural NE Iowa district of 1.200+ students with 48% Free and Reduced lunch. The Challenge Howard-Winneshiek faces several challenges. Like much of rural Iowa and America, declining enrollment and budget concerns along with affordab...
Topics: 1:1 Initiative, community engagement
Warsaw Inquiry Learning Laboratory
Warsaw Community Schools, IndianaP-12
Warsaw Community Schools (WCS) is a rural school corporation of 7200 students located in northern Indiana. The school corporation has 52% free and reduced population, and a 20% English Language Learner population. Warsaw is known as the Orthopedic Manufacturing Capital of the World, the duck farming...
Topics: community engagement, equity
Beginning a Take-home 1:1 Program
Warsaw Community Schools, IndianaP-12
Warsaw Community Schools (WCS) is a rural school corporation of 7200 students located in northern Indiana. The school corporation has 52% free and reduced population, and a 20% English Language Learner population. Warsaw is known as the Orthopedic Manufacturing Capital of the World, the duck farming...
Topics: 1:1 intiatives, professional learning
