Digital Equity

CLMER provides key leadership for addressing both the threats and opportunities of digital transformations of public education, jobs, civic engagement and global relations through critical inquiry, proactive visioning and the development of projects and services that help to promote equity in a digital age.

From 1995-2001 CLMER served as the lead agency for the Pacific Southwest Regional Technology in Education Consortium (PSRTEC), working with policy-makers, educators and community members across seven states and island entities of the Pacific to meaningfully integrate new technologies into K-12 education and adult literacy.

CLMER staff members engage in effective policy development and professional development as well as in the development and dissemination of promising practices with regard to new learning technologies in K-12 and adult literacy.

As with our other Areas of Work, CLMER focuses on developing and improving standards-based, multilingual and multicultural learning environments. Further, for the past several years CLMER has been a leader in the arena of Community Technology Center development, working collaboratively with other community leaders to create over 200 community learning and technology centers in low-income communities.

CLMER Digital Equity leadership has included: co-sponsorship of the annual CTCNet conferences, active and founding membership in the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Minority Leadership Symposium and founding membership in the Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology (PT3) Digital Equity Task Force.

CLMER work in this area includes seven years of experience facilitating high-quality, standards-based K-12 Global Learning Network Projects that promote critical inquiry and action for social justice in classrooms nationally and internationally. Please follow the links below to view highlighted projects and services.

Pacific Southwest Regional Technology in Education Consortium

CLMER K-12 and Higher Education Global Learning Network Projects

Family-School-Community Collaboration Institutes