Aug 14, 2026
Jerry Kolber built Nat Geo's Brain Games and Netflix's Brainchild — then moved his team off screens entirely. In this episode he explains why, and what teachers are doing with kids' podcasts that he never planned for.
The practical piece: transition time. Coming back from lunch or recess, a short episode gets students...
Aug 13, 2026
For twenty-five years we sent the struggling kid to the back of the room with headphones on. Todd Brekhus of Renaissance explains why that model broke personalized learning, and how teacher-facing AI hands the room back to you.
Todd Brekhus is Chief Product Officer at Renaissance, General Manager of Nearpod, a former...
Aug 12, 2026
Quantum computing is roughly where AI was nine years ago. Dr. Nneka McGee has already taught it to five-year-olds — with a penny.
Nneka is the founder of Muon Global, project lead and principal co-author of the Stanford Accelerator for Learning white paper "AI + Learning Differences," and the author of an ISTE Jump...
Aug 11, 2026
Alice Keeler built the Educator AI Assistant — a Google Sheets add-on that collects no data — in two days. In this episode she talks about how she vibe codes with Gemini to create extensions and tools for teachers and the classroom.
Vibe coding is all the rage and everyone is talking about it. But how do you...
Aug 10, 2026
A struggling Title I school built its culture around the 7 Habits — and the academics followed. Principal Muriel Summers tells how.
In 1999, Muriel Summers became principal of A.B. Combs Elementary in Raleigh, North Carolina — the fifth person interviewed for a job four others had walked away from. She had just...