As an educational leadership professor, I hear inspiring messages from colleagues all the time, and I understand the impulse to lead with the highlight reel. Wins matter, from measurable improvement and real growth to culture building, trust restored, and students graduating. Aspiring leaders need those stories because this work is hard, and hope is fuel. […] The post The Syllabus and the Scar Tissue: What Leadership Preparation Programs Leave Out and Why It Matters appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning.
Field trips have always been more than a day away from desks. They are the moments students remember, the experiences that build empathy and ignite curiosity. A new Getting Smart post examines what the research says about virtual field trips and offers a classroom-ready framework that helps educators design experiences worthy of that same legacy. For leaders looking to expand access and deepen engagement without waiting for a bus, this is a practical and visionary read. The post Beyond the Classroom Walls: What Research Says About Virtual Field Trips appeared first on Getting Smart.
What happens when you build EdTech features by actually listening to students? Kyron Learning partnered with the AIMS Collaboratory and the Gates Foundation to study motivation and engagement among English language learners in middle school math, and the findings drove real product changes. This piece traces how closed captioning, highlighted transcripts, and clickable definitions emerged from classroom observation rather than assumption, offering a model for what participant-driven, learner-centered product development can look like at its best. The post How Student Feedback Shaped New Features for English Language Learners in Math appeared first on Getting Smart.
True Confessions from the Grading Trenches It happened on a Wednesday—the kind of Wednesday that arrives in the middle of a grading cycle and quietly steals your personality. I had been working through a stack of papers that all needed thoughtful, individualized feedback, yet somehow required me to repeat the same five clarifications about APA formatting, […] The post The Pedagogy of Trading Places: Lessons from an Unexpected Role Reversal with AI appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning.
True Confessions from the Grading Trenches It happened on a Wednesday—the kind of Wednesday that arrives in the middle of a grading cycle and quietly steals your personality. I had been working through a stack of papers that all needed thoughtful, individualized feedback, yet somehow required me to repeat the same five clarifications about APA formatting, […] The post The Pedagogy of Trading Places: Lessons from an Unexpected Role Reversal with AI appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning.
When a student completes a writing test in a locked browser, we learn what they can do alone. But the world asks something harder: can they use AI without being used by it? In this sharp and timely essay, Eric Tucker argues that assessment for writing, speaking, and listening has not kept pace with how communication actually works, and maps a practical path forward. Education leaders navigating AI policy, curriculum design, and high-stakes testing will find both a diagnostic and a blueprint here. The post Schools Are Testing the Past: How Assessment Must Evolve for Writing, Speaking, and Listening in the AI Age appeared first on Getting Smart.
After attending a summer workshop on learning strategies led by Professor Andrew Cohen, I returned to my Spanish classrooms at Northwestern University with a simple question: What would happen if my students became aware of how they learned? To explore this, I introduced an anonymous learning strategies survey that I had adapted from one I had […] The post Each Student Has a Different Door: What I Learned About Learning Styles from Andrew Cohen — and from My Own Students appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning.
After attending a summer workshop on learning strategies led by Professor Andrew Cohen, I returned to my Spanish classrooms at Northwestern University with a simple question: What would happen if my students became aware of how they learned? To explore this, I introduced an anonymous learning strategies survey that I had adapted from one I had […] The post Each Student Has a Different Door: What I Learned About Learning Styles from Andrew Cohen — and from My Own Students appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning.
In the late 1970s, America had a collective awakening. For decades, the food industry had flourished, offering convenience and endless variety, largely in the absence of robust public health oversight. It took the official declaration of the 1977 McGovern Report to crystallize and politically amplify the long-term cost of a diet built on processed foods. The food industry’s response […] The post The Cognitive Concern: Why AI Needs a Nutrition Label appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning.
In the late 1970s, America had a collective awakening. For decades, the food industry had flourished, offering convenience and endless variety, largely in the absence of robust public health oversight. It took the official declaration of the 1977 McGovern Report to crystallize and politically amplify the long-term cost of a diet built on processed foods. The food industry’s response […] The post The Cognitive Concern: Why AI Needs a Nutrition Label appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning.
What does it look like when a city becomes a learning campus? The Providence After School Alliance spent two decades answering that question, aligning schools, city agencies, and community organizations so young people could access high-quality learning far beyond the school day. This Steward Story traces PASA’s evolution from a bold response to a local crisis into a nationally recognized model for ecosystem building, credit-bearing out-of-school learning, and the kind of coordination that outlasts leadership transitions. For education leaders navigating fragmented systems, PASA’s journey is both a blueprint and a call to action. The post Steward Stories: Spotlight on Providence After School Alliance appeared first on Getting Smart.
What happens when a school system delegates student achievement to an AI system with a single directive: raise test scores? In this provocative new piece, David Ross draws on AI alignment theory, Goodhart’s Law, and a decade of stagnant NAEP data to map the subordinate goals an optimization engine might quietly pursue, from narrowing the curriculum to managing teachers as variables. It is essential reading for any leader navigating the intersection of political pressure and emerging technology. The post When AI Chases Test Scores, What Gets Left Behind? appeared first on Getting Smart.
My first semester as a faculty member taught me something I wish I had understood on day one: most of the stress did not come from teaching itself. It came from the absence of systems. I was making constant small decisions—how to answer student emails, when to grant an extension, what to do when a […] The post Five Things I Wish I Knew My First Semester appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning.
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