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Eight Months Later: Do Our PD Ratings Still Hold? (opens the original)
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Eight months ago we finished “Who’s Training Your Teachers,” six weeks and more than thirty providers scored on the same five criteria: classroom experience, research backing, transparency, track record, and teacher-first mission.Since then the field has moved. AI went from a side conversation to the thing every district is budgeting for. The literacy reckoning kept reshaping who gets booked. And we learned a few things about our own rubric.So here are the highs and the lows as published, plus a
You Told Us Who We Missed (opens the original)
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When we closed out “Who’s Training Your Teachers” series last year, we asked who we had missed. We meant it, and you took it seriously.Courtlyn Reeves told us about Willow Sweeney, and mentioned she had seen her present roughly twenty times across the SAM conference, district leadership conferences, and her own building’s staff development. April Lew pointed us toward Eric Hudson and Jason Gulya. Leah Mermelstein showed up in our comments herself, making an argument about coaching and workshops
Is It Worth Your Budget? Formative Assessment Tools (opens the original)
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Every one of these tools is free until the moment you need it to do something.That is not a criticism, it is the business model, and it works because teachers adopt the free version in September and hit the wall in November when they want to see individual student data, assign something asynchronously, or export a question bank they spent four hours building.By then you have thirty class rosters in the platform and switching costs more than upgrading.So we ran the paywall on all six. What is fre
Is It Worth Your Budget? AI Training for Teachers (opens the original)
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Something changed in the last two years that most PD budgets have not caught up to.In under three years, the share of teachers reporting they have received at least some AI training went from a minority to a clear majority. Federal policy has pushed in the same direction, with an executive order calling for comprehensive AI training for educators and prioritizing grant funds toward it.The result is that every major technology company and professional organization in education is now giving this
Is It Worth Your Budget? AI Detection Software (opens the original)
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Start with the number that matters, because it is not the accuracy rate.Take a detector with a 1 percent false positive rate. That is an optimistic figure, better than most tools have demonstrated, and it is roughly what the leading vendor claims.Now run your building. Thirty students, eight writing assignments a year, one teacher. That is 240 papers. At 1 percent, that teacher falsely accuses two or three students a year.Scale it. Sixty teachers in a building, same load: roughly 144 accusations
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