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Most schools have an IT department. Fewer have a dedicated technology committee. That distinction matters more than many administrators realize. When a school relies solely on its IT staff to guide technology decisions, it misses the perspective that educators, curriculum leaders, and even parents bring to the table. The result is often technology that works […]

When most school administrators think about technology leadership, they point to their IT department. That team handles the network, fixes broken Chromebooks, and makes sure the student information system stays online. Those responsibilities matter. But here is the problem: an IT department alone cannot decide whether your school should adopt a new learning management system, […]

I have sat through enough technology committee meetings to know the pattern. A group of well-meaning educators spends months drafting a document that checks every compliance box, gets signed by the superintendent, and then collects dust on a server drive somewhere. Two years later, someone asks where the technology plan is, and nobody can find […]

Understanding What Changed in 2025 and Why It Matters to Your Classroom Last year, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy released an advisory that formalized what many of us have been observing for years: social media is affecting our students’ mental health in measurable ways. The advisory pointed to research showing a 66% increased risk […]

The Momentum Is Real, But So Are the Growing Pains Let me tell you what I’m seeing in my own school district and hearing from colleagues across the country. The Science of Reading movement has gone from being a fringe conversation among literacy specialists to a full-fledged policy mandate. Forty states have now enacted legislation […]

The Promise and the Reality Check When Khanmigo first launched as Khan Academy’s GPT-4-powered tutoring assistant, there was palpable excitement in the education world. Here was a tool that could, theoretically, give every student a personalized tutor available at 2 AM on a Tuesday when they’re stuck on their homework. By the end of 2025, […]

The Study Strategy Gap We Keep Ignoring Here’s something that keeps me up at night as an educator: we have never had more rigorous, accessible research about how learning actually works, yet our students are still grinding away with the least effective strategies imaginable. They’re highlighting textbooks. They’re re-reading notes. They’re cramming the night before […]

Before diving into the specifics, it’s worth establishing why this particular development sits at an intersection that education audiences — more than most — are positioned to understand. Before the Opinion, the Numbers Opinions without data are just feelings, and feelings make for entertaining arguments but terrible predictions. The AI character chat space has fragmented […]

The Data Point That Should Shift How We Talk About Education Let me start with something that genuinely surprised me when I first saw the 2025 analysis from the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce. Within three years of graduation, students who earned associate degrees in healthcare technology, advanced manufacturing, and cybersecurity are earning […]

The Moment Everything Got Easier (And That’s the Problem) When OpenAI released the o3 model this past April, something shifted in my classroom that I didn’t expect. The model scored 87.5% on the ARC-AGI benchmark, a test that researchers had designed specifically to measure human-level reasoning. That’s not just a number on a dashboard somewhere—it […]