Claude for Teachers launched this month. Teachers can pull in assessment data, lesson plans, and standards from all 50 states, then ask an AI to build personalized instruction overnight. That’s powerful. It’s also the exact moment to be honest about what happens between the prompt and the classroom. I’ve written about this distinction from theContinueContinue reading “The Offloading Trap: Why You Must Audit Every AI-Generated Instructional Output”
Category Archives: AI & EdTech
Two Roads: What China and the U.S. Are Actually Doing With AI in Schools
A side-by-side reading of primary-source AI-in-education policy from both countries reveals a structural difference with real consequences for practice: China has a binding K-9 AI curriculum standard, prescriptive classroom guardrails, and explicit rural-equity funding. The U.S. has a state patchwork and federal encouragement. Both bets are uncertain. Both could learn from the other.
The Laptop on the Desk Already Runs a Model
Open-source models can run on school laptops today. Free, private, controllable. The technology is ready. The barrier is institutional, not technical.
Beyond the Hype: An Evidence-First Framework for AI Literacy in Education
An evidence-first framework for how educators should think about AI in the classroom — anchored in cognitive science, grounded in real research, and committed to pedagogy preceding tooling.
I Built a Personalized Study System with Claude. Here Is the Science Behind Why It Worked.
I built a personalized study system using Claude and cognitive science principles: retrieval practice, spaced repetition, cognitive load. Here’s what happened and why it worked.
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 magical at first, but they came with subscription costs, heavy enterprise costs for districts and schools, and lingering questions about student data privacy. Fast forward to today, and the script is entirely flipping. We are entering an era where the power to build, run, and maintain these tools is shifting directly into the hands of teachers and schools, and it is all happening locally.
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 by phase, to conduct reviews that are more evidence-grounded, more analytically rigorous, and ultimately more useful to the schools I serve.
NotebookLM as Your School’s Brain: A Mission Control for Leaders Who Are Serious About Improvement
📬 Stay in the loop Join educators getting weekly insights on AI, co-teaching, and instructional leadership. Subscribe 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 areContinueContinue reading “NotebookLM as Your School’s Brain: A Mission Control for Leaders Who Are Serious About Improvement”
From the Moon to the Mind: How Space Exploration Illuminates Learning
📬 Stay in the loop Join educators getting weekly insights on AI, co-teaching, and instructional leadership. Subscribe “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” — Neil Armstrong (1969) The Mission Control Mindset Picture a professional development session where teachers design instruction the way NASA engineers design a mission. The stakes areContinueContinue reading “From the Moon to the Mind: How Space Exploration Illuminates Learning”
Autonomous AI and (the Possible Future of AI in Schools): OpenClaw and Autonomous AI Agents
Over the last week, I have played extensively with Clawdbot, now aka Moltbot. Seeing AI that is THIS autonomous, and the work it has done has been mind-blowing. I have built numerous applications and have several tasks and projects that will be delivered to me daily. From research to applications ready to be delivered on my GitHub. Wow! In my opinion, this is where AI comes alive and goes outside the box.