This year’s ISTE+ASCD conference was a busy one for me. I had five sessions, which was a little much. I need to be less busy next year… Transforming Learning Environments: Implementing ...

As we head out of the All-Star Game break, here is a look at the standings in my two fantasy baseball leagues. As you can see, my Twinkies are struggling… in both leagues. I am an eternal optimist ...

The courage to innovate by Scott McLeod | Jun 21, 2025 | Equity, Leadership and Vision, Learning and Teaching, News and Events, Podcasts | 0 comments ...

The courage to innovate Notes from the 2015 Iowa STEM Summit Social-emotional learning in middle school [NAESP] Project-based learning in early childhood [NAESP] Thinking about NAEP in Colorado and ...

Spring 2025 Commencement was a good one. I was selected to be a Faculty Marshal again, which was super fun. And I got to say a final farewell to three amazing doctoral students and an awesome ...

Great or gimmick? AI chatbots that mimic historical figures by Scott McLeod | May 19, 2025 | Learning and Teaching, Tech Integration | 2 comments ...

Yesterday James Bedford reached out to me, noting that my AI vicious cycle was very similar to his AI Wheel of Death and asking me to give him proper attribution. Of course I was immediately horrif… ...

On March 28 there is going to be an awesome participant-led discussion in Denver that I hope some of you can attend. The all-day event is titled Reimagining AI in Education: Asking the Right Questions ...

[I am reviving the Deserves a Bigger Audience (DABA) feature of this blog and the red megaphone!] I had the chance a couple of weeks ago to finally meet Sara Lev. If you don’t know Sara, she is ...

Liz Garden, my co-Fellow for the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) Center for Innovative Learning (CIL), and I had a chance to talk with Holly Clark about the use of ...

Redesigning for Deeper Learning is a podcast in which we redesign lessons and units for deeper learning LIVE. Our goal is to model how we can start shifting our day-to-day instruction toward student ...

One of the schools that I visited for my Deeper Learning in Elementary and Middle Schools (DLEMS) book project was Down to Earth Forest School in West Linn, Oregon. Down to Earth Forest School is a ...