Digital Promise is a global nonprofit working to expand opportunity for every learner.
We work with educators, researchers, technology leaders, and communities to design, investigate, and scale innovations that support learners, especially those who’ve been historically and systematically excluded.

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Digital Promise is a nonprofit organization that advances equitable, research-driven innovation in education by connecting research, practice, and technology to expand learning opportunities for every learner. It develops and scales programs such as micro-credentials, the Learner Variability Project, League of Innovative Schools, and professional learning and edtech pilot frameworks, while supporting digital equity, workforce pathways, AI literacy, and research-informed policy and practice. Digital Promise partners with districts, educators, industry, and researchers to design and implement solutions that have reached millions of students and hundreds of thousands of educators worldwide.

Digital Promise is a global nonprofit working to expand opportunity for every learner. We work with educators, researchers, technology leaders, and communities to design, investigate, and scale innovations that support learners, especially those who’ve been historically and systematically excluded.

• Help align strategy, priorities, and execution across multiple Digital Promise teams in support of Powerful Learning and related system-change initiatives.
• Work across research, practice, partnerships, product, and policy, to develop coordinated approaches that connect learning science, implementation, and system adoption.
• Help define, support, and/or manage cross-functional bodies of work, including shared scopes, milestones, risks, and decision points, ensuring initiatives remain aligned to organizational impact goals and the Powerful Learning vision.
• Support senior leadership in translating emerging opportunities into actionable collaborations and implementation strategies.
• Coordinate with external consultants, contractors, and strategic partners as needed to advance initiative design and execution.
• Ensure organizational health and cultivate a positive and inclusive and highly collaborative workplace culture across diverse departmental groups and consultant partnerships, ensuring strong cross-organizational alignment.
• Identify, cultivate, and manage high-value partnerships with State Education Agencies, Local Education Agencies, intermediaries, technical assistance providers, higher education institutions, philanthropy, and other field leaders whose work can advance Powerful Learning and the broader learning agenda.
• Help design partnership strategies that link Digital Promise’s expertise in research, learning, educational technologies, and innovation with external partners’ strengths in policy, implementation and systems transformation.
• Build and sustain coalitions that can support durable field adoption, shared learning, and long-term systems change.
• Conduct landscape analysis to identify strategic opportunities, emerging initiatives, and partnership gaps across the education ecosystem.
• Develop partnership concepts and collaboration models that position Digital Promise to play a connective role across research, policy, practice, and innovation.
• Develop and advance strategies for engaging State Education Agencies, Local Education Agencies, and other system-level actors in the adoption and implementation of Powerful Learning and powerful technology approaches.
• Help design state- and district-facing implementation models that support coherent change across policy, instructional practice, talent development, data use, edtech procurement, and innovation adoption.
• Advise on how Digital Promise’s work can support states and districts as they build the enabling conditions for future-ready systems, including instructional coherence, interoperability, responsible AI adoption, and stronger R&D-to-practice connections.
• Support the development of scalable approaches for state and district implementation, including playbooks, partnership structures, readiness criteria, and implementation supports.
• Work with partners to identify problems worth solving, define measurable outcomes, and ensure that implementation efforts are grounded in real system needs and practical pathways to scale.
• Help shape and advance a cross-team learning agenda focused on what it takes to create the conditions for Powerful Learning at scale.
• Ensure that partnership and implementation strategies generate actionable learning for Digital Promise and the field, particularly around how powerful learning models are adopted, supported, and sustained in diverse contexts.
• Partner with internal and external research collaborators to connect practice-based insights to broader questions about instructional transformation, system redesign, and future-ready learning environments.
• Monitor and interpret key state and national developments related to education policy, implementation conditions, emerging technologies (and AI in particular) in education, instructional change, and system transformation.
• Translate policy trends, system constraints, and field signals into recommendations that inform Digital Promise strategy and partner engagement.
• Support the design of partnership and implementation strategies that reflect the realities of governance, local control, public trust, procurement, sustainability, and long-term adoption in SEA and LEA settings.
• Help develop strategies that move initiatives from pilot to durable system adoption, including sustainability planning, transition pathways, and long-term partnership structures.  
• Support states, districts, and partner organizations in building the internal capacity, routines, and strategic alignment needed to sustain powerful learning and future-ready system design over time.

Policy Director

Policy Director at Digital Promise driving education initiatives and partnerships for Powerful Learning. Focused on building sustainable education systems and advancing policy strategies across agencies and coalitions.

account-manager

• Design and develop strategy for pathways growth and partnerships in collaboration with CLPI team
• Lead, cultivate, manage, and grow an internal team focused on growth and partnerships
• Manage team in the successful execution of pathways initiatives
• Build and manage high-impact strategic partnerships with organizations, state leaders, and workforce agencies
• Ensure fundraising, partnerships, and state support strategies align with broader pathways growth goals
• Collaborate with state agencies to support development and implementation of statewide career pathways strategies
• Develop playbooks, tools, and guidance to help states build coherent, high-quality pathways systems
• Collaborate with management on fundraising strategies and execution
• Craft advocacy messages and policy briefs with communication teams

Senior Director – Career Pathways Growth & Partnerships

Senior Director of Career Pathways Growth & Partnerships at Digital Promise. Leading strategy for high-quality career pathways across K-12, postsecondary, and adult learning systems.

artificial-intelligence

• Support the development of AI Literacy resources, their implementation in the classroom, and the strategic dissemination and integration of these resources in learning environments
• Collaborate internally with the Practice and EdTech teams, Digital Promise colleagues and externally with partners to foster a collaborative environment for innovation
• Co-design metrics of evaluation to track and analyze the impact of AI Literacy resources and professional learning on learning experiences and outcomes
• Co-design implementation plans and supports for integrating AI Literacy into teaching and learning
• Collaborate across Digital Promise and with additional subject matter experts to create and facilitate learning experiences that drive district, teacher, and student adoption of emerging technologies, including AI Literacy, in safe and equitable ways
• Create resources for schools, districts, and students that help them to use, understand and evaluate emerging technologies in equitably, thoughtfully, and powerful ways
• Facilitate peer-to-peer learning across districts, schools, edtech, and researchers
• Collaborate with the Operations team on project operations and budgeting, to include expense and revenue management and knowledge management
• Partner with the Communications team to represent Digital Promise through presentations at national conferences, authoring blogs and reports, and managing the public sharing of AI Literacy project stories, outputs, and learnings
• Stay current with the latest trends, research, and advancements in AI Literacy and emerging fields, analyzing their potential impact on education and recommending actionable strategies to support emerging technology and edtech implementation.

Researcher, Emerging Technologies and AI Literacy

Researcher developing AI Literacy resources for Digital Promise Global; collaborating with educators and tech partners to foster equitable implementation.

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