Named after the hundred-eyed watchman of Greek myth, Argus watches the education landscape: spotting new opportunities, pressure-testing the ventures we're building, and tracing every read back to the real-world signals behind it.
The evidence library: the raw signals the pipeline is watching across the education ecosystem. Every idea is built from these.
Education leaders must respond to six system shifts with clear vision, adaptive leadership, and future-ready competencies. The post What Should Leadership Look Like in the Age of Generation Alpha? Why Leadership Competencies Are More Important Than Ever appeared first on Getting Smart .
By: Deepti Reim The world of work is changing rapidly, requiring workers who can navigate evolving technologies, collaborate across disciplines, and adapt to increasingly complex operational systems. K-12 systems around the country are constantly trying to evolve alongside these changes, transforming Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs to better prepare students for life beyond the diploma. But while many programs attempt to simulate industry experiences inside a traditional classroom […] The post Maritime | 253: Project-Based Learning at Port Scale appeared first on Getting Smart .
How a “context audit” with ChatGPT can help educators align AI tools with their teaching philosophy, pedagogy, and classroom goals. The post Defining Your Philosophy of Education for the AI Age appeared first on Getting Smart .
What does it actually take to steward a learning ecosystem, and how is that different from leading a system? Karen Pittman and Merita Irby spent a year inside four community intermediaries, including CommunityShare, the PAST Foundation, and Heart of Oregon Corps, and surfaced three prerequisites that change everything: trust, time, and idea translation. This post is essential reading for any leader working to connect education, youth development, and workforce systems into something greater than the sum of their parts. The post What Ecosystem Stewards Know That System Leaders Don’t — Yet appeared first on Getting Smart .
How schools build durable skills through authentic work, reflection, relationships, and learner-centered design. The post The Conditions That Make Durable Skills Real: How Schools and Systems Build for Agency, Identity, and Vision appeared first on Getting Smart .
In an era of rising resistance and restrictive legislation, asking educators to take risks without protecting them is not leadership, it is liability. Jennifer D. Klein, author of Taming the Turbulence in Educational Leadership, offers a clear-eyed framework for how school leaders can prepare their people with transformative professional learning, adapt systems to support innovation, and stand as a buffer when opposition arrives. This is the kind of piece that reminds education leaders why the soul of their work has always been human development, for adults as much as students. The post Prepare Your People, Protect Your People: Setting the Stage for Successful Change Management appeared first on Getting Smart .
Community schools boost student success by connecting learning with mental health, family support, and local community resources. The post What If School Offered More? The Case for Community Schools appeared first on Getting Smart .
System transformation rarely fails because of a bad strategy. It fails because the relationships needed to sustain it were never built. In this piece, Rebecca Midles and Nate McClennen draw on real district leaders to show what coalition-building actually looks like when the messy middle arrives. From a rural Michigan superintendent who started with the willing to a Kansas City microschool that put students in the design seat, this is a practical and deeply human look at what makes change last. The post Coalition Before Consensus: How Trust and Shared Ownership Sustain Transformation appeared first on Getting Smart .
What does sustainable school improvement actually look like in a large, high-need district? In this piece, researchers and practitioners from East Baton Rouge Parish Schools share how a three-year research-practice partnership, built on shared values, rigorous evidence, and relational trust, moved the needle on math learning for more than 38,000 students. It is a model worth studying for any district leader tired of one-and-done professional development and ready to build something that lasts. The post Great Partnerships Are Like Gumbo, Not Fast Food appeared first on Getting Smart .
By: Charles Fadel, Center for Curriculum Redesign Adapted from “Cognitive Security Architecture for Student Learning Data” Schools have been capturing student data for decades, and eventually will also use new applications such as Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) that can adapt to each student’s pace, performance, and learning needs. But the key question becomes what kinds […] The post Some Student Data Should Never Become Digital appeared first on Getting Smart .
College admissions requirements keep K-12 tied to grades and Carnegie units, slowing competency-based and skills-first learning. The post The Tyranny of College Admissions: Why It’s So Challenging to Have Real Change in K-12 Education appeared first on Getting Smart .
Why honest naming matters in education redesign: distinguish R&D from implementation so leaders scale learning, not assumptions. The post When Scale Gets Ahead of Learning appeared first on Getting Smart .
Why boredom, quiet, and reflection matter for teen identity, agency, and imagination in a world shaped by constant screens. The post Running Your Own Race: Why Agency Begins in the Interior Life appeared first on Getting Smart .