Howard Dvorsky

Krystalyn Musselman holds a worn cardboard box up to the screen on our Zoom call. It’s the anonymous question box she relies on to field queries from high schoolers at Tecumseh Public Schools in southeast Michigan, where she teaches sex ed. The box, covered in pink and black patterned craft tape, is topped with a pink handlebar mustache, serving as a key visual set up for the “I mustache you a que...[Read More]

The new law will take effect next year.

When I was a teenager, the idea of revealing my innermost thoughts and feelings to another human being was beyond comprehension. Now that I’m an adult, the idea of revealing those same secrets to an artificial being is almost inconceivably strange. Back then, and still today, I’m an outlier, a fact underscored by the 28% of American adults and 72% of teens who seek emotional solace and advice from...[Read More]

Education is at an inflection point. For decades, we have structured learning around content delivery—standardized, decontextualized, and increasingly disconnected from the real world. But a rapidly changing global landscape demands something different: an approach to learning that is immersive, relational, and participatory. It requires a shift from passive knowledge absorption to active engageme...[Read More]

How can schools make STEM exciting and relevant in preK-12 classrooms, without overwhelming teachers? Here are a few suggestions.

Imagine spending thousands of dollars on an edtech product for your school or district that promises to transform student learning, only to watch students struggle to engage with it. It’s a scenario we’ve heard about repeatedly from educators. While teachers and education leaders are the ones making the procurement decisions, the end users — students themselves — are often left out of the conversa...[Read More]

States and school systems considering the future of assessment find themselves in a position somewhat analogous to Netflix circa 2007. Netflix had a thriving DVD-by-mail service. It kept that approach while simultaneously embracing the future by introducing streaming—adding personalization, usefulness, and usability without abandoning its core business. For Pre-K12 education systems, the path forw...[Read More]

From content to thought, linear learning to spiral learning, and grading to micrograding, here are possible characteristics of an innovative classroom.

Over the past two years, I have noticed that when I teach students about any issue in the U.S. or around the world, they express noticeable apathy and disinterest. When our current president was elected, I asked a Latina student how she felt, and she said she likes him because he will “teach her how to make money.” When I pushed back on this and brought up undocumented immigrants, she responded by...[Read More]

Emotional safety in EdTech is the missing ingredient neurodivergent kids need—tools must feel supportive, respectful, and safe before real learning can happen. The post The Missing Ingredient in EdTech for Neurodivergent Kids: Emotional Safety first appeared on EdTechReview.

Strategic planning and execution tools for K-12 school districts are software programs that help solve problems.

Ed tech provider McGraw Hill has launched Teacher Assistant, a new generative AI-powered tool for lesson planning support, and announced the wider availability of Writing Assistant, a gen AI tool for strengthening students’ writing skills.