Digital Learning Day calls on educators, students, parents, and other stakeholders everywhere to:

• Try one new thing
• Start a conversation
• Showcase what’s working.

Digital Learning Day is a campaign to:

• Celebrate great teaching
• Encourage more personalized and relevant learning
• Work to ensure that every child has access to the best learning experiences.

Digital Learning Day will include:

• National Town Hall Event
• Statewide events
• Local showcases
• Teachers trying new methods in the classroom and learning more about effective uses of technology.

California Showcase

Writing Our Future: A Celebration of Students’ Digital Learning and Writing

Capitol Plaza Holiday Inn
300 J Street, Sacramento
4:00 – 6:30 PM

Download program info and RSVP form.

Download final program to see what 20 teacher teams are showcasing!

Link here for hotel info and directions.

Road and Online Tours of Digital Classrooms

Link here for Road Tour information about schools and districts hosting opportunities to see digital teaching and learning in action.

Link here for Online Tours to learn more about digital learning and writing in schools and districts across California.

(Check back often and watch these expand across California.)

Professional Development Opportunities

Link here for California Writing Project Conferences

Link here for California Writing Project Saturday Seminars, Workshops, and Inservice Programs

Link here for Professional Development from CWP Partners.

Family, Youth, and Community Programs and Events

Link here for family events and programs

Link here for student events and programs

Link here for community events and programs

Recommended Research and Policy Briefs

Keeping the Promise of the 21st Century: Bringing Classroom Teaching Into the Digital Age, Inverness Research Associates

Teachers are the Center of Education: Writing, Learning and Leading in the Digital Age, College Board, National Writing Project, Phi Delta Kappa International

Digital Learning and Technology:  Federal Policy Recommendations to Seize the Opportunity— and Promising Practices That Inspire Them, Alliance for Excellent Education

Writing Between the Lines—and Everywhere Else, National Council of Teachers of English

21st Century Literacies, National Council of Teachers of English

The Digital Learning Imperative: How Technology and Teaching Meet Today's Education Challenges, Alliance for Excellent Education

Resources for Educators and Parents

Digital Is
The National Writing Project Digital Is website is a collection of ideas, reflections, and stories about what it means to teach writing in our digital, interconnected world.

Digital Learning Day Toolkits
Browse resource toolkits that have customized for teachers and librarians, district and school leaders, and parents.

Common Sense Media
Browse tools and curricula to teach your students and children about becoming responsible digital citizens.

Figment: Write Yourself In
Teachers and their students are invited to create and join online writing communities.

CDE on iTunes
Apple's iTunes U is a place where you can download lectures, discussions, audiobooks, podcasts and many other forms of educational content—all for free. The CDE has placed hundreds of media files on iTunes U to provide easily accessible, high-quality professional learning resources for teachers and education administrators.

"Try One New Thing" Invitations from CWP and Our Partners

CWP and Figment Invite You and Your Students!

CWP and Common Sense Media Invite Teachers and Parents to Teach Digital Citizenship
(download invitation)

Join the Digital Learning Day Conversations on Facebook and Twitter!

Research Partners

Inverness Research Associates
IRA has been a research partner with the California Writing Project for almost its entire 39-year history. Link here also to read research reports from STEM initiatives, media and literacy projects, curriculum and dissemination efforts, and more.

UC Davis University Writing Programs
UCD University Writing Programs is a valued research partner for Writing Project technology initiatives, EETT projects that work collaboratively with Writing Project sites, and for programs focused on writing for college and career.

CWP Bloggers
Read blogs written by CWP Directors and Teacher Consultants about their experiences with, questions about, and suggestions for digital teaching, learning, and writing.

National Digital Learning Day Bloggers
Read posts written for the Digital Learning Day campaign by bloggers addressing their approaches to advancing digital learning in their classroom, school, district, or state.

CWP Partners

California Association of Teachers of English

The California Arts Project (TCAP)

California World Languages Project

California Writes!

Figment: Write Yourself In

Common Sense Media