Real-time dashboards should change this week’s decisions, not next semester’s. I share the pattern I use with charter networks: extract only what matters from PowerSchool, land it in BigQuery, and surface clean, fast visuals in Looker Studio/Tableau—with alerts that drive action.
Microsoft’s August EDU update brings Microsoft 365 LTI (public preview) into Canvas, Schoology, Blackboard, Brightspace, and Moodle—plus Learning Zone and Copilot features that reduce tool-flipping. This is less about shiny AI and more about cleaner workflows: create, assign, and respond in one place. If you’re prepping for fall, this is worth a tight pilot.
Looking for a practical roadmap to bring AI into classrooms without the hype (or the headaches)? This post translates a new framework into a four-step playbook for responsible AI implementation in education—center people and ethics, plan cross-functionally, guarantee equitable access, and build continuous evaluation and PD. Use it to align procurement, governance, and training with instructional goals.
A solid knowledge management framework ensures that critical policies, processes, and insights are captured, refined, stored, and surfaced when—and where—they’re needed. In this white paper–rooted guide, I share a four-phase lifecycle—acquisition, refinement, storage & retrieval, and curation & distribution—designed to turn institutional memory into a strategic asset. You’ll get practical tips on metadata tagging, feedback loops, and embedding knowledge directly into daily workflows, so your district avoids reinventing the wheel and accelerates problem-solving.
