Howard Dvorsky

Like thinking, reading in the 21st century is endlessly linked in an increasingly visible web of physical and digital media forms.  Source

Artificial intelligence topped the list of state technology officials’ priorities for the first time in an annual survey.

Exasperating. Depressing. Predictable. That’s how experts describe the latest results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, also known as the “nation’s report card.” Considered a highly accurate window into student performance, the assessment has become a periodic reminder of declining academic success among students in the U.S., with the last several rounds accentuating yearslong ...[Read More]

School districts bought laptops and WiFi hotspots during the pandemic. Now many wonder how they will replace them.

Dewey believed that the psychological and social sides are related and that “education cannot be regarded as a compromise between the two.” Source

When the National Assessment of Educational Progress, often called the Nation’s Report Card, was released last year, the results were sobering. Despite increased funding streams and growing momentum behind the Science of Reading, average fourth grade reading scores declined by another two points from 2022. In a climate of growing accountability and public scrutiny, how can we do things differently...[Read More]

“I’ve never done this work alone,” I thought as I looked around the high school gymnasium at the other instructional coaches and school leaders. We had been given a critical, quick-write prompt to begin the professional learning session that asked: Who helped you grow the most in your profession? How did they help you grow? And how does that impact your work today? As I leaned toward my Chromebook...[Read More]

The purpose of these critical thinking question stems is to help students practice willingness to sit with an idea and struggle wonderfully. Source

The Trump administration has rolled back federal resources to prevent, and respond to, attacks.

20 years ago, a small, rural K-8 school district in Central California was told to build a high school or be dissolved. That was the impetus that the Chawanakee Unified School District board and superintendent needed to create what would become the innovative and award-winning Minarets High School / Minarets Charter High School.  The Challenge The vision began with the desire to create a very diff...[Read More]

Let me try to communicate what it feels like to be an English teacher in 2025. Reading an AI-generated text is like eating a jelly bean when you’ve been told to expect a grape. Not bad, but not… real. The artificial taste is only part of the insult. There is also the gaslighting. Stanford professor Jane Riskin describes AI-generated essays as “flat, featureless… the literary equivalent of fluoresc...[Read More]

How students and teachers can learn to put a human touch on everything AI produces.