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Learning Activities:

  • Four synchronous sideby sessions with peers (20 minutes each)

  • Two reflection sideby sessions solo (15 minutes each)

  • Completion of required learning activities in between sessions, including: 

    • Two experiential learning challenges of your choice - applying ideas in practice

    • Five shared posts within sideby of your small wins

    • Completed readings

    • Final survey

  • OPTIONAL Office Hours with course facilitators

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sideby’s Advancing Digital Equity Badge earns 6 Equity Clock Hours.

This peer-driven learning experience runs from March 18 to June 5, 2026 and is broken into three parts:

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    Part 1: See Digital Equity Through Learners’ Eyes

    Leaders build awareness and clarity.


    Participants examine their own “why” for digital equity and engage in an empathy-based inquiry to identify a real digital equity barrier in their setting—grounded in students’ lived experiences.

    Outcome: A clearly defined Digital Equity Barrier, seen through learners’ perspectives.

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    Part 2: Design Leadership Moves Using What You Already Have

    Leaders move from insight to action.

    Participants learn key design levers for change and plan a concrete Leadership Move that repurposes existing resources (time, tools, people, policies) to address their identified barrier.

    Outcome: A feasible, context-specific Leadership Move ready to implement.

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    Part 3: Lead Systemically and Ethically

    Leaders test, reflect, and refine.

    Participants implement their Leadership Move, examine systemic constraints, and grapple with AI and ethical leadership, assessing how technology can either reduce or reinforce inequities.

    Outcome: A refined leadership approach informed by systems thinking and ethical analysis.

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AWSP Members and leaders in the National School Leader Collaborative get the discounted rate.

If you’re in one of the following states, you’re in the collaborative: AL, IL, MN, NY, IN, MO, WA, WI, NJ, PA, AK, & ME

Just reach out to team@sideby.ai for the discount code before you enroll.

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PSEL and CCDEI Standards & Syllabus

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Your Learning Facilitators

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    Erica Crane, EdD

    Erica is a former teacher and high school founding principal. She is a current ceo and co-founder at sideby, a platform that connects educators for guided conversations along learning pathways to accelerate community-driven innovation at scale. She is also a faculty associate and course designer in Ed Leadership at ASU where she currently coaches principal interns. With an emphasis on liberatory practices, she has taught, coached, consulted, and led in schools and supported school systems across the United States since 2006, from the South Bronx to rural Northern California.

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    Mike Mendelson

    Mike brings deep experience at the intersection of teaching, learning design, and applied AI in education. He began his career as a high school math and technology educator and later served in a district-level role supporting the implementation of personalized, competency-based learning systems. Across these roles, he focused on designing structures that support educator practice, student agency, and coherent learning pathways at scale.

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    Kippy Smith

    Over the last 20 years, Kippy has held roles on all sides of professional learning—from classroom teacher, to programs designer and facilitator, leadership coach, and organizational leader. Kippy has spent her career at the intersection of school design, edtech innovation, and educator collaboration. Her work is grounded in the belief that transformational learning isn’t top-down — it’s co-created in schools, classrooms, and teams. As SVP of Learning at sideby, Kippy continues to lead SWD while influencing how we grow sideby’s learning network.

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✺ Frequently Asked Questions ✺

  • No. This is a peer-driven learning experience designed to fit into the real work of school leadership. You’ll spend short, focused time learning with a peer, then apply what you’re exploring directly in your school through practical challenges and reflection.

  • The synchronous commitment is light: a 20-minute guided peer session every two weeks. Asynchronous work is flexible and embedded in your day-to-day leadership — not extra homework or long written assignments.

  • No. This course is designed for principals with a wide range of experience. You’ll focus on a digital equity challenge in your own school, explore tools and systems already in use, and clarify your leadership approach — without having to match anyone else’s pace or expertise.

  • You’ll leave with a clear digital equity focus, a leadership move grounded in your school’s reality, and a reflective story you can use to engage staff, districts, or communities. The learning is designed to create momentum — not just completion. 100% free for educators (to engage AND get the badge at the end). No credit card. No upsell.

Why sideby?

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    We’re real educators too who designed sideby for transformational professional learning. We’ve taught, led, and facilitated great PD in real schools.

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    AWSP and sideby have partnered to bring exciting new learning opportunities for education leaders to earn official clock hours.

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    AWSP heard from ed leaders that they wanted clock hours through authentic learning opportunities and connection with peers.

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    Education leaders should learn how they’d teach. Our approach to more personalized, peer-driven, application-based experiences models deeper learning in action

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    Our learning experiences offer an opportunity for collaboration and cross-pollination across leadership contexts. They are first offered to AWSP members first. Then registration opens to the 12 state School Leader Collaborative before it becomes nationally available.

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    Leaders deserve the best learning, just like students do.

✺ Contact Information ✺

For questions about the learning experience or technical support within sideby, reach out to: team@sideby.ai

For questions about your clock hours issued through AWSP or for info about registration in AWSP’s Learning Lab, reach out to: dameon@awsp.org