Why Giving My Students More Choice Was the Most Punk Rock Thing I Could Do
“Back in school, you ever get busted for trying to walk and have some administrator tell you, ‘Son, you can shirk your obligations and try to be different from your peers, but the responsibility of your future is gonna find you!’” These are the opening lyrics to Operation Ivy’s song, “Gonna Find You.” As the seminal punk band so adequately expressed for millions of teens across the country, ...[Read More]
PBLWorks Launches Web-based App to Help Scale Project-Based Learning
PBLWorks, the provider of professional development for project-based learning (PBL), has introduced PBLWorks TEACH, a web-based application that provides ready-to-use, standards-aligned PBL projects for middle school math, science, English language arts, and social studies.
Meta Assembling ‘Superintelligence Group’ to Pursue Artificial General Intelligence
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is forming a team focused on achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), amid internal dissatisfaction with the performance of its current AI offerings. The team, known internally as the superintelligence group, is part of a broader effort to enhance Meta’s AI capabilities.
In Dallas, a Big Thought is Brewing About How Cities Can Help Their Children Grow
In the cultural and commercial hub that is Dallas, Texas — home of the NFL’s Cowboys, site of JFK’s assassination, and land of the Big Oil VIPs — one out of every four residents is under the age of eighteen. One of them is Kismet Jayce “KJ” Hudson, a confident and creative seventeen-year-old with his eyes set on a career in film. And although his hometown’s public school district is doing all it c...[Read More]
Through Comedy Classes, Students Take ‘Big Swings’ for Mental Health
“If you were an object, what object would you be?” Chris Gethard, a veteran comedian and improv teacher, posed this question to a group of high school students in Northern California at a Laughing Together workshop he was leading. He remembered one who identified as a fruit. “When I was a kid, I convinced myself that I hated avocados,” Gethard remembered the student saying. “And then I tried one, ...[Read More]
How Teachers Are Making Computer Science Click
“Let’s do it!” That was Alexis Johnson’s reaction when she saw professional learning opportunities focused on computational thinking. A first grade teacher with no formal CS background, she jumped at the chance to explore how computer science principles could enhance early literacy instruction — and ended up transforming her classroom in the process. Johnson is one of several Utah educators discov...[Read More]
Report Identifies Malicious Use of AI in Cloud-Based Cyber Threats
A recent report from OpenAI identifies the misuse of artificial intelligence in cybercrime, social engineering, and influence operations, particularly those targeting or operating through cloud infrastructure. In “Disrupting Malicious Uses of AI: June 2025,” the company outlines how threat actors are weaponizing large language models for malicious ends — and how OpenAI is pushing back.
HMH Forms Educator Council to Inform AI Tool Development
Adaptive learning company HMH has established an AI Educator Council that brings together teachers, instructional coaches and leaders from school district across the country to help shape its AI solutions.
Beyond the Grade: How One Stone’s Growth Framework Empowers Learners for Life
By: Celeste Bolin, Susan Haws, Sophie Gunther, Lauren Mansfield, Raya Naymik As microschools around the world take up the challenge of designing and delivering educational experiences that meet the needs of 21st-century learners, they are inevitably considering not only what they teach, but also why and how. While each microschool is unique, common themes emerge. Generally, the what refers to a mo...[Read More]
Nonprofit LawZero to Work Toward Safer, Truthful AI
Turing Award-winning AI researcher Yoshua Bengio has launched LawZero, a nonprofit aimed at developing AI systems that prioritize safety and truthfulness over autonomy.
Schools Can’t Find Teachers. Do States Need More Credential Rules or Fewer?
For Aspire Public Schools in Los Angeles, the turnaround took a couple of years. Coming back from the pandemic, the 11 charter schools serving about 4,400 students saw a steep drop in credentialed teachers sticking with their roles. So relying on a program at Alder Graduate School of Education that pays graduate students to work as teachers-in-training, Aspire built an internal pipeline of new edu...[Read More]
I’ve Taught Gen Z for Almost a Decade. I’m Split on the So-Called Gen Z ‘Split’
No generation is a monolith. That should go without saying. But over the past year, there’s been a growing narrative in business and media circles that Gen Z, a cohort born between 1997 and 2012, is starting to split in two. One half is described as entrepreneurial, image-conscious and highly motivated. The other is labeled cautious, emotionally overwhelmed or disengaged from traditional career am...[Read More]