Success Stories in Education

Miami-Dade County Public Schools use Workplace to turn classrooms into connected communities.

University of the People uses a Messenger bot to cost-effectively increase student enrollment

As part of its Computer Science Education initiative, Facebook hosts the annual summit of Advanced Placement Computer Science (AP CS) teachers in partnership with the College Board.

Engineer in Residence aims to build a stronger pipeline of diverse candidates by designing and teaching computer science courses to college students at minority-serving institutions.

Students and teachers talk about the benefits arising from implementing social-emotional learning (SEL) initiatives from inspirED at their school.

DigitasLBi’s adopted Blueprint Live to educate their teams in building effective media strategies for Facebook and Instagram.

The teacher and students of the Maker Design Studio class at Leadership Public Schools describe how they used the Engineer for the Week program to create a game to bring awareness to a social issue that they care about.

A partnership among Best Buy, Facebook and Oculus is helping to make virtual reality technology, and the possibilities it holds for the future, real for youth.

Facebook and Pathstream teamed up with the The Peralta Community College District to make digital skills training accessible and affordable for anyone looking to sharpen their skills.

In an effort to design up-to-date curriculum, Central New Mexico Community College integrated the Facebook Digital Skills Program to offer credentials that convey digital competencies that empower students and small businesses.

The 4th-5th grade students from Harlem Children’s Zone participated in hands-on programming experiences with CodeFWD by Facebook—contributing to 24,000+ kid-minutes of coding in less than three months.

With the help of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, the World’s Largest Lesson taught the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) to children in Nigeria—reaching over 700K children with lessons given by 3K+ volunteers.

With the goal of improving educational outcomes in the state of Gujarat, India, the Department of Education onboarded 115K+ teachers onto Workplace to give them the training and support they need to become better educators—saving teachers throughout the state an estimated 3.2M working hours.

The State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) in Edo, Nigeria used Workplace from Facebook to improve online teacher training and better connect educators in four pilot schools. It saw such strong results that it’s expanding the program into 100 schools in 2020 with the help of Express Wi-Fi. Watch this video of teachers connecting through Workplace.

Teachers are using Facebook in so many ways. Our partnership with the National Network of State Teachers of the Year (NNSTOY) is focused on supporting their mission of connecting and mobilizing educators across all of Facebook's products.