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The Ozempic Problem: The Generative AI Norms Forming in Silence, and How Youth and Adults Can Shape Them
By: Shereen El Mallah, Jenny Poon, and youth authors Alex Mathew, and Adora Olise This year, Ms. Chen started using AI to provide feedback on student writing. It saved her two hours a week and ensured that the last essay in the stack received the same quality of feedback as…
Kinds of Thinking (& Prompts for More Thinking)
Eight kinds of thinking—from strategic to intuitive—that help educators, leaders, and learners make wiser decisions in complex contexts.
What If the Rules About How Teachers Work Together Were Also Just Made Up?
Bay Area schools are redesigning teacher collaboration to personalize learning, strengthen instruction, and improve educator sustainability.
Access without Action: How Toxic Mindsets Stop Learners from Realizing Their Potential
How fixed mindsets and shame block math progress, even when support exists, and what educators can do to turn access into action.
The Quiet Quitting Principal: What Districts Can Do to Re-Engage School Leadership
How districts can spot principal disengagement early and support re-engagement to protect instructional quality, morale, and student outcomes.
A Hopeful Vision For Better-Designed Schools
By Danish Kurani This article is an adapted excerpt from the book The Spaces That Make Us: Why Design Is Broken and How We Can Create a Happier, Healthier World. From the first day of kindergarten to the day students complete high school, they spend approximately fifteen thousand hours…
America is Updating Teaching Standards Without a Clear Picture of the Future Educator
Future educator preparation must evolve for AI, learner agency, and new learning models with clearer standards, exemplars, and pathways.
In Kansas City, Real World Learning Finds Champions on Both Sides of the State Line
Real World Learning unites Kansas City educators and employers to expand Market Value Assets and prepare students for joyful careers.
A Call to Action for AI to Promote Mathematical Reasoning
AI math tools should infer student reasoning and guide conceptual change—beyond “show-and-tell” personalization.
When Reality Meets Possibility: Inside the Ecosystem Lab
Learner-centered ecosystems are already emerging—Ecosystem Lab helps leaders connect partnerships and pathways across communities.