Posts by Tom Vander Ark
How can we reimagine where learning happens? Designing schools as community hubs within a personalized ecosystem
Exploring schools as community hubs, integrating real-world and digital resources for a personalized learning ecosystem.
How Can AI Fuel Deeper Learning? A Conversation with Kali Frederick and Aatash Parikh
Exploring AI's impact on education, deeper learning, and project-based learning with insights from High Tech High and Inkwire's leaders.
How AI Supports Deeper Learning: Reflections from the AI K-12 Deeper Learning Summit
AI in education empowers deeper learning by enhancing critical thinking, creativity, and collaboration, transforming educational experiences.
Uplift Education Launches Health Pathways
Uplift Education's new health pathways program offers students career-ready skills in healthcare via work-based learning and dual enrollment.
How AI is Changing Learning Goals
Explores how AI is reshaping education, emphasizing curiosity, agency, and AI management as essential skills for future learning and work.
New in 2025 and What Edleaders Should Do About It
In 2025, education leaders must navigate AI advancements, prioritize civic education, and foster work-based learning to prepare students for a rapidly changing world.
Impact Projects at Northeastern University
Engaging students in impact-driven projects is one of the most effective ways to cultivate valuable skills while developing what Charles Fadel refers to as the key Drivers of learning: Motivation, Identity, Agency, and Purpose. These Drivers are increasingly recognized as essential in Education for the Age of AI,…
Let High Schoolers Do Less? Let High Schoolers Experience More
Redesign high schools with personalized learning and real-world experiences to better prepare students for college and careers.
4 Promises Drive Rural School Transformation at Eastern Hancock Schools
30 miles east of Indianapolis sits the charming little town of Greenfield—a few hundred buildings at the intersection of Highway 40 and State Route 9 including a grain silo converted into a popular local restaurant. Another 15 minutes east between tall rows of corn, you’ll come to the campus of…
Why We Need More New Schools (Even with Enrollments Down and Closures Ahead)
A landscape of innovation in US K-12 education reveals traditional, efficiency, and future-ready models, highlighting new learner-centered ecosystems.