Howard Dvorsky

Public education leaders face unprecedented challenges in today’s political climate, with every decision under scrutiny and public trust in schools declining. This environment has led to high superintendent turnover, as politics tops the list of stressors for educators. To address these issues, the Center for Innovation in Education (C!E) and Getting Smart have partnered to offer a webinar series,...[Read More]

In a recent CoSN survey, an overwhelming majority of ed tech leaders (94%) said they see AI as having a positive impact on education. Respondents ranked generative AI as their top tech priority, with 80% reporting their districts have gen AI initiatives underway, or plan to in the current school year.

California’s Fremont Union High School District recently announced that construction has begun on a new Robotics Facility on the campus of Cupertino High School. The 14,500-square-foot facility will serve students at high schools across the entire district, providing purpose-built spaces for student creativity and collaboration.

Here are six good starting points for K-12 districts that want to improve their cybersecurity mitigation strategies and take a more proactive approach to mitigating risk.

Lexington Senior High School, thirty miles south of Winston-Salem, is the proud home of the Yellow Jackets.  Built in 1953, it’s surrounded by small neighborhood houses with well-kept yards. An armada of yellow school buses line up daily outside its doors, while inside, a network of double-loaded hallways host rigid rows of lockers — one for each of its 900 students. It is, in other words, a textb...[Read More]

Career and Technical Education (CTE) is at a turning point. What once lived on the margins of academic planning is now front and center in national conversations around workforce development, education equity and student well-being. As a former CTE educator and now working on CTE at Pearson, I’ve watched this evolution up close. Districts aren’t just experimenting with a few technology or agricult...[Read More]

The social media challenge has kids damaging school-issued devices.

The writer Annie Dillard is often attributed with the quote: “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” For Dillard, the beauty is in the details, and so is the learning. Social media and algorithms have led to the curation and proliferation of our best and most optimized moments, a form of personal propaganda that says, “We spend our days well, we spend our lives well,  do you...[Read More]

As the education world grapples with a post-pandemic academic recovery that has stalled in some regions, a new research paper is taking the measure of key players in students’ success: their teachers. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. Researchers are looking at whether teachers have what they need to thrive in “Teaching for Tomorrow: Educators on the Future of Their Profession,” pa...[Read More]

Games can serve as platforms for lessons in math, science or just about anything — even if they weren’t designed to be educational. Source

Students in Idaho’s Boise School District are learning how to analyze and think critically about the information they read through the use of Gale In Context.

A recent report from Microsoft reinforces warns of the critical role Active Directory (AD) domain controllers play in large-scale ransomware attacks, aligning with U.S. government advisories on the persistent threat of AD compromise.