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By: Timothy Jones I’ve been blessed with many opportunities to speak as an educator and an innovator. I want to take this opportunity to speak as an educator but from the lens of a parent. As a parent of two young adult children I often find myself reflecting on their educational experiences as I getContinue reading “To My Children: Letters From An Educator and Parent”

“I was told that I may lose my job unless I went back to school and got my high school diploma,” said Natalie Pinales, a resident of Durant, Oklahoma. As a young mom, Natalie had to forego completing high school on the typical timeline. Now working multiple jobs, she was told that not completing highContinue reading “Libraries as Community Learning Hubs: Connecting Students to Degrees and Opportunity”

We’re 18 months into the age of human-computer interaction, where reasoning engines, new forms of co-intelligence, are accessed through natural language. It’s clear that generative AI will reshape work and learning in ways we’re just beginning to understand. Announcements in May (from OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google) reinforced the cadence of new capabilities every six months. Continue reading “Make AI Literacy a Priority With These Free Resources”

We’ve been thinking a lot about microschools across the United States over the last few years, and certainly, they’ve garnered a lot of media attention. Certain policy moves and philanthropic attention have increased opportunities to reimagine the microschools that exist in the country and to launch hundreds of new microschools in both the public andContinue reading “Floating Microschools: Adaptive and Mobile Learning Environments”

What would it look like to fully integrate AI into a learning environment? In the last few months, we’ve seen a surge of announcements about the vast potential of AI in applications. With Microsoft’s Co-Pilot and Apple’s Apple Intelligence, some integrations are taking a system-wide approach, crafting entire AI operating systems and hardware.  Some districtsContinue reading “Learning Environments Don’t Just Need Generative AI, They Need an AI Operating System”

Remember those endless worksheets we all slogged through in school? They’re not inspiring and offer a limited snapshot of student understanding. Seeing surface-level learning worksheets coming home with my children is even more frustrating. These are not the types that capture rich learning experiences; they’re the fill-in-the-blank, multiple-choice versions that are easy to grade butContinue reading “Virtual Voyages: Augment and Virtual Reality Point Toward an Immersive Learning Future”

In 1969, a group of parents petitioned the Jefferson County School Board to establish a school that honored the development of the whole child. Since launching as an elementary school in the west Denver suburb of Arvada, the Open School has provided a vibrant learner-centered alternative. After adding high school grades, merging with similar schools,Continue reading “Jeffco Open School: A Journey of Six Learner-Designed Passages”

Imagine a bustling school gymnasium filled with parents, students, educators, and local community members. The energy is palpable as diverse voices share their hopes and dreams for the future of education in their community. A single parent juggling two jobs stands up to speak. Despite rarely attending school events due to their busy schedule, theyContinue reading “Portrait of a Community to Empower Learning Transformation “

Founded by Dick Collins in 1998 in Dallas, Istation rode the 15-year blended learning wave to become a leader in second-generation edtech by providing personalized and adaptive learning in K-8 reading and math.   Founded by Mark Angel in 2018, Amira Learning was the first intelligent reading assistant using predictive AI to provide personalized tutoring toContinue reading “Adaptive Leader Istation Joins AI-Powered Reading Tutor Amira Learning “

Long trend: student enterprise. NFTE, Uncharted Learning, CAPS Network, FFA, StartEdUp, WIT, and others have been supporting youth entrepreneurship in and out of school for decades. Student enterprise also has a long history in journalism student-led publications (see PalyMac), broadcasts, and more recently sports marketing. Entrepreneurship is a trending interest of Gen Z and isContinue reading “Student Enterprise: Invite Learners to Launch a Media Agency or Publication”