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November 06, 2026
LANSING – The Michigan Department of Education (MDE) is putting students and families first by using grant funds to support projects involving digital teaching and learning.
The projects include creating videos about using school technology that can be easily translated for parents from multilingual families, student use of artificial intelligence (AI) and utilizing student voice.
This work is supported by grant awards from the Council of Chief State School Officers through its Digital Excellence Collaborative Community, which the council formed to support state education agencies as they lead the transformation to digital teaching and learning. Funding comes from Ballmer Group, a philanthropic organization committed to improving economic mobility and opportunity for children and families in the United States who are disproportionately likely to remain in poverty.
“Technology—when used properly—can help students learn and provide additional ways to communicate with families,” said State Superintendent Dr. Glenn Maleyko. “Support from our partners from the Council of Chief State School Officers and the Ballmer Group help us put Students First.”
This year Michigan is receiving funding through the second round of Digital Excellence Collaborative Community grants. MDE, which received $53,000 in the second round, is beginning work on projects through a multi-state partnership with Delaware, Kentucky, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Carolina and Wyoming.
One project—AI Together: Connecting States, Schools, and Families—will work on engagement strategies around AI, screen time, data privacy, academic integrity and student well-being. The other project—Student Voice—will share strategies to use student and educator voices to identify barriers and support implementation of equitable digital learning.
Both projects are intended to create resources and support materials that can be shared with all states to address educational technology topics.
In April 2025, for the first round, the Council of Chief State School Officers awarded Michigan and nine other states Digital Excellence Mini Grants. Michigan received $40,000 and recently completed its work.
The videos paid for with first-round funding detail common activities that parents access online for which multilingual parents may lack digital skills and support in their native language to be successful. Topics included accessing Google Classroom to check on student work, accessing the student information system, navigating the school website, sending an email and how to find extra-curricular activities for students.
The videos were created in English and then transcribed in Arabic, French, Mandarin Japanese, Spanish, and Armenian. They can be found in the Multilingual Family Support for School Resources Collection in GoOpen Michigan.
To learn more about the Digital Excellence Collaborative Community and funded projects, visit Learning.CCSSO.org.
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