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.
Living the Portrait Together: The Power of Parallel Pedagogy
Portrait of a Graduate succeeds when educators practice the same competencies they ask students to develop.
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.
The Formulaic Trap: Why AI Finds Your Assignments Easy
AI exposes formulaic assignments by completing them easily, pushing educators to design more human, contextual, inquiry-rich learning.
Addressing Symptoms but not Problems: How Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Fawn Shape the Modern Classroom
How fear of screen time and AI shapes school responsesโand why education must address structural challenges, not just devices. and why education must address structural challenges, not just devices.
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.
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…
Changing Work Flow of Schools
AI in schools wonโt matter until school workflow changesโshifting from fixed instruction to adaptive, personalized learning systems.
Kinds of Thinking (& Prompts for More Thinking)
Eight kinds of thinkingโfrom strategic to intuitiveโthat help educators, leaders, and learners make wiser decisions in complex contexts.