Each week I write about what is surfacing in schools because of AI — the patterns no one is naming, the decisions leaders are being forced to make, and what educators can take from the moment.
This is a curated selection of those newsletters. The full archive lives on LinkedIn, where the weekly conversation continues.
Every AI tool a teacher adopts is also a decision about where student information goes. This issue reframes everyday classroom tool choices as cybersecurity decisions schools are already making — whether they realize it or not.
The nation's largest public school system just drew a firmer line around student AI access. This issue asks the question behind the restriction: what exactly are schools trying to protect — and can their teachers explain why the line is there?
Most school AI conversations focus on what the technology can produce. This issue draws the boundary on the other side: the judgments, relationships, and responsibilities that must remain human — and how to design systems around that decision.
No policy says teachers must use AI — but the culture is starting to. This issue names the unwritten expectation forming in schools and asks whether an educator who chooses not to use AI can still be considered highly effective.
Digital citizenship taught students to behave responsibly online. AI is asking them to do something different — evaluate, question, and direct a system that talks back. This issue separates two literacies schools are about to merge by mistake.
Before asking a teacher, many students are checking with AI first — and beginning to treat it as the authority on whether their work is good enough. This issue looks at what happens to the learning relationship when the fastest answer wins.
Student work that does not match the learner is arriving daily, and many schools have quietly stopped responding. This issue names what is happening, why the systems are not holding up, and what leaders can actually do this month.
Education is moving forward fast, and AI has genuinely helped many educators. And still, many are carrying a grief almost no one names. This issue gives that feeling language — and a practical way to move with it.
Teachers once built everything by hand. AI now produces scaffolds, leveled texts, and model responses in seconds. This issue shows how the saved time shifts the teacher's role from building materials to building thinkers.
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