Returning Joy to Teaching & Learning
Too many school-based reform efforts continue to have educators implicitly standing with the standards against the students. What does a school where its educators stand with the students against the standards look like?
Every Student Needs a Learning Coach
As learning becomes more personalized, learning opportunities expanded and unbounded, and learning science research more robust, an updated and revised advisory role is more important than ever.
Next Generation Online Learning Programs – Khan World School
Khan World School launched in August 2022 to build a more engaging and challenging middle and high school virtual experience. As a partnership between ASU Prep and Sal Khan, the learning model design includes mastery-based learning, seminars, concurrent-enrollment opportunities and tutorials in addition to online courses.
Uncovering Pathways for Students with Disabilities
When students with disabilities don’t have equitable access to early college opportunities, they miss out on significant benefits and any conversation about equity is incomplete without including students with disabilities.
What Happens When AI Doesn’t Understand Students? An example for creative and equitable AI policy in education
Artificial Intelligence (AI) bias is a challenge for the broad adoption of AI-based solutions in the classroom. Speech recognition technologies offer a specific example of where we can start crafting specific policy and solutions for developing effective and equitable education technologies to support teachers and improve student outcomes.
The Power of Process In Deeper Learning: A Case Study in Scaffolding
I walked into an 8th-grade classroom engaged in introspection, reflection, and metacognition. Here's what else I saw.
From Classroom to Career: Mastering Real-World Competencies through Alternative Learning
Russell Cailey shares his insights on the benefits of alternative approaches to learning in response to traditional education models and their inability to adapt to the students of the 21st century.
Embracing the DARPA Model for EdTech Innovation: Charting the Course with GPT-4 and Beyond
GPT-4 and other disruptive edtech applications will proliferate quickly and need innovative research and development programs to ensure they are safe, effective, and equitable. Adapting the DARPA model to education opens the door for rapid-cycle research and development programs that can keep up with the rapidly evolving technology landscape.
An Unexpected Pathway: How Life’s Design For Life Changed Mine
What if the purpose of school is and always has been to “create conditions conducive to life?”
Closing the Opportunity Gap with Access to College-Level Courses for Every High School Learner
Every high school student in the country deserves the opportunity to try a college course in high school.
