Julian Vasquez Heilig has a powerful post over at Cloaking Inequity. Here are a few teaser paragraphs: Many of today’s anti-public education activists are not motivated by a desire to improve learning outcomes. They are motivated by a desire to restore a world they feel has...
You care deeply about your students and take pride in the work you do—but staying organized, focused, and efficient in the classroom doesn’t always come easy. That’s because teaching is a demanding, fast-paced profession, and most of us were never taught how to manage the workload...
If you want to stay calm and regulated when talking to your students to help them do the same? Here’s help. I am an elementary school teacher of about 6-ish years. I’ve worked in various towns and school settings throughout a few different roles as a...
AI offers exciting possibilities for transforming teaching and learning—but it also comes with real risks, especially around student safety, privacy, and well-being. That’s why Common Sense Media's new AI Risk Assessments are such a game-changer. These tools help educators make smarter, safer choices when using...
Spring 2025 Commencement was a good one. I was selected to be a Faculty Marshal again, which was super fun. And I got to say a final farewell to three amazing doctoral students and an awesome principal licensure cohort. Congratulations, Drs. Lychock, Manley, and Rivera...
Here is an excerpt from today’s New York Times article, How Miami Schools Are Leading 100,000 students Into the A.I. Future: Her class at Southwest Miami Senior High School had already read about John F. Kennedy and discussed his campaign for “new frontier” economic and social...
Colorado educators! (and anyone else within reasonable driving distance… looking at you, Nebraska, Wyoming, Kansas, New Mexico, and maybe Utah and Oklahoma!) We hope that you will join us for our June 2025 Teacher Leader Summit in Denver. On Thursday, June 5, we will be leaning...
Colorado Innovates is tomorrow! A FREE online conference featuring innovative, deeper learning schools across Colorado. No travel necessary… Each interactive, online conference session will emphasize one or more of the following: hands-on, active, experiential learning by students; high levels of student agency, voice, choice, and ownership; deep, robust student creativity,...
Books I finished reading (or rereading) in April 2025… The Battle Drum, Saara El-Arifi (fantasy) First Contact, Albert Zhang (science fiction) Sharp Ends, Joe Abercrombie (fantasy) The Great Change (and Other Lies), Joe Abercrombie (fantasy) City of Mist and Tears, Alex Robins (fantasy) The Trap, Ava Glass (thriller) The Jungle, David Drake...
Yesterday James Bedford reached out to me, noting that my AI vicious cycle was very similar to his AI Wheel of Death and asking me to give him proper attribution. Of course I was immediately horrified that I might have misappropriated James’ intellectual property… Here’s the...
