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Coalition Before Consensus: How Trust and Shared Ownership Sustain Transformation
System transformation rarely fails because of a bad strategy. It fails because the relationships needed to sustain it were never built. In this piece, Rebecca Midles and Nate McClennen draw on real district leaders to show what coalition-building actually looks like when the messy middle arrives. From a rural Michigan superintendent who started with the willing to a Kansas City microschool that put students in the design seat, this is a practical and deeply human look at what makes change last.
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…
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.
When Reality Meets Possibility: Inside the Ecosystem Lab
Learner-centered ecosystems are already emerging—Ecosystem Lab helps leaders connect partnerships and pathways across communities.