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.
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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”
I Turned My Dissertation Into a Podcast Using NotebookLM
📬 Stay in the loop Join educators getting weekly insights on AI, co-teaching, and instructional leadership. Subscribe I recently experimented with Google NotebookLM to transform my dissertation on the data literacy of educational leaders into a 12-minute NPR-style podcast. The process was remarkably simple: I uploaded the PDF of my dissertation, and within moments, NotebookLMContinueContinue reading “I Turned My Dissertation Into a Podcast Using NotebookLM”
Amplify Learning: A Global Collaborative – Amplifying Diverse Learning Needs Release
📬 Stay in the loop Join educators getting weekly insights on AI, co-teaching, and instructional leadership. Subscribe Welcome to the final book in our Amplify Learning: A Global Collaborative series – “Amplifying Diverse Learning Needs.” This fourth book of the series is designed as a comprehensive guide for educators striving to cater to the complexContinueContinue reading “Amplify Learning: A Global Collaborative – Amplifying Diverse Learning Needs Release”
New Book Release! Amplify Learning: A Global Collaborative – Amplifying Authentic Learning in Reading, Writing, and Mathematics
📬 Stay in the loop Join educators getting weekly insights on AI, co-teaching, and instructional leadership. Subscribe On January 4th, 2023, Amplify Learning: A Global Collaborative – Amplifying Learning in Authentic Reading, will be released with EduMatch Publishing! It is a book on research-based strategies integrated with EdTech tools crowdsourced by teachers across the world who areContinueContinue reading “New Book Release! Amplify Learning: A Global Collaborative – Amplifying Authentic Learning in Reading, Writing, and Mathematics”
Amplify Learning: A Global Collaborative – Amplifying Instructional Design
📬 Stay in the loop Join educators getting weekly insights on AI, co-teaching, and instructional leadership. Subscribe On June 13th, 2022, Amplify Learning: A Global Collaborative – Amplifying Instructional Design will be released with EduMatch Publishing! It is a book on research-based strategies integrated with EdTech tools from teachers across the world who are doingContinueContinue reading “Amplify Learning: A Global Collaborative – Amplifying Instructional Design”
Using QR Codes and Integrating them with Strategies to Amplify Learning
📬 Stay in the loop Join educators getting weekly insights on AI, co-teaching, and instructional leadership. Subscribe By: Matt Rhoads, Ed.D Dr. Matt Rhoads is a Tech and Instructional Leader and Innovator with hands in Adult Ed, K-12, and Higher Education. He is the author of several books and is the host of Navigating EducationContinueContinue reading “Using QR Codes and Integrating them with Strategies to Amplify Learning”
Instructional Strategies to Integrate with Google Jamboard to Amplify Learning
📬 Stay in the loop Join educators getting weekly insights on AI, co-teaching, and instructional leadership. Subscribe By: Matt Rhoads, Ed.D Dr. Matt Rhoads is a Tech and Instructional Leader and Innovator with hands in Adult Ed, K-12, and Higher Education. He is the author of several books and is the host of Navigating EducationContinueContinue reading “Instructional Strategies to Integrate with Google Jamboard to Amplify Learning”
One Month Anniversary of Navigating the Toggled Term: A Guide for K-12 Classroom and School Leaders
📬 Stay in the loop Join educators getting weekly insights on AI, co-teaching, and instructional leadership. Subscribe It’s been a month since the release of Navigating the Toggled Term: A Guide for K-12 Classroom and School Leaders. Readers from around the world have enjoyed this playbook and guide to help them prepare for the newContinueContinue reading “One Month Anniversary of Navigating the Toggled Term: A Guide for K-12 Classroom and School Leaders”
📖 Worldwide Release of Navigating the Toggled Term: A Guide for K-12 Classroom and School Leaders
📬 Stay in the loop Join educators getting weekly insights on AI, co-teaching, and instructional leadership. Subscribe Today is the day for the worldwide release of Navigating the Toggled Term: A Guide for K-12 Classroom and School Leaders. Writing this book was a labor of love with the goal of impacting teachers, school leaders, andContinueContinue reading “📖 Worldwide Release of Navigating the Toggled Term: A Guide for K-12 Classroom and School Leaders”