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Digital Equity Champions for All Learners: Lytle High School P-Tech Program Builds Career-Ready Digital Skills

Lytle High School P-Tech Program students

Lytle Independent School District, TexasP-12

In the heart of South Texas, Lytle High School in Lytle Independent School District is championing digital equity to bridge economic, educational, and access divides through its Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH). The program, which began in the 2018-2019 school year, offers o...

Topic: Digital Equity

Lindsay Unified School District’s Transformative Journey

Lindsay Unified School District, CaliforniaP-12

In Lindsay Unified School District (LUSD) - a small, rural district located in the Central Valley of California - approximately 93% of the students identify as Hispanic/Latino and 42% as ELLs; 24% receive migrant services; and all students receive free meals. The district has committed to ensuring e...

Topic: NETP24

Developing a Portrait of an Educator in Rural Wyoming

Sheridan County School District 3, WyomingP-12

Sheridan County School District 3 (SCSD3) in Clearmont, WY is a rural K-12 district with 96 students. To help the district develop a Portrait of an Educator, they hosted facilitators from the University of Wyoming (UW), who asked teachers a series of questions, including:  What do students nee...

Topic: NETP24

A Rural District Finds Ways to Make Computational Thinking Accessible to Everyone

Talladega County Schools, AlabamaP-12

It took three years for Talladega County Schools, a rural Alabama district with a student population of 7,000 that is roughly 67 percent White and 28 percent Black, to develop computing pathways for its students. Talladega applied to participate in the National Science Foundation-funded Developing...

Topic: NETP24

Rural Kentucky District Empowers Teachers and Students to Be Active Learners

Logan County Schools, KentuckyP-12

Shifting to active student use can also mean ensuring active teacher learning. Logan County Schools, a rural, high-poverty school system in Russellville, KY, launched a digital transformation initiative in response to industry and community leaders who indicated that the local workforce needed gradu...

Topic: NETP24

Rural District Leverages their Portrait of a Learner Through Competency-Based Education 

Northern Cass School District 97, North DakotaP-12

Northern Cass School District 97, which serves 690 PK-12 students from six rural communities north of Fargo, ND, is implementing competency-based education founded on their Portrait of a Learner. In 2017, the district embarked on a transformation journey driven in part by a specific challenge faced ...

Topic: NETP24

Supporting Teacher and Students in Van Meter, IA

Van Meter Community School district, IowaP-12

Serving over 1,000 PK-12 students in a single building, the Van Meter Community School district in Iowa has committed to helping educators leverage active technology use to support learning goals. Supported by a team of instructional coaches that focuses on building relationships and meeting teacher...

Topic: NETP24

Digital Equity Champions for All Learners: Diné College Uses Culturally Responsive Strategies to Support Inclusion across the Navajo Nation

Dine College logo superimposed on an image of a cable being inserted into a laptop

ArizonaPostsecondary

Diné College is the first tribally controlled college in the United States. The college serves the far-reaching rural needs of the 400,000-member Navajo Nation, including 200,000 citizens beyond the Nation’s borders, through its main campus in Tsaile, AZ and six additional campuses and microsites...

Topic: Digital Equity

Digital Equity Champions for All Learners: Rural LISC’s Digital Connector Program Partners with Community Organizations

A staff person at Come Dream Come Build, a Rural LISC grantee in Brownsville, Texas, supports a community member with building digital skills. They are sitting in front of a laptop computer smiling.

P-12Postsecondary

In many rural regions, communities lack access to high-speed, reliable internet service and devices. However, even after these availability challenges are addressed, individuals require digital skills to effectively use technology to meet their goals and needs. Without these skills, rural communitie...

Topic: Digital Equity

Case Study: Community Partnerships in Ector County Independent School District

happy family sitting and looking at a laptop

Ector County Independent School District, TexasP-12

For Ector County Independent School District (ECISD) in rural West Texas, community partnerships have been integral to connecting learners, families/caregivers, and the community to affordable and available broadband. The beginning of the pandemic revealed that 39 percent of learners lacked either a...

Topic: Digital Equity