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Discovery Education Honored with Global Brand Awards for Interactive Student Resources and Career Exploration Solution
Charlotte, NC (Monday, April 29, 2024) – Worldwide edtech leader Discovery Education today announced that two of its innovative products have earned the coveted 2024 Global Brand Awards. Discovery Education Experience was recognized as the winner of the Global Brand Awards for the Excellence in Interactive Digital Experiences for Students category, and the company’s Career Connect product was recognized as the winner of the Global Brand Awards in the Best Career Exploration Solution category.
Connecting educators to a vast collection of high-quality, standards-aligned content, ready-to-use digital lessons, intuitive quiz and activity creation tools, and professional learning resources, Discovery Education Experience is a powerful K-12 learning platform that facilitates engaging instruction in any environment. These resources, sourced from trusted partners, are aligned to state and national standards, and help educators bring the outside world into teaching and learning every day. Through expanded, lasting partnerships with Microsoft Teams, Google Classroom, Schoology, Canvas, Brightspace, and Clever, integrating Discovery Education’s learning platform into existing Information Technology architecture is easier than ever.
Career Connect promotes student curiosity by connecting classroom learning to potential careers. Through Career Connect, educators request virtual classroom visits from industry professionals, selecting from an array of job types, industries, languages, and locations. Then, students meet with professionals from industries like biotechnology, science, finance, computer engineering, human resources, education, and more, learning about potential career pathways through these interactions.
“At Discovery Education, innovation is at the heart of our effort to nurture student curiosity, and we are proud to be recognized for our work with this honor,” said Jeremy Cowdrey, the Chief Executive Officer of Discovery Education. “Thank you to the Global Brands Magazine team for choosing Discovery Education as a two-time Global Brand Awards winner.”
The Global Brand Awards are produced by Global Brands Magazine. Each year, Global Brands Magazine acknowledges companies that have excelled as industry leaders, demonstrated exceptional service, and promoted a unique vision. This year marks the 12th anniversary of the founding of the Global Brand Awards. A dedicated external research team was responsible for evaluating all nominees.
“Discovery Educations remarkable achievement in revolutionizing digital learning experiences is truly inspiring. Their dedication to providing innovative solutions for students has truly set a benchmark in the industry. Congratulations on winning the Excellence in Interactive Digital Experiences for Students and Best Career Exploration Solution awards,” said Mr. Jay Reddy, Director at Global Brands Magazine.
Learn more about the Global Brand Awards 2024 and the other winners here.
For more information about Discovery Education’s award-winning digital resources and professional learning solutions visit www.discoveryeducation.com, and stay connected with Discovery Education on social media through X (formerly Twitter), LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook.
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About Discovery Education
Discovery Education is the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports learning wherever it takes place. Through its award-winning multimedia content, instructional supports, innovative classroom tools, and corporate partnerships, Discovery Education helps educators deliver equitable learning experiences engaging all students and supporting higher academic achievement on a global scale. Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5 million educators and 45 million students worldwide, and its resources are accessed in over 100 countries and territories. Inspired by the global media company Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. Discovery Education partners with districts, states, and trusted organizations to empower teachers with leading edtech solutions that support the success of all learners. Explore the future of education at www.discoveryeducation.com.
Contact
Grace Maliska
Discovery Education
Email: gmaliska@dicoveryed.com
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New Hampshire Schools Discover New Civics Curriculum
Discovery Education to Produce New Civics Curriculum for New Hampshire Schools
This press release was originally distributed by the New Hampshire Department of Education. You can find the Department’s online version here.
CONCORD, NH (April 23, 2024) — In an effort to bolster civics education throughout the Granite State, the New Hampshire Department of Education (NHED) is partnering with Discovery Education to support the development of informed students who are eager and ready to participate in democracy.
In March, the Governor and Executive Council approved a $1 million contract between the New Hampshire Department of Education and Discovery Education to provide high quality curriculum and instructional materials for New Hampshire students and teachers to help them explore the history, heritage and principles of the New Hampshire Constitution and government it established.
In 2021, the New Hampshire Department of Education made Discovery Education content available, at no cost, to all New Hampshire educators when it selected the Discovery Education Experience learning platform to support local learning environments with high quality instructional material. Through this initial partnership, 100% of New Hampshire schools can use the Discovery platform and have engaged more than 1.4 million learning experiences. Expanding on that partnership, the new civics curriculum will be organized within a custom New Hampshire Civics Channel on the Discovery Education platform that will roll out to educators this fall. To support the implementation of this resource and to help drive the return on the State’s edtech investment, this new phase of partnership will also include comprehensive teacher training for the effective use of the resources.
“Civics education is essential for all New Hampshire students to ensure that this future generation of adults can, with respect for others, both make their voices heard and understand alternative perspectives,” said Frank Edelblut, education commissioner. “These skills are enhanced with a foundational understanding of the origins of our government and the framework established by our Constitution. We are pleased to once again partner with Discovery Education to help educators throughout the state find innovative ways to teach civics.”
Discovery Education will create a digital textbook and related content supporting the optional civics curriculum. Featuring resources for grades K-12, the materials created by Discovery Education will include ready-to-use resources that can easily be integrated into instruction; New Hampshire-centric digital assets featuring state specific artifacts; primary source documents that help develop each student’s understanding of their state government and constitution; and other custom created videos, interactives and educational supports that help frame engaging critical civics questions for all learners.
