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Principals, Don’t Let AI Undermine Strong Parent Relationships (Opinion)
Yes, AI can be a useful tool for school communications, but nothing replaces a real conversation.
Beyond the Classroom Walls: What Research Says About Virtual Field Trips
By: James Fester Without thinking too hard I’m sure most of us can recall one or two meaningful days we spent outside of the classroom at a museum, theater, or nature center that provide us with a learning experience impossible to re-create from insi...[Read More]
How Student Feedback Shaped New Features for English Language Learners in Math
By: Olivia Martens What if teachers had the resources to give every student the individualized support they need to succeed? For many it’s an ideal that seems out of reach. That’s because teachers today are responsible for keeping students with diver...[Read More]
Early Childhood Education Teachers Grapple with Screen Time
When the American Academy of Pediatrics updated its guidelines around screen time for children and teenagers for the first time in 10 years this past January, many teachers and educators applauded the news. The document focused less on television and...[Read More]
How Much Time Are Students Spending on Tech in Classrooms?
Schools are wrestling with the backlash against students’ classroom screen time.
Schools Are Testing the Past: How Assessment Must Evolve for Writing, Speaking, and Listening in the AI Age
Our son Robert took the annual Arizona state writing test. The browser was locked. The tabs were closed. The phone was away. No notes, no search, no chatbot. Then he enters the world the test claims to prepare him for. There, writing rarely begins wi...[Read More]
What Does AI Cost When We Skip the Work?
Every few months, another headline declares the college degree dead. This Week with EdSurge examines what still holds up when artificial intelligence moves fast, through two guests who are both defending something slow against something fast. A Four ...[Read More]
We Must Stop Using AI to ‘Level-Down’ Our Students
No one would remember the line, “Keep being good and special, Ponyboy. Don’t change.” It just doesn’t hit the same as S.E. Hinton’s classic line, “Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.” Many English teachers, myself included, would consider it an atrocity ...[Read More]
The Language Barrier Is the Real Barrier in Edtech
When I started looking closely at the learning platforms schools ask families to use, I noticed something easy to miss if it doesn’t affect you: almost all of them are built in English first. For families who speak Spanish at home, that one fact quie...[Read More]
Steward Stories: Spotlight on Providence After School Alliance
Our “Steward Stories” series captures lessons learned from interviews with leaders of mature, purpose-built ecosystem intermediaries. An ecosystem steward is a boundary-spanning leader who goes beyond traditional out-of-school time (OST) system build...[Read More]
When AI Chases Test Scores, What Gets Left Behind?
A few days ago I read about proposed legislation to use generative AI to raise student test scores in North Carolina. That same day, I reached the midway point in Robert Wright’s extraordinary new book, The God Test: Artificial Intelligence and Our C...[Read More]
These Hip-Hop Artists Were Already Teaching
For decades, hip-hop artists have been invited into schools as guest speakers, workshop leaders and visiting performers. They’ve mentored young people after school; started nonprofits; taught music production, poetry, history and entrepreneurship; an...[Read More]