⛾ Turning Schools Into Incubators of Deep Thinking

Musings on increasing focus and transforming culture beyond cell phone bans.

Apr 20 • Clark Mayer

⛾ Teachers are the Ultimate Creators & Apple Wants a Bite of that Market

Diving into Apple's Canva competitor, “Apple Creator Studio”

Apr 1 • Clark Mayer

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March 2026

⛾ Seizing the means of EdTech

The creation of bespoke software has never been easier and has the ability to individualize our tools to best befit our systems, rather than our tools…

Mar 22 • Clark Mayer

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January 2026

What in the world is Sal Khan up to?

Sal Khan, founder and CEO of Khan Academy in his Opinion piece for the NYT on AI and the workforce (gift link):

Jan 11 • Clark Mayer

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September 2025

⛾ The Cool Professor - A response to Freddie deBoer

A provocative post from Tom Pepinsky on Bluesky:

Sep 14, 2025 • Clark Mayer

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February 2025

⛾ When writing is right

Earlier this week, one of our multilingual student used AI to write their ESL class to compose their personal narrative essay.

Feb 23, 2025 • Clark Mayer

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The Schoolhouse Firewall

Tara García Mathewson from The Markup discussing online censorship on school networks, mentions Aleeza, a high school student in California:

Feb 7, 2025 • Clark Mayer

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Putting the 'AI' in PLC

Meghan Hargrave, Douglas Fisher, and Nancy Frey writing for ASCD, "Bringing Artificial Intelligence to the PLC Table":

Feb 5, 2025 • Clark Mayer

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⛾ Sound it out

I was a horrible reader as a child, and am a notoriously slow reader to this day.

Feb 3, 2025 • Clark Mayer

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January 2025

Libraries being bled dry

Andrew Limbong of NPR's Book of the Day Podcast on YouTube Shorts talking about digital library services like Libby:

Jan 29, 2025 • Clark Mayer

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Should we make reading ugly?

In my last piece looking into accessibility of fonts in class, I ran into this study from 2013 by M.

Jan 27, 2025 • Clark Mayer

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ICE Encounters and Failures in Ed Leadership

Michael Elsen-Rooney, Gwynne Hogan, and Alex Zimmerman for Chalkbeat New York on Eric Adams and Immigration, "'Everyone is scared’: Deportation fears…

Jan 25, 2025 • Clark Mayer

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