Digital Promise

Director

• 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