Teach For America Leverages Pluralsight One, Uses Technology Skills to Combat Educational Inequality
October 03 2019 - 9:00AM
Pluralsight, Inc. (NASDAQ: PS), the technology skills platform,
today announced that education nonprofit Teach For America has
partnered with Pluralsight’s social enterprise, Pluralsight One, to
support its technology skills strategy to confront educational
inequity. To help fulfill nonprofit missions and improve
operational and programmatic capacity, Pluralsight One provides
global nonprofits and their beneficiaries with access to the entire
Pluralsight technology skills development platform.
Founded on a belief in the potential of all children and their
right to an excellent education, Teach For America’s goal is to
close the educational opportunity gap that disproportionately
affects low-income communities by finding outstanding leaders who
commit to expanding educational excellence and equity, beginning
with at least two years teaching in an under-resourced public
school. Teach For America relies on technology to make progress
against its mission and recognizes the critical need for continuous
technology skill development for its staff. However, traditional
ways of technology upskilling is challenging for non-profit
organizations, which must work with limited financial
resources.
“We were thinking about how to leverage technology to develop
our IT staff,” says Minerva Inigo, Manager of IT Learning
Development at Teach For America. “We had to find an affordable
solution because nonprofit organizations have a very limited budget
for a lot of things, including development.”
To execute its technology skills strategy, Teach For America is
leveraging Pluralsight One’s nonprofit product, granting its IT
teams access to technology skill development resources to keep up
with the speed of technology. With Pluralsight One, Teach For
America is able amplify impact by getting teams up to speed quickly
on technologies needed to build solutions for their corps members
and the students they support.
“The ability to provide everyone with access to Pluralsight is a
game-changer not just because we can quickly skill up our team to
deliver new technologies, but also because it empowers each person
to take the driver’s seat when it comes to their own professional
development,” said Inigo. “That can make such an impact on
someone’s life.”
Leaders at Teach For America identify courses on Pluralsight
that deliver the skills teams need to create solutions. For
example, getting up to speed with cloud technology allows teams at
Teach For America to start thinking more broadly about the future
of IT at the organization. “Cloud technology enables us to explore
the potential of emerging technology such as Artificial
Intelligence and Augmented Reality in fueling our mission,” added
Inigo.
Teach For America is also mapping technology skills to key roles
within the organization and are using Pluralsight to create
channels with relevant content to help corps members develop and
progress in their careers.
“Teach For America’s mission is to end educational inequity in
the US,” said Elizabeth Baron, Senior Managing Director of Data
Platform in IT at Teach For America. “Pluralsight One looks to end
educational gaps all over the world with access to high-quality
technology skills. The fact that these two align is a fantastic
perk.”
To learn more about how Teach For America and other leading
nonprofits are using Pluralsight to advance their missions, visit:
pluralsightone.org/stories.
About Pluralsight
Pluralsight is an enterprise technology skills platform that
delivers a unified, end-to-end learning experience for businesses
across the globe. Through a subscription service, companies are
empowered to move at the speed of technology, increasing
proficiency, innovation and efficiency. Founded in 2004 and trusted
by Fortune 500 companies, Pluralsight provides members with
on-demand access to a digital ecosystem of learning tools,
including Pluralsight IQ, directed learning paths, expert-authored
courses, interactive labs, and analytics. For more information,
visit www.pluralsight.com.
About Pluralsight One
Pluralsight One is the social enterprise of Pluralsight (NASDAQ:
PS), the enterprise technology skills platform. It is the company’s
commitment to drive significant, lasting social impact by improving
equal access to technology skills and investing in catalytic
solutions. Pluralsight One Fund is a corporate advised fund at
Silicon Valley Community Foundation, a 501(c)(3) public charity
registered in the United States, EIN# 20-5205488. For more
information about Pluralsight One and the nonprofit product suite,
visit www.pluralsightone.org.
About Teach For America
Teach For America works in partnership with urban and rural
communities in more than 50 regions across the country to expand
educational opportunities for children. Founded in 1990, Teach For
America recruits and develops a diverse corps of outstanding
leaders to make an initial two-year commitment to teach in
high-need schools and become lifelong leaders in the effort to end
educational inequity. Today Teach For America is a force of nearly
60,000 alumni and corps members committed to profound systemic
change. From classrooms to districts to state houses across
America, they’re reimagining education to realize the day when
every child has an equal opportunity to learn, to grow, to
influence, and to lead. For more information, visit
www.teachforamerica.org and follow us on Facebook and Twitter.
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Communicationsben-veghte@pluralsight.com
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