Posts by Guest Author
Prepare Your People, Protect Your People: Setting the Stage for Successful Change Management
In an era of rising resistance and restrictive legislation, asking educators to take risks without protecting them is not leadership, it is liability. Jennifer D. Klein, author of Taming the Turbulence in Educational Leadership, offers a clear-eyed framework for how school leaders can prepare their people with transformative professional learning, adapt systems to support innovation, and stand as a buffer when opposition arrives. This is the kind of piece that reminds education leaders why the soul of their work has always been human development, for adults as much as students.
Maritime | 253: Project-Based Learning at Port Scale
By: Deepti Reim The world of work is changing rapidly, requiring workers who can navigate evolving technologies, collaborate across disciplines, and adapt to increasingly complex operational systems. K-12 systems around the country are constantly trying to evolve alongside these changes, transforming Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs to better prepare students for life beyond the diploma.
Some Student Data Should Never Become Digital
By: Charles Fadel, Center for Curriculum Redesign Adapted from “Cognitive Security Architecture for Student Learning Data” Schools have been capturing student data for decades, and eventually will also use new applications such as Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) that can adapt to each student’s pace, performance,…
The Tyranny of College Admissions: Why It’s So Challenging to Have Real Change in K-12 Education
College admissions requirements keep K-12 tied to grades and Carnegie units, slowing competency-based and skills-first learning.
What If School Offered More? The Case for Community Schools
Community schools boost student success by connecting learning with mental health, family support, and local community resources.
The Conditions That Make Durable Skills Real: How Schools and Systems Build for Agency, Identity, and Vision
How schools build durable skills through authentic work, reflection, relationships, and learner-centered design.
What AI-Enabled Education Actually Looks Like When It’s Working for Workforce Students
How AI can make workforce pathways visible through competency records, labor market alignment, and clearer student-to-job outcomes.
How System Leaders Can Intentionally Design to Build Math Identity
How system leaders can improve math achievement by designing instruction that builds math identity, reasoning, and confidence.
Addressing Symptoms but not Problems: How Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Fawn Shape the Modern Classroom
How fear of screen time and AI shapes school responses—and why education must address structural challenges, not just devices. and why education must address structural challenges, not just devices.
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…