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Digital Promise
Digital Promise is a global nonprofit organization that works with educators, researchers, technology leaders and communities to accelerate innovation in education and expand learning opportunities for all. At the heart of its work is Powerful Learning—learning that is personal and authentic, driven by curiosity, and connected to the world beyond the classroom.
Digital Promise serves as the Measurement, Learning, and Evaluation (MLE) partner for the Engagement Collaborative for Research & Equity (ENCORE), a subnetwork within AIMS, helping grantees generate evidence about how edtech influences teaching and learning.
Digital Promise supports ENCORE teams in the following ways:
Learning from Research: Supporting teams to refine research agendas, strengthen logic models, and connect their proposed solutions to the challenges they aim to address.
Facilitating Rapid Testing: Co-designing equity-centered, rapid-cycle testing plans that enable grantees to gather actionable evidence and iterate on their products in real time.
Scaling What Works: Synthesizing findings across projects to surface insights, patterns, and promising practices that inform broader improvements in teaching and learning.
Learning Partners
AIMS Learning Partners are organizations outside of the AIMS Facilitation Team and Digital Promise who support AIMS project teams in their work. Learning Partners are subject matter experts who provide essential insights and guidance for advancing grantee projects. When members across AIMS need support, they can utilize the services of Learning Partners as part of a trusted network to the AIMS Collaboratory.
BUILD
BUILD is a youth-empowering organization working nationwide. One of their initiatives is a youth fellowship program wherein students participate in focus groups and/or design sprints to share insights about their experiences in school. The Youth Advisory Panel all served as youth fellows before becoming official advisors to AIMS. BUILD works with members across AIMS to deepen understanding about students’ needs, hopes and experiences. BUILD engages youth ages 15–24 to reflect on their experiences in middle and high school in virtual engagements and at AIMS convenings.
Learning Data Insights
The Learning Data Insights (LDI) team includes research scientists and software developers, and has access to leading experts in the field of education, data science, and education technology development. LDI provides support to AIMS community members in the following ways:
Offering guidance on learning analytics methods to measure motivation, engagement and persistence with students and teachers.
Disseminating open science best practices to increase impact and equity, and to meet Gates Foundation global access requirements for sharing learnings and materials beyond the Collaboratory.
Providing workshops, one-on-one consultation sessions, and data analytical tools for AIMS teams researchers and developers, especially to people less experienced deriving insights from user interaction and platform performance data (eg: process/clickstream data).
Working closely with the Data Infrastructure cross-team network.
Creating the Digital Learning Platform Catalog to enable teams to disseminate datasets/experimental platforms for researchers to engage with high-quality datasets to test hypotheses and develop insights that advance their projects. The Catalog also serves as a source of information for EduData Fellows.
Arbiters of Quality
The Arbiters of Quality are organizations that have developed high-quality standards for issues related directly to AIMS Collaboratory projects and experiences.
Developing effective edtech products: ISTE—International Society for Technology in Education
Developing high-quality mathematics materials for English language learners: ELSF—English Learners Success Forum
Advancing culturally responsive and sustaining education in math curriculum materials: WestEd
Identifying and integrating key characteristics of social and emotional learning (SEL) in mathematics content and instruction: CASEL—Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning and WestEd