EdTech
The Shift from Informed to Involved: NewSchools Summit as a Call For Agency and Collective Action
Discover how participants at the NewSchools Summit engaged with AI, shifting from users to innovators in technology.
Equity & Access
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…
Leadership
Changing Work Flow of Schools
AI in schools won’t matter until school workflow changes—shifting from fixed instruction to adaptive, personalized learning systems.
Smart Teachers
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.
Leadership
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.
Equity & Access
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.
Ed Policy
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.
Personalized Learning
From Understanding to Ownership: When Students Tell Their Story through the Portrait of a Graduate
Public demonstrations help students show Portrait of a Graduate skills through authentic reflection, ownership and learner-centered assessment.
Learner-Centered
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…
Ed Policy
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.