Howard Dvorsky

Starting this month, millions of adults and children are at risk of losing food access provided through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) without a congressional deal to fund the federal government. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. That means the meals served up daily by school cafeterias may suddenly take on extra significance. They are a vital source of nutrit...[Read More]

By Wes Davis One year after Hurricane Helene tore through Western North Carolina, the visible scars of the storm remain. Families are still displaced. Some school buildings sit empty. But across the mountains, educators and communities are working on something less visible and far more lasting: weaving resilience into the future of learning. The WNC Resilience Project, launched in the wake of Hele...[Read More]

Even as a kid, Richie Graham was different.  In the football-crazed landscape of Southeast Pennsylvania, he preferred to play soccer.  And amidst a topography that was more about rolling hills than steep slopes, he aspired to become an Olympic skier. Yet aside from his atypical hobbies, Graham also possessed an atypical drive: one that led him to leave home early in pursuit of his dreams, and one ...[Read More]

Microsoft and OpenAI have announced they are redefining their partnership as part of a major recapitalization effort aimed at preparing for the arrival of artificial general intelligence (AGI).

At the high school where Marissa Garcia works as a mental health navigator, she manages a caseload of 20 to 40 students. Each week, Garcia meets one-on-one with these students, who have been flagged for slipping attendance, low classroom engagement or another behavior that suggests they might benefit from regular support. She sits and talks with them, trying to understand the barriers that keep th...[Read More]

Bloom’s Spiraling is the process of starting first at lower levels of Bloom’s–recalling, defining, explaining, etc.–and then progressively increasing the level of thinking. Source

Assessment and research organization NWEA recently launched a free dashboard tracking national trends and data on U.S. student academic achievement and growth.

The use of AI is working its way into nearly all school district jobs.

Professional learning platform Edthena has introduced Observation Copilot, an AI tool for principals designed to streamline the process of writing up framework-aligned teacher feedback from classroom observation notes.

“W-el…c-come. Mmm..my? Welcome? Mi? Welcome, Mi! That’s Daddy!” An EdSurge column by Mi Aniefuna My 4-year-old nestled beside me as I swam through the sea of tabs on my laptop. My email tab popped up, and “Welcome, Mi” flashed at the top of the screen. My eyebrows furrowed, wondering why my 4-year-old was calling me by my first name. And where was she welcoming me to? Then I recognized the sounds ...[Read More]

Mason Pashia: If you listen to this show regularly, you know I’m a huge fan of sharing stories of what’s possible. Unfortunately, our media landscape has a negativity bias, often summed up with the term “if it bleeds, it leads.” Journalists around the globe are uniting under the umbrella of “solutions journalism” to shift this paradigm, capturing stories of what’s possible through publications and...[Read More]

Two bills in Congress aim to build guardrails for kids’ use of artificial intelligence.