Digital Learning Cohort Overview:

During each school year, the SPS Digital Learning Team works with a different cadre of Digital Learning Cohort educators to build expertise in digital learning strategies that will meet the needs of our students, families, and communities.

Together, educators foster leadership for and integration of digital learning strategies, with an unapologetic emphasis on students furthest from educational justice.

The DL Cohort project consists of Professional Learning and Individualized Coaching Meetings.

Digital Learning Cohort Goals and Objectives:

• Participant educators will explore and expand the use of digital learning strategies to enhance and increase instructional effectiveness for all students, focusing on those furthest from educational justice.
• Cohorts will integrate digital learning strategies into existing SPS initiatives (e.g. Strategic Plan, Skillful Teacher, UDL, Inclusivity, Culturally Responsive Teaching, Danielson Framework).
• Educators will explore and expand the use of digital learning strategies to enhance and increase instructional effectiveness for all students, focusing on those furthest from educational justice. 

Educator Commitments:

• Educators commit to a year-long exploration of digital learning strategies designed to ensure equity and access for all students.
• Digital Learning Specialists meet with cohort participants to accomplish the following goals:
  •  Build expertise with new digital learning strategies
  •  Learn and practice best pedagogical practices in a digital learning environment
  • Reflect on and share progress through a racial equity lens
• Cohorts meet monthly to:
  • Model digital learning strategies in schools 
  • Meet regularly as a team  during the school year 
  • Attend professional learning that focuses on building technical, pedagogical, and leadership skills 
  • Participate in Coaching Cycle
  • Earn clock hours and extra time pay for the after-school professional learning

• Coaching takes place during the regular contractual day:
  • Coaching times are scheduled with individual educators to meet their work schedule needs
  • No clock hours or pay are available for coaching time

Participant Schools

The following schools have participated in the SPS Digital Learning Cohort: 

2023-2024

• Bailey Gatzert Elementary
• Beacon Hill International School
• Cascade K-12
• Cascadia Elementary
• Chief Sealth International High School
• Coe Elementary
• Dearborn Park Elementary
• Decatur Elementary
• Denny International Middle School
• Franklin High School
• Hawthorne Elementary
• Lafayette Elementary
• Laurelhurst Elementary
• Madison Middle School
• Martin Luther King Jr. and Rising Star Elementary
• McClure Middle School
• Meany Middle School
• Middle College High School
• Middle College High School at North Seattle
• North Beach Elementary
• Olympic View Elementary
• Robert Eaglestaff Middle School
• Salmon Bay K-8
• The Center School
• Thurgood Marshall Elementary
• Washington Middle School
• West Seattle High School

2022-2023

• B.F. Day
• Beacon Hill International School
• Concord International School
• Dunlap
• Greenwood
• Laurelhurst
• Rising Star

2021-2022 

• Adams Elementary
• Bailey Gatzert Elementary
• Bryant Elementary
• Cascade Parent Partnership
• Cedar Park Elementary
• Decatur Elementary
• Genesee Hill Elementary
• Graham Hill Elementary
• John Roger Elementary
• McDonald Elementary
• North Beach Elementary
• Orca K-8 Elementary
• Pathfinder K-8
• Rainier View Elementary
• South Shore PK-8
• Thurgood Marshall Elementary
• TOPS K-8
• West Woodland Elementary

2020-2021 

• Aki Kurose Middle 
•  Broadview-Thompson K-8 School
•  Denny International Middle School
•  Eckstein Middle School
•  Emerson Elementary
•  Gatewood Elementary
•  Hawthorne Elementary
•  InterAgency
•  Jane Addams Middle School
•  Lafayette Elementary
•  Louisa Boren STEM K-8 School
•  Lowell Elementary
•  Maple Elementary
•  McClure Middle School
•  McGilvra Elementary
•  Meany Middle School
•  Montlake Elementary
•  Olympic View Elementary
•  Roxhill @ Hughes Elementary
•  Wedgwood Elementary
• Whittier Elementary

2019-2020 

• Chief Sealth High School
• Cleveland STEM High School
• Dunlap Elementary
• Franklin High School
• Franz Coe Elementary
• Garfield High School
• Ingraham High School
• Lincoln High School
• Loyal Heights Elementary
• Madison Middle School
• Mercer International Middle School
• Rainier Beach High School
• Rising Star Elementary
• West Seattle Elementary
• West Seattle High School
• Wing Luke Elementary