I don’t dare mention the number of weeks left, as it’s depressingly low for many of you. (Okay, it also feels too low even for the folks who go back after Labor Day. Shoutout to my fellow NYC folks!) And truthfully, I didn’t need to remind you, because somewhere in the back of your head, there's a countdown running. It happens every year around this time, and it’s dragging along the dreaded question: Is this school year going to be different? Or am I walking back into the exact same grind...

You've sat through a lot of professional development: some of it really good, some of it forgettable, some of it the kind where you're just counting the minutes until you can get into your classroom and WORK. I think about that a lot when I design teacher trainings. I want every moment of the day to be truly valuable and practical, and to respect not only your time, but your expertise. For the 2026-2027 school year, that looks like three specific things I'm bringing in-person to schools: 1....

This was a transformative year for a lot of people's workflows, and not just in the education industry. We've been through this kind of profound shift before during the pandemic, when everything in-person was suddenly online, and we had to collectively reimagine our entire workflows. Eventually we adjusted, then things changed again, similar to how they were before, but still a "new normal." (Ugh.) And now AI has been doing something similar, except this time it's not one big shift you adjust...