Common Sense Media is implementing our whole community approach to digital citizenship through partnerships with leading school districts and departments of education around the country. In the 2010-2011 school year, 75 middle schools in these regions were demonstration sites for the Common Sense Digital Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum. These sites implemented the entire Digital Citizenship Strand, reaching nearly 10,000 students and thousands more parents and educators through their outreach. These partnerships are an integral part of Common Sense's education efforts.
The New York City Department of Education is the largest system of public schools in the country, serving about 1.1 million students with nearly 1,700 schools. Common Sense Media partners with the New York City Department of Education on a variety of efforts to bring digital citizenship to students and families. Common Sense Media is the expert Internet safety partner in NYC Connected Learning, which works in in 72 high-needs middle schools in New York City. NYC Connected Learning provides students and their families with a robust set of technology tools to create a home learning environment. It also makes key investments in the school environment to empower educators to successfully use the home broadband connection to provide online learning opportunities.
Common Sense Media works closely with 21 of the Connected Learning schools, which are demonstration sites, implementing and evaluating the full digital citizenship strand of our Digital Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum.
Common Sense Media also works with other Department of Education departments to support their efforts to educate students, families, and educators on digital citizenship. This work includes providing Parent Media and Technology Education Program trainings for educators and parent leaders across New York City on how to engage parents around issues such as cyberbullying, sexting, and privacy.
The Maine Learning Technology Initiative (MLTI), which is part of the State Department of Education, seeks to provide professional development and 21st-century tools to middle and high schools to support the attainment of the Maine state standards.
MLTI made Maine the first state to seize the potential of technology to transform teaching and learning in classrooms statewide; today, more than 50,000 seventh- through twelfth-grade students and nearly 12,000 teachers statewide have their own laptops. MLTI recognizes that teaching digital citizenship is critical to youth development, improved student achievement, and to successfully growing and improving their state-wide technology initiatives, therefore have been important partners of Common Sense since 2009. Our collaboration began with the training of educators at 60+ schools in our Parent Media and Technology Education Program. In the 2010-2011 school year, we identified 22 demonstration schools to implement and evaluate the entire digital citizenship strand of the Common Sense Media curriculum. With a joint MLTI/Common Sense staff person on the ground in Maine Common Sense has also been able to reach out to educators and schools throughout the state to discuss the importance of digital citizenship and provide professional development on how to best integrate our materials into schools.
The Omaha Public Schools (OPS) enrolls about 46,000 students of various ethnic, cultural, and religious backgrounds in 80 schools. Common Sense Media has been working with OPS since 2009, thanks to the generosity of the Sherwood Foundation. More than 120 educators have been trained on how to take a whole-community approach to teaching kids the skills and knowledge they need to behave ethically, responsibly, and safely in the online world. Using Common Sense's free educational resources dozens of schools have reached out to their parent communities and student bodies to lead the way in bringing good digital citizenship to Omaha.
In particular, five schools piloted our middle school curriculum in 2009, and eight schools became demonstration sites in 2010-2011, implementing and evaluating the full digital citizenship strand. Additionally, in partnership with OPS, MTV and the Family Violence Prevention Fund, Common Sense Media held the first-ever Digital Citizenship Town Hall Forum, bringing together more than 700 youth and adults to discuss issues like cyberbullying and privacy. Omaha also convened a Digital Citizenship Week using Common Sense Media materials to educate the entire community about being good digital citizens.
The Santa Clara County Office of Education (SCCOE) serves 262,000 students across 33 districts and 398 schools in California's Bay Area. SCCOE has identified key districts to integrate Common Sense Media's education programs and provides multiple platforms to inform various communities about our educational tools.
Evergreen School District serves 13,000 students across 13 schools in Santa Clara County. Evergreen School District partnered with Common Sense Media as a demonstration district in the 2010-2011 school year to implement and evaluate the Digital Citizenship Strand of our curriculum. With Evergreen as a demonstration district, Common Sense Media has reached 750 students in 5 schools.
KIPP Houston serves 6,000 students across 18 schools with 90% coming from low income households. KIPP Houston partnered with Common Sense Media as a demonstration district in the 2010-2011 school year to implement and evaluate the Digital Citizenship Strand of our curriculum. With KIPP Houston as a demonstration district, Common Sense Media has reached 523 students in 2 schools.
Los Angeles Unified School District serves 1,068,000 students across 1,092 schools. Los Angeles Unified School District partnered with Common Sense Media as a demonstration district in the 2010-2011 school year to implement and evaluate the Digital Citizenship Strand of our curriculum. With LAUSD as a demonstration district, Common Sense Media has reached 1,040 students in 5 schools.
Milpitas Unified School District serves 10,000 students across 13 schools. Milpitas Unified School District partnered with Common Sense Media as a demonstration district in the 2010-2011 school year to implement and evaluate the Digital Citizenship Strand of our curriculum. With Mipitas as a demonstration district, Common Sense Media has reached 310 students in 3 schools.
Santa Clara Unified serves 13,000 students across 23 schools in Santa Clara County. Santa Clara Unified School District partnered with Common Sense Media as a demonstration district in the 2010-2011 school year to implement and evaluate the Digital Citizenship Strand of our curriculum. With Santa Clara Unified as a demonstration district, CSM has reached 360 students in 4 schools.
Portola Valley School District serves 700 students across 2 schools in San Mateo County. Portola Valley School District partnered with CSM as a demonstration district in the 2010-2011 school year to implement and evaluate the Digital Citizenship Strand of our curriculum. As a demonstration district, CSM has reached 100 students in one Portola Valley school.
