Last week, we launched our Remote ESOL project site and presented learnings, promising innovations, and policy recommendations in a national webinar. Watch the recording here. Our website holds information for teachers, administrators, policy makers, and researchers interested in leveraging educational technology to support enrollment, attendance, achievement, and completion in remote ESOL programming for adults. The information here stems from six months of research done to uncover examples of promising practices and programming most of which sprung up in response to the COVID-19 pandemic – when remote instruction and distance education were the only modalities of learning possible in many places.

Keys to Impact in Digital Navigator Services: Adaptability, Trust, and Awareness, a three-part blog series is a collaboration between the EdTech Center at World Education and the ExCITe Center at Drexel University to give voice to digital navigator programs that have rapidly innovated over the last year. Each blog features one of three components programs have identified as key to success in closing digital divides and digital, racial, and other inequities: Adaptability, Trust, and Awareness.

Over the past year, we have seen a universal need for more resources to support digital skill development, along with tools and strategies to help educators effectively integrate technology into instruction. Join us to see the results of our most recent EdTech Maker Space project, in which 50+ educators from around the country (and beyond) came together to organize high-quality learning resources around the Seattle Digital Equity Initiative Digital Skills Framework to address these needs by laying the groundwork for a Digital Skills Library. Not only will you see a showcase of participants’ favorite resources and ideas for integrating them, you will also learn about our upcoming Summer “Maker Camp” — a series of 90-minute events throughout the summer where you’ll have opportunities to share, brainstorm, and create with other educators to expand the library as we work together to build an open content sharing ecosystem.