Blog posts by: Lennon Audrain

Dating back to the early 20th century, the Dutch have approached schooling not as a fixed structure, but as something that can — and should — be shaped by purpose. Saxion University of Applied Sciences’ partnership with ASU and the Next Education Workforce™ marks a new chapter: one where Dutch and American educators learn from each other.

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.

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.