Blog posts by: Lennon Audrain
The future isn’t smarter tools, it’s powerful systems
From filmstrips to flipped classrooms, the arc of educational technology often tends to reinforce the usual ways of doing school. While tools like AI hold great promise, their effectiveness depends on both the structures of schooling — how we organize time, roles and relationships — and the systems that undergird those structures: the policies, assumptions and routines that determine what school looks like.
Beyond the roster: Rethinking how we dynamically group students and assign educators
What might seem like a scheduling tweak is actually a structural foundation for transformation. When the same educators share the same students during the same blocks of time, they can move beyond coverage to connection, beyond sorting to support. Dynamic student grouping is an instructional move grounded in the belief that students deserve not just one educator, but a team of educators who know them, coordinate around them and respond to their needs.