Districts are already making large financial investments into core programs. So why are they still buying more resources to make up for what their textbooks can’t do? Let’s be honest about what’s happening in classrooms right now. Traditional math textbooks adopted five years ago haven’t changed since. Teachers are drowning in supplemental tools: one for…
One of the highlights we’ve witnessed so far as we work with our Instructional Leadership Collectives (read more here), is how leaders are breaking down the isolation of working in a silo and seeing the impact of working in a collective. Take what’s going on with one of our collectives. Over the last few meetings,…
Many of our communities, including schools, teachers, students, and their families, are under assault by ICE and the Border Patrol. Now, that’s occurring in the Twin Cities, where ICE agents killed Renee Nicole Good last week. I’ve previously published accounts about the impacts of these attacks in Chicago and in North Carolina. Good’s killing and…
The percentage of teachers who are using artificial intelligence-driven tools in their classrooms nearly doubled between 2023 and 2025, according to data from the EdWeek Research Center. In 2023, a little more than a third of teachers (34%) said they used AI “a little,” “some,” or “a lot.” While the percentage dipped slightly in 2024…
The public schools in St. Mary Parish have been under a federal order to desegregate longer than Tia Paul has been alive. The oversight began in 1965, barring the school board from sending Black students like Paul’s mother to different schools from White students and requiring it to eliminate the effects of segregation. It continued…
Today’s post is continuing a series on the impact ICE crackdowns across the country are having on schools and their communities. Today, Minneapolis teacher Tracy Byrd shares how he, his school, and his students are coping with the massive influx of ICE agents into his city and in the aftermath of the Renee Nicole Good…
Today’s post is the latest in a series highlighting the impact of ICE crackdowns on schools, teachers, their students, and families. The previous two posts, and this one, focus on how Minnesota educators are dealing with the impact of thousands of federal immigration agents being sent into their communities and the recent shooting death of…
Uri Wilensky, Northwestern University’s Lorraine Morton Professor of Learning Science and Computer Science, recently won the 2025 Yidan Prize for Education Research. The $3.8 million prize, widely recognized as education’s Nobel Prize, was awarded for Wilensky’s work developing NetLogo—the most widely used agent-based modeling environment in education. (If you’re uncertain about just what that means,…
Hey Marketing Pals! Here we are. 2026. Two weeks in. How’s everyone holding up? There are 2 types of people in this world: those who love New Year’s resolutions and those who think they’re garbage. I love ‘em. My only problem? Whittling the list down and making the goals even remotely realistic. Same goes for…
Teachers tend to like strict cellphone policies. Restrictions on cellphone use help teachers manage classrooms better, making it so they don’t have to constantly police students who text and scroll throughout class. Plus, schoolwide bans seem to have improved students’ concentration and engagement with their peers, early research and anecdotal reports show. Researchers have found…