“Discovery Education is honored to be selected to support this incredibly important work and continue our support of New Hampshire educators, students and families,” said Coni Rechner, Discovery Education’s Senior Vice President of State and Strategic Partnerships. “The New Hampshire Department of Education’s innovative approach to civics instruction places it among the leaders in the effort to create active, well-informed citizens prepared to participate in democracy, and we are excited to continue to collaborate with Commissioner Edelblut and his entire team on this new initiative.”
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About Discovery Education
Discovery Education is the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports learning wherever it takes place. Through its award-winning multimedia content, instructional supports, innovative classroom tools, and corporate partnerships, Discovery Education helps educators deliver equitable learning experiences engaging all students and supporting higher academic achievement on a global scale. Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5 million educators and 45 million students worldwide, and its resources are accessed in over 100 countries and territories. Inspired by the global media company Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. Discovery Education partners with districts, states, and trusted organizations to empower teachers with leading edtech solutions that support the success of all learners. Explore the future of education at www.discoveryeducation.com.
Contact
Stephen Wakefield
Discovery Education
Phone: 202-316-6615
Email: swakefield@discoveryed.com
Contact
Kimberly Houghton
New Hampshire Department of Education
Phone: 603-513-3030
Email: kimberly.c.houghton@doe.nh.gov
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Nurturing Student Curiosity on Earth Day and Beyond with Resources from Discovery Education
Charlotte, NC (Wednesday, April 18, 2024) — Discovery Education—the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital resources nurture student curiosity and drive deeper engagement in instruction—presents educators a wide array of new, free digital resources designed to nurture student curiosity about the natural world on Earth Day and beyond.
The Earth Day resources from Discovery Education and its partners have been curated to be easily integrated into existing lesson plans and planned observances.
The following resources are available to users of the award-winning Discovery Education Experience K-12 learning platform:
- Earth Day channel features on-demand events, videos, images, Virtual Field Trips, and fun activities that commemorate Earth Day and inspire student curiosity to drive deeper engagement in learning.
- The DEmystified channel, a DE Original Series, encourages students to explore the wonders of the world, including the difference between weather and climate and why different places experience different weather.
- Earth to Luna: So Much Water, Fishtronaut: The Case of the Underwater Desert, and Fishtronaut: A Case of the Missing River videos help students in grades PK-5 learn where water comes from and how to protect aquatic creatures.
- The Minecraft: Education channel includes a series of lesson plans, ready-to-use activities, and student-created artifacts designed for Minecraft’s Sustainability City that encourage students to consider how human choices affect the environment.
- The Game Plan for the Future: A Virtual Field Trip with the NBA premieres on April 18, 2024, at 1 PM ET. Designed for students in grades 3-8, this event showcases how STEM concepts are helping the NBA think about sustainability in its arenas and offices and spark an individual’s interest in sustainability to improve the communities in which they are located. Register here or watch the VFT on-demand.
In addition, users of the award-winning Mystery Science service can turn to the Celebrating Earth Day collection. Mystery Science by Discovery Education is an engaging standards-aligned science curriculum for grades K-5 designed to help students stay curious. In this collection of 45-minute engineering lessons, Mystery Guides lead no prep, open-and-go lessons with step-by-step hands-on activities exploring scientific phenomena using common classroom items.
Discovery Education also offers a collection of free resources created in collaboration with leading corporate partners, including:
- Educators can find ready-to-use lesson plan bundles from Conservation Station: Creating a More Resourceful World—an educational initiative with Itron. The resources inspire students to explore water conservation, energy, and smart cities while the accompanying educator guides make it easy to plug and play resources into any class.
- With Sustainability: The Human Factor, a 3-part Video Topic Series, students discover human imagination, ingenuity, and passion behind the science of sustainability. Each video features a young changemaker who is sparking action at the local level, along with professional insights from a Trane Technologies thought leader working to innovate a healthier planet for all. These resources are from Sustainable Futures, a program developed in collaboration with global climate innovator, Trane Technologies.
- A collection of career exploration resources from the STEM Careers Coalition™ – an alliance of industries and non-profit organizations partnering with Discovery Education to ignite student curiosity by creating equitable access to STEM content and career connections – inspires students to explore sustainable futures. The collection of dynamic, on-demand resources supports educators’ efforts to drive deeper student engagement by connecting classroom lessons to the real-world. Career profile videos show students a variety of STEM careers including an organic chemist, bat conservationist, engineering professor, water quality engineer, geologist, health and safety coordinator, solar engineer, and more.
- A classroom activity from Better for Earth, Better for Us, an educational program with LG, takes students into the world of animal adaptations to observe snow leopards in real time. Students collaborate with their peers to create a project of their choice.
“Discovery Education is proud to offer teachers and students access to these engaging digital resources. With these materials in hand, educators are prepared to nurture student curiosity and explore our world,” Lance Rougeoux, Senior Vice President of Curriculum Instruction and Student Engagement at Discovery Education.
Discover even more Earth Day resources from Discovery Education here. For more information about Discovery Education’s award-winning digital resources and professional learning solutions visit www.discoveryeducation.com, and stay connected with Discovery Education on social media through X (formerly Twitter), LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook.
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About Discovery Education
Discovery Education is the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports learning wherever it takes place. Through its award-winning multimedia content, instructional supports, innovative classroom tools, and corporate partnerships, Discovery Education helps educators deliver equitable learning experiences engaging all students and supporting higher academic achievement on a global scale. Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5 million educators and 45 million students worldwide, and its resources are accessed in over 100 countries and territories. Inspired by the global media company Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. Discovery Education partners with districts, states, and trusted organizations to empower teachers with leading edtech solutions that support the success of all learners. Explore the future of education at www.discoveryeducation.com.
Contacts
Grace Maliska
Discovery Education
Email: gmaliska@dicoveryed.com