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Verizon Innovative Learning Schools (VILS)

Verizon Innovative Learning Schools (VILS)

 Verizon Innovative Learning Schools (VILS) is a program for middle schools. Accepted schools are provided the following:
  • 1:1 Devices for all students and teachers 
  • 2-year Program
  • 24-hour Connectivity 
  • Professional Development (face-face and virtual)
  • A full-time VILS Coach focused on supporting teaching and learning for the program.
  • Opportunities to collaborate with a national network of Middle Schools, High Schools, and ITI Practitioner Schools. 
  • Opportunities from Verizon partners to bring more STEM into schools
For more information about the VILS Program, please email: [email protected]
 

VILS CONNECT      2021-2022

The VILS hotspot model provides mobile hotspots with data access for students who need access to the Internet, as well as professional learning for educators.

Participating Schools:

  • Bethune Middle School
  • Carver Middle School
  • Charles R. Drew Middle School
  • James Madison Middle School
  • Marina del Rey Middle School
  • Maywood Center for Enriched Studies (MaCES) Magnet

VILS Cohort 7      2020-2021

Digital Promise collaborates with Verizon to equip every student and teacher at select middle schools across America with a device and up to a four-year data plan. In addition to free technology and access, Verizon Innovative Learning Schools receive extensive teacher training, support, and the opportunity to engage in a unique, immersive curriculum to leverage technology in their classrooms.

Participating Schools:

  • Berendo Middle School
  • Holmes Middle School
  • Maclay Middle School
  • Northridge Middle School
  • Orchard Academies 2c
  • Robert Louis Stevenson Middle School College & Career Preparatory
  • South Gate Middle School
  • Sylmar Leadership Academy
  • Utah Street Elementary (K-8)

VILS Cohort 6       2019-2020

Digital Promise collaborates with Verizon to equip every student and teacher at select middle schools across America with a device and up to a four-year data plan. In addition to free technology and access, Verizon Innovative Learning Schools receive extensive teacher training, support, and the opportunity to engage in a unique, immersive curriculum to leverage technology in their classrooms.

Participating Schools:

  • Christopher Columbus Middle School
  • El Sereno Middle School
  • John Burroughs Middle School
  • Thomas Star King Middle School
  • Webster Middle School

VILS Cohort 5       2018-2019

Digital Promise collaborates with Verizon to equip every student and teacher at select middle schools across America with a device and up to a four-year data plan. In addition to free technology and access, Verizon Innovative Learning Schools receive extensive teacher training, support, and the opportunity to engage in a unique, immersive curriculum to leverage technology in their classrooms.

Participating Schools:

  • Samuel Gompers Middle School
  • Sutter Middle School
  • Thomas A. Edison Middle School

VILS Demonstration Schools

Participating Schools:

  • Sutter Middle School

Verizon Innovative Learning Lab Schools

In partnership with Heart of America and Arizona State University, the Verizon Innovative Learning Lab combines technology with innovative project-based curriculum and real-world problem-solving in a custom-designed, state-of-the-art school-based Innovation Lab.

Participating Schools:

  • Christopher Columbus Middle School
  • El Sereno Middle School
  • Holmes Middle School
  • Samuel Gompers Middle School
  • Sutter Middle School
  • Thomas A. Edison Middle School
  • Thomas Starr King Middle School
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