July 02, 2025 Hi Reader, I'm excited to announce we have two new podcasts on the BE Podcast Network. Improving Education Today: The Deep Dive You've probably heard of AI tools to create content. The eternal problem will always be, garbage in-garbage out, which means if you start with something low quality, you'll get low quality out the other side. Dr. Howie Knoff has been doing just the opposite, creating high quality articles and turning those into meaningful podcasts with AI Educators...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
July 02, 2025 Hi Reader, We know you've been eagerly awaiting information on the next awards program from the American Consortium for Excellence in Equity. Over the past three years, the Excellence in Equity Awards have recognized over 100 education and edtech companies, products, leaders, and educators. Today, we're excited to share some big news. The awards will return soon and the BE Podcast Network is the new home of the awards program!What this means for you: the same great awards...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
July 02, 2025 I'm doing two live events this month, and I invite you to join one or both of them. AI Leader Office Hours Come join us for special office hours with Lisa Parry from South Dakota. She's got some great stuff to share, and of course, we will take your questions and comments. Plus, I've got a cool tool to share with you that just blew my mind when I discovered it the other day. So many AI tools are either basic chat interfaces or highly complex developer environments. I don't like...
3 months ago • 2 min read
Hi Reader, It’s that time again! Time for AILeader Office Hours. This session is designed for you to come get the help you need to figure out whatever problem is vexing you! And then we will work together to figure out how to solve it using AI. In the past, we used Webinar Ninja for this, but my account got closed down and I’ve been working to find a new way to make it so we can do this is a way that makes sense, and the a couple weeks ago, Apple released iCloud Invites. So, we are going to...
4 months ago • 1 min read
Hi Reader, Last night we had our first session of the SchoolX Book Study. Wow. It was great. In fact, it was so good, many people had great things to share from it. The big takeaway? Practical, applicable, we can do stuff right now. I make a lot of mistakes, but I promise you, you’re going to have time, space, and opportunity to APPLY what you learn, right away. I’m pretty sure this is my superpower when it comes to presenting: practical application of the content. Not only does “sit and get”...
6 months ago • 1 min read
Hi Reader, I’m hosting October’s AILeader office hours on Tuesday at 1 pm pacific. I’m looking forward to having you join me. For those who aren’t aware, AILeader office hours are where you can bring any AI problem you have to get support and ideas around solving it. This week, for the teaching part, I’m planning to talk about a new tool I’m using called Atlasti to figure out how to find connections between different topics. I’m going to be using the transcripts from Transformative Principal...
9 months ago • 1 min read
Hi Reader,I’m thrilled to share some amazing news with you! The Be Podcast Network has teamed up with Reading Is Fundamental (RIF), the leading children’s literacy nonprofit in the U.S., for a truly impactful campaign this September in honor of National Literacy Month. Our mission? To spark high-impact conversations about the importance of children’s literacy, reading engagement, and best practices for teaching and encouraging reading both in schools and at home. During this campaign, more...
10 months ago • 2 min read
Hi Reader, Tomorrow for our office hours, we’ll be continuing to talk about RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) with AI. This last month, I’ve been working with a tool called whyhow.ai to visualize different relationships between documents. The specific purpose I’m using this for is relating to finding relationships among research studies about a specific topic. Here’s an example looking at destructive leadership and the relationship between gaslighting and other forms of destructive...
10 months ago • 1 min read
Hi Reader, This is my daughter Katya. She turns 18 in one week, and she has had to learn to walk 5 times already. Here are five things I learned from watching her push through her challenges from each time she learned to walk. Let others push you! Katya's younger sister is just 19 months younger than she is. Having Down syndrome, Katya takes a while to learn things. Once she saw her sister start walking, she followed quickly! She thought, if she can do that, so can I. If you did it once, you...
about 1 year ago • 2 min read