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Build Your Own EdTech: Why the Future is Local
Think back to 2023, 2024, and 2025, the EdTech market was flooded with what we now affectionately call “AI wrappers.” These were sleek at first sight, user-friendly web apps that essentially put a nice interface over a standard API call to generate lesson plans, differentiated reading passages, worksheets, and quizzes for the classroom. They felt…
How to Use NotebookLM to Conduct Smarter WASC Accreditation Reviews and Visits
Over the past year, I have integrated Google’s NotebookLM into my WASC review workflow, and the results have fundamentally changed how I prepare, analyze, and report before, during, and after my visits. This is not a post about replacing professional judgment: it is about amplifying it. What follows is the process I now use, phase…
NotebookLM as Your School’s Brain: A Mission Control for Leaders Who Are Serious About Improvement
Most schools do not have a data problem. They have a synthesis problem of putting it all together in one location. The attendance reports live in one system. The benchmark assessments live in another. The LCAP goals are in a PDF somewhere. The department meeting notes from October are in a shared drive folder that…
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