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CoSN Announces 2026 Top Topics in K-12 Innovation
The Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) has released an advance look at its 2026 “top topics” driving innovation in K-12 education.
A Graduate Portrait Names What We Value. Our Learning System Shows That We Mean It.
A Portrait of a Graduate identifies the traits we want for our students, but it remains just a vision without intentional pathways within our educational system. Student experiences reveal what a system truly values. Consider the student who revises ...[Read More]
Beyond Easy Answers: How AI Can Deepen Learning
When Dr. Carolina Gutierrez’s physics students used artificial intelligence to solve problems, something unexpected happened: The answers were wrong. But instead of provoking frustration, those mistakes sparked the kind of learning teachers hop...[Read More]
Is it Possible to Make Learning as Addictive as TikTok?
It’s 2005, and the computer room has been vibrating for two hours straight, my fingers gliding across the keyboard copying HTML and Java code while jamming to the latest R&B CD I burned. No, I’m not a computer programming wiz — I’m designing my M...[Read More]
Teaching Sex Education in Schools Is More Fraught Than Ever
Krystalyn Musselman holds a worn cardboard box up to the screen on our Zoom call. It’s the anonymous question box she relies on to field queries from high schoolers at Tecumseh Public Schools in southeast Michigan, where she teaches sex ed. The box, ...[Read More]
Chile Becomes Latest Country to Ban Smartphones During Class
The new law will take effect next year.
What is the Role of School Counselors in the Age of AI?
When I was a teenager, the idea of revealing my innermost thoughts and feelings to another human being was beyond comprehension. Now that I’m an adult, the idea of revealing those same secrets to an artificial being is almost inconceivably strange. B...[Read More]
The Power of Participation: Why Public Leadership and Civic Readiness is a Solution to our Schools’ Engagement Problem
Education is at an inflection point. For decades, we have structured learning around content delivery—standardized, decontextualized, and increasingly disconnected from the real world. But a rapidly changing global landscape demands something differe...[Read More]
6 Ways to Energize STEM Classrooms
How can schools make STEM exciting and relevant in preK-12 classrooms, without overwhelming teachers? Here are a few suggestions.
What Students Actually Want From Edtech — and Why We Should Listen
Imagine spending thousands of dollars on an edtech product for your school or district that promises to transform student learning, only to watch students struggle to engage with it. It’s a scenario we’ve heard about repeatedly from educators. While ...[Read More]
Education’s Netflix Moment: A “Yes, And” Approach for Assessment System Innovation
States and school systems considering the future of assessment find themselves in a position somewhat analogous to Netflix circa 2007. Netflix had a thriving DVD-by-mail service. It kept that approach while simultaneously embracing the future by intr...[Read More]
New Learning: Characteristics Of An Innovative Classroom
From content to thought, linear learning to spiral learning, and grading to micrograding, here are possible characteristics of an innovative classroom.