
North Carolina Digital-Age Learning Initiative
The NC Digital-Age Learning Initiative builds upon the existing foundation of digital learning initiatives to develop a coherent long-term strategy that sets directions and priorities, supports innovation, and provides resources to enable the State's educators and students to benefit fully from digital-age teaching and learning.
Updates
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EdNC: Perspective | Friday Institute Champions STEM
EdNC highlights the Friday Institute for their monthly feature, the NC STEM ScoreCard, which builds broader awareness of how P-20 STEM education is being nurtured across North Carolina.
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Let’s Get Digital
The Friday Institute's longtime commitment to digital learning helped change North Carolina's education landscape.
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Effective Coaching: Insights from the Field
This story from the field was developed to capture stories of instructional coaches from across the state that have participated in the professional learning offerings provided through the North Carolina Digital Learning Initiative.
Selected Resources
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Digital Learning Progress Rubric For ChartersRubricThe North Carolina Digital Learning Progress Rubric for Charter Schools is a strategic planning tool, or “roadmap,” intended to support North Carolina’s educators, charter schools, and communities in the transition to digital-age teaching and learning. The rubric describes a vision for a high quality, digital-age charter school, and is designed especially to help school teams reflect on the current stage of their transition, create sustainable plans, experiment with innovations, determine next steps, and track their progress.
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Digital Learning Progress Rubric For DistrictsRubricThe North Carolina Digital Learning Progress Rubric is a strategic planning tool, or “roadmap,” intended to support North Carolina’s educators and communities in the transition to digital-age teaching and learning. The rubric is designed to help school district teams reflect on the current stage of their transition, plan next steps, and track their progress moving forward.
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Digital Learning Progress Rubric For SchoolsRubricThe North Carolina Digital Learning Progress Rubric for Schools is a strategic planning tool, or “roadmap,” intended to support North Carolina’s educators, schools, districts, and communities in the transition to digital-age teaching and learning. The rubric describes a vision for a high quality, digital-age school, and is designed especially to help school teams reflect on the current stage of their transition, create sustainable plans, experiment with innovations, determine next steps, and track their progress.
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Equity for Digital-Age Learning: Education Leaders Address New Challenges in North Carolina SchoolsReportDigital inequities—or the divide amongst students who have and do not have access to digital resources —has become a national concern among K-12 educators in recent years. Research has documented the impacts of differential access to technology, however, as many districts and schools across the country move closer to fully transitioning to digital-age learning, digital inequity among K-12 students has become a more salient concern.
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North Carolina Digital Learning Plan – Detailed Plan – September 2015ReportThis North Carolina Digital Learning Plan has been developed to provide recommendations for state actions that will support K-12 schools as they become digital-age learning organizations. It was prepared for the North Carolina State Board of Education and Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) by the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at NC State University, working in collaboration with educators, policymakers, and other stakeholders across the state.
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Quality Review Tools for Digital Learning ResourcesRubricThe quality review checklist and rubric presented in this document are designed to support educators in evaluating digital learning resources intended for classroom use.
Selected Projects
People
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Shaun B. KelloggDirectorTeam Lead
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Emmy ColemanSenior Research Scholar
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Ms Jamie Gustava GillespieResearch Scholar
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Erin Suzanne HugginsActing Associate Director of Program Evaluation and Educational Research (Leadership Team)
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Brittany Palmer MillerResearch Scholar
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Jaclyn Bell StevensResearch Scholar