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.
At the Future of Education Technology Conference (FETC), three school leaders are bringing student-led sessions to demonstrate exactly what this looks like in practice—across grade levels and learning models.
Embedding executive functioning throughout the school day lightens the load for educators, empowering them to teach more effectively and foster meaningful student growth.
The goal is not to ban AI, but to integrate it into the writing process to deepen critical thinking, strengthen authenticity and keep students as the primary authors of their work.
As expectations within STEM fields evolve in our technology and data-driven society, the traditional Algebra 2 course may not provide students headed to calculus with the problem-solving capability they will need in the future.
Soft skills nudged the phrase 21st century skills out of the K12 lexicon and now it's being replaced by this latest college-and-career-oriented buzzword: Durable skills.
We're likely to miss the root causes of drops in test scores and other issues because we don't often collect 'warm data' about how our students are feeling.