Mississippi District Using Digital Tools to Boost Engagement Over the next three years, Mississippi's Vicksburg Warren School District will use Discovery Education's platform to curate digital materials for keeping students interested and connecting lessons to current events. May 26, 2021 • One of the main concerns of K-12 educators has always been how to bolster student engagement. To stimulate children’s innate curiosity and ditch the traditional pen-and-paper approach to instruction, districts have looked to a growing ed tech market offering a plethora of new interactive multimedia content platforms. Noting the need to keep courses interesting, the teaching-resource company Discovery Education last week announced a new three-year partnership with Mississippi’s Vicksburg Warren School District to build upon the district’s content portfolio and help teachers enhance classroom instruction with a digital learning platform.