Dive Brief:

• Tennessee’s school boards are launching the Digital Learning Project, which will provide students, parents, and teachers access to a library of high-quality digital education resources.
• The Tennessee School Boards Association has partnered with Apple, which is helping with design, and state education organizations like the Tennessee Education Technology Association.
• The project is expected to go live next spring. 

Dive Insight:

The project relies on teacher curation to populate the library Apple is helping to build. Teams of teachers will be getting together this year to pick resources from key high school classes like Algebra I. Tennessee’s standards are currently in flux, which offers a particular challenge when it comes to selecting materials. But Tennessee School Boards Association executive director Tammy Grissom assured community members in a meeting that “it will be aligned to whatever standards we have at that point in time.” There are currently no details on how exactly they’ll ensure that, but the approach may offer states that are also grappling with shifts in standards a lesson in how to keep their digital resources up-to-date.