Howard Dvorsky

“The best learners aren’t confident—they’re curious.” Growth mindset begins with humility and wonder, not certainty. Source

Google Apps for Education no longer exists. It’s now Google Workspace for Education—four tiers of connected tools for teaching, feedback, and collaboration across schools. Source

When Kerri Wall’s school district decided not to renew its five-year contract with an edtech company last spring, she didn’t expect the hardest part to come after the breakup. As the senior digital innovation administrator for the School District of Indian River County in Florida — and designated student data privacy officer — Wall needed to confirm that the vendor had deleted student and parent i...[Read More]

According to Google Cloud’s 2026 Cybersecurity Forecast, AI will become standard for both cyber attackers and defenders, with threats expanding to virtualization systems, blockchain networks, and nation-state operations.

A recent report from Backblaze found nearly all large organizations face hidden cloud storage charges that limit flexibility and drive data lock-in.

CBE, PBL, PBE, PBIS, MTSS, UDL, STEM, AVID… the education landscape is an alphabet soup of programs, each promising to better serve all learners. The problem isn’t the programs themselves; it’s that they are often developed in a vacuum and claim to be a silver bullet, creating an exhausting cycle of disconnected initiatives that lack true alignment. Before you add the next program to the list, let...[Read More]

By: Ji Soo Song The rapid adoption of AI-powered tools in K-12 classrooms, paired with the national discourse around developing AI literacy skills, have spotlighted the need to address the digital design divide–defined in the 2024 National Educational Technology Plan as the gap between educators who are supported in building their capacities to design learning experiences transformed through techn...[Read More]

Jennifer Nicholls is the owner, lead teacher “and cook, nurse and entertainment,” she joked, at Journey Preschool, a home-based early childhood education program that cares for a dozen children. “Often we’re called providers, or babysitters, but we’re educators too,” she says. That misconception often goes along with getting ignored by federal and state agencies’ rare efforts to improve earl...[Read More]

Mission Telecom said it hopes other service providers follow its lead.

18 of the best formative assessment tools for teachers–to glean data, take snapshots of understanding, create digital exit slips, and more. Source

We are surrounded by intermediaries. Banks manage the exchange between people and capital. Trainers connect individuals to their fitness goals. Real estate agents guide home buying through the complexity of markets and contracts. In every sector, intermediaries build bridges between systems and people, translating complexity into access and opportunity. In education, the same dynamic holds true, t...[Read More]

Robert “Bob” Mislevy often shared thought experiments. Imagine, he’d say, that an expert English-speaking chemist who is learning German and a native German undergraduate both take a chemistry test written in German. He’d ask: “If a test taker struggles writing an essay, is it their skill at chemistry or German?” That same low score might tell completely different stories: one of a language barrie...[Read More]