Blog
Nurturing Change during Challenging Times: Centering Young and Adult Learners
In 2019, Gallup demonstrated that schools are facing an engagement crisis as fewer than 50% of students and only 1 out of 3 teachers report being engaged in school. With the recent pandemic, these statistics are certainly much worse. According to Gallup, when schools can engage students, learners are 4.5 times more likely to be hopeful about their futures than their unengaged peers. For teachers, their engagement results in low absenteeism and employee turnover, both key metrics in the national teacher shortage (Gallup, 2019).
AI Could Save Education (But Not In the Way You Think)
For those who weren’t paying attention, November 2022 may have come and gone like any other month, but secondary teachers felt the tremors. Researchers at OpenAI had been developing a generative AI system for years, but it only took five days for ChatGPT to reach one million users. It reached 100 million users in two months. In the blink of an eye, students had a new power…
Bringing it Home
Surveying the landscape of conventional schooling in America today, it’s clear that we are no longer in a time of local theaters producing local shows. While there are certainly differences in regional textbooks, statewide tests, and local school calendars, overall the system is remarkably standardized. The electives may differ, but most schools still require the same core content. There may be opportunities for personalization, but as a rule, schools still batch-feed students by birthday. We may not have intended to, but we have all tuned in to the same show.