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Lead for Digital Equity with These Community Engagement Strategies

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Through communication, innovation, and partnerships, Louisa County Public Schools is leading the way for digital equity. Like most rural communities, this created a significant digital divide when COVID-19 forced schools nationwide to close in March 2020. Communication. Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast.

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9 Ways to Enable Equitable Education in Your School

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Addressing the digital divide requires a human-centered approach In the early days of the pandemic, schools raced to provide devices and hotspots to students, responding to concerns over a widening digital divide. They are motivated,” observes Zimmer, commenting on the topic of diversity in library collections.

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Addressing the Digital Access Gap: One District’s Success

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CCISD has been striving to bring its vision of digital equity to life through a broad approach to meet all student needs, including devices, curriculum integration, and processes and systems to access and effectively use technology easily. CCISD serves as a model for other nationwide communities seeking to narrow the digital divide.

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Good News from Our Nation’s Capital

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The district is in the middle of a digital equity revolution, being led by a particularly sharp Director of Education Technology and Library Programs, Dewayne McClary. ELI is a comprehensive three-year plan to close the digital divide and empower every learner through investment in technology?, It includes $4.6

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Developing Systems for Effective, Equitable Education for All Students

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First, districts need to address the digital divide/homework gap in meaningful ways. Even before the pandemic and the shift to distance education, learning extended beyond the classroom. Another aspect of the digital divide includes teachers. Vrain Valley School District (CO).

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Funding Edtech with the E-Rate Program and Grants

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Investment in these areas and a strategy for obtaining E-Rate discounts should be part of every district’s five- or ten-year technology plan, so that schools can continue to have reliable service that accommodates changing needs. In 2010 the FCC appointed her to the USAC board representing the nation’s schools and libraries on ERATE.

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State Leadership Working Towards Broadband Access for All

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While states are mainly providing strategies and not funding, there is a growing movement to create innovative solutions like wi-fi on buses and community partnerships to provide wi-fi access at home. ENA delivers comprehensive technology solutions supported by exceptional customer care to education and library institutions across the nation.