Butts, other MSD Wayne school officials and representatives from Verizon were on hand at Ben Davis University High School on October 29, to announce that five district schools have joined Verizon Innovative Learning, Verizon’s education initiative addressing barriers to digital inclusion and a key program under Citizen Verizon, the company’s responsible business plan for economic, environmental and social advancement. “So now with greater confidence level that our students can connect at home because of a partnership with the Verizon Innovative Learning schools program, we now feel much more confident that we can have a robust learning experience during an e-learning day where a student is home because of inclement weather or inability to come into school.” Indiana’s first Verizon Innovative Learning schoolsĭr. Jeff Butts, superintendent of the Metropolitan School District of Wayne Township. We’ve done it for a whole year,” said Dr. “We’ve found out that we can do e-learning now. And while in-person instruction is still the district’s first-choice learning environment, the community banded together quickly last year to keep kids on track with their education using Zoom, Google Meet and other popular digital tools. Like many school districts across the country, they believe that students learn best in the classroom with their peers and teachers. Wayne Township schools on the Westside of Indianapolis didn’t do much in the way of online education before the pandemic.
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