As someone who works with Jewish day schools and educational organizations to help them design intentional, human-centered systems for teaching and learning, I spend a lot of time thinking about how innovation meets reality. So when I attended the DenAI Summit -- a gathering largely focused on how governments and the social sector can use artificial intelligence to improve lives -- I went with one question in mind: What can schools learn from the way other sectors are approa

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My professional life is filled with conversations about AI in education. I keynote conferences. I help craft policy. I design and execute...

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You did it. You created an AI task force. You ran a professional learning session. You set up ChatGPT accounts and maybe even shared a...

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In Jewish day schools and organizations, we are accustomed to thinking in terms of the whole: whole organization improvement, whole-child...

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