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Report: AI Security Spend Surges While Traditional Security Budgets Shrink
A new report from global cybersecurity company Thales reveals that while enterprises are pouring resources into AI-specific protections, only 8% are encrypting the majority of their sensitive cloud data — leaving critical assets exposed even as AI-dr...[Read More]
Learning Conducive to Life: A Radical Approach at the Biomimicry for Regenerative Design Lab at Green Schools Bali
By: Benjamin Freud “Change without change” is a concept in physics that says you can alter how you describe something mathematically, but the actual outcomes remain exactly the same. This also occurs in education when we change posters and measuremen...[Read More]
I Embraced AI in My Community College English Class — and My Students Loved It
My 12-year-old twins can prompt ChatGPT with alarming fluency. They’ve generated AI music, transformed family photos into wispy Van Gogh-style portraits, and built a chatbot that mimics their favorite anime characters. As their mother, I’d love to sa...[Read More]
Most Students Now Face Cellphone Limits at School. What Happens Next?
New state policies to restrict cellphone use in schools are driven by bipartisan support.
Teaching What the World Needs: How Neuroscience, Student Leadership, and Productive Struggle Prepare Learners for What’s Next
By: Kurt Wismer “The highest-priority skills for the future aren’t technical. They’re human.” — World Economic Forum, Future of Jobs Report 2025 What if we measured student success not by their GPA or seat time, but by their ability to lead themselve...[Read More]
A Short History Of Education Technology
Selected Timeline of Educational Technology (2000–2025) Selected Timeline of Educational Technology (2000–2025) Related: Modern Classroom Technology Trends | Using Technology Effectively in Learning | Bloom’s Digital Verbs 2000–2003 Digital tools beg...[Read More]
7 Teaching Secrets For Long-Term Growth
What Are The Teaching Secrets For Long-Term Growth? by Terry Heick This post has been updated from a version published in 2013 Good teaching is a major undertaking. Make no mistake–teaching has never been easy. But as we come upon 2014, as a professi...[Read More]
Data Shows More Discipline, Less College Prep for Students With Disabilities
Roughly 1 out of every 7 children in public school has an identified disability, according to a recent analysis, but both traditional public and charter schools have a long way to go to provide equal opportunities for those students — which they have...[Read More]
How One Principal Got Kids to Pay Attention in Class
Utah principal Shauna Haney brought about one of the first classroom cellphone bans in the state.
If you like creative writing, I made a Substack
In addition to my work at TeachThought, I also write creative nonfiction, essays, and—more recently—poetry. I’ve presented my work at the University of Louisville Literacy Conference in 2019, 2021, 2023, and 2024. If you’re into creative writing, I’v...[Read More]
Teaching Is Human Work. Systems Aren’t Built for That.
Teachers are the great translators of learning–mediators that speak in binary code for the system and in human tongue for the children. Source
Developing Confident Students Using Gradual Release Of Responsibility
To use the Gradual Release of Responsibility model, students need to see others using it and who better to model it but you? Source