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Cultures of innovation begin with a culture of empathy. As you navigate today’s changing world the question remains how do you create these cultures? How do you scale them?
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Future Focus | AI Detection Misses the Point: What Schools Should Protect Instead (opens the original)
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AI detection may tell educators that a model was involved, but it cannot answer the question that actually matters: Did the student think, learn, and grow? This episode explores why schools should stop auditing productive struggle and start designing for it protecting the friction that builds learner agency while using AI to remove the institutional friction that keeps educators disconnected. Timestamps 00:00 — When “augment” changes the AI conversation: Debbie Millman’s graduate students reveal
Future Focus | Before Your District Buys Another AI Tool, Ask These Questions (opens the original)
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AI tools can look transformative in a demo and fall apart when they encounter the messy data, workflows, and institutional knowledge of a real organization. Drawing lessons from former Lululemon CIO Julie Averill’s warnings about “AI wishing” and “AI washing,” this episode challenges school leaders to stop chasing tools and instead identify where valuable expertise is trapped and build systems that scale it. Timestamps [00:02:00] The AI Buying Trap — Why impressive AI promises often collide with
Future Focus | Will Teachers Still Have Jobs? What New AI Research Says About the Future of Teaching (opens the original)
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New research from OpenAI, Google, PwC, LinkedIn, and Coursera offers a clearer picture of how AI may reshape work and why teaching’s most human qualities may become its greatest protection. This episode explores why trust, judgment, coaching, and connection matter more than ever, while challenging school leaders to decide deliberately what AI should automate and what must remain fundamentally human. Timestamps 00:00 — “Do you think I’m going to have a job?” The question educators are quietly ask
Future Focus | 98 Students Wrote an AI Policy. What They Protected Says Everything About School | Week of August 10, 2026 (opens the original)
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When 98 high school students from all 50 states gathered in a replica of the U.S. Senate, they did what many adults have struggled to do: debate and pass a detailed policy for AI in schools. But their Students First Act reveals something deeper—not just what young people want from AI policy, but how deeply traditional ideas about assessment, fairness, and learning shape what students believe school should be. Timestamps [00:03:00] AI Misuse or Fear Management? — Why students reaching for AI may
Future Focus | Stop Chasing the Best AI Model: Build a Strategy That Survives the Next Release | Week of July 17, 2026 (Companion Episode) (opens the original)
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With Claude for Teachers, ChatGPT, and Gemini all competing for classrooms, school leaders may feel pressure to pick the “right” AI platform, but that’s the wrong place to start. This episode explains why sustainable AI strategy begins with identifying broken workflows, capturing your organization’s proprietary knowledge, and building systems that can work across whatever AI model comes next. Explore More from Designing Schools 🤝 Partner with Us : Join the AI Power Circle and collaborate with fo
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