A board can meet on a consistent schedule, receive a thorough update, and still have no way to tell whether the plan it approved is actually happening.
School districts are bringing AI into the classroom often before state officials develop detailed guidance on privacy, approved tools and teacher training.
Computational thinking teaches kids how to build a solution. Critical thinking teaches them how to question it. In a world where AI hands students answers in seconds, they need both.
We now engage technology through conversation: We ask a question, reconsider what we meant, offer context and follow a thought somewhere we did not expect to go.
Superintendent Jharrett Bryantt is leaving Alaska's Anchorage School District after four years to take the helm of Alexandria City Public Schools in Virginia.