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When Reality Meets Possibility: Inside the Ecosystem Lab
By: Alin Bennett Reality Meets Possibility On the second morning of an Education Reimagined Ecosystem Lab site visit to Colorado, our group gathered inside a small learning community called La Luz. What struck us immediately was the intentionality of...[Read More]
Designing for Belonging: Lessons from Districts Building What Technology Can’t Replace
Last week, we joined the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools for their latest convening right here in our backyard. The contrast was not lost on us as we were sitting just a few miles from the glass towers where engineers are busy building t...[Read More]
Can’t. Will. Did.: How One Teacher-Mountaineer Is Bringing Social-Emotional Learning Outdoors
By: Zach Varnell In August 2021, on the West Ridge of Mount Stuart in Washington State, Kimber Cross was running out of time, water, and altitude. Off-route in 97-degree heat, her heart rate had climbed to 180 beats per minute. Her climbing partner —...[Read More]
Microsoft, RSA Updates Focus on Identity Security in the Age of AI
Two authentication announcements coming out of the recent RSA Conference both point in the same direction: Organizations need a more flexible, unified approach to identity security, especially as AI agents start acting alongside human workers.
As a Tool of Productivity, AI Can Make the Effort to Learn More Meaningful
I want to share a story of struggle. Actually, two kinds of struggle. My father completed his doctorate at the University of Utah in the early 1970s. For his dissertation, he ran a statistical analysis on genealogical records to determine the impact ...[Read More]
Making Work-Based Learning Work: Georgia’s Novel Approach to WBL Data
Editor’s Note: In all platform images, student and employer names have been altered to preserve privacy. While far better than nothing, work-based learning (WBL) has a credibility problem. A student completes an internship, clocks their hours, gets a...[Read More]
Too Many Tools, Not Enough Impact: Districts Rethink Their Edtech Stacks
On a recent evening in suburban Chicago, a group of parents, teachers and administrators gathered to talk about something that, until recently, rarely drew this level of public scrutiny: the role of technology in their schools. The meeting was part o...[Read More]
Why IEP supports Can Fail—And What Teachers Can Do About It
What worked in elementary school often assumes a level of adult scaffolding that middle school systems quietly remove.
Educational fMRIs: Dynamic Pedagogy and Pedagogical Analysis in the Multimodal AI Era
My deepest convictions about educational assessment were shaped outside the classroom with my late wife of seven decades, Dr. Susan Gordon M.D., a pediatrician. I watched her treat a diagnosis of medical status as a starting point for understanding, ...[Read More]
I Tell My Students Writing Is Hard. I Still Ask Them to Do It Anyway.
My life has changed so much since my time as a Voices of Change fellow during the 2023 school year. As I wrote in my final essay of the fellowship, the beautiful, imperfect school I loved and helped build had closed. With the support of my fellowship...[Read More]
What Are The College Degree Levels?
Overview of associate, bachelor’s, master’s, doctoral, and professional degrees: definitions, and typical length/credit requirements.
Can AI Support Student Learning? Depends Who You Ask (Opinion)
Ed tech is supposed to give teachers more time to mentor. It’s not clear if it does.