For a few weeks last school year, a small group of students in Dayton, Ohio, regularly sat in front of laptops in conversation with a social-emotional learning chatbot named Jordan.
FETC unveils an agenda for human leadership in the age of AI—they technology can expand human capacity, but only people can decide which future schools should build.
Students who read more across genres, topics, and settings develop stronger comprehension, vocabulary, and background knowledge through repeated exposure to language, ideas, and complex texts.
Educators need ongoing opportunities to reflect on their instructional decisions, identify barriers to learning, and problem-solve alongside colleagues
Date & Time: Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 2 p.m. ET <br><br> In this session, explore the decoding threshold and how purposeful fluency practice can help students build the accuracy and automaticity needed to access increasingly complex text. Walk away with a clear, low-lift starting point your teams can try, evaluate, and eventually scale.
Once students have the self-assurance to engage in academic conversations with their peers, they have a framework they can apply to any text in any subject.
