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Indianapolis Catholic school principal Ronda Swartz on returning time to teachers, building student AI judgment, setting practical guardrails, and protecting student data across school-managed and personal accounts.
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Mike Jones on moving assessment beyond the finished artifact, using HUMAN and HEART to label AI use and grade the process, and the equity risks of both bans and unstructured access.
Rensselaer Central teacher and district AI lead Hunter Hickman on action research in student writing, AI policy and data discipline, and where he and Jason disagree about expertise before AI use.
Lewis Poché of Notre Dame's Alliance for Catholic Education on AI literacy, student guardrails, protecting the learning process, and what schools can offer that the digital world cannot.
Former federal prosecutor Tiffany Preston on AI-enabled sextortion, deepfakes, family safe words, and the specific steps parents and children should take when targeted.
Keep Indiana Learning's Morgan Mason on AI around young children, the risks of anthropomorphism and sycophancy, and ways educators can use AI for family communication, early literacy, lesson planning, and time back.
CIESC's Lena Darnay on early AI exposure, workforce readiness, SAIL leadership, Indiana diploma seals, and why K-12, higher ed, and employers need a shared response.
Sagamore Council's Bryon Haverstick on Scouting America's new AI merit badge, deepfakes, ethics, and teaching scouts to design and explain an AI lesson.
IU's Anne Leftwich on why AI holdouts forfeit their seat at the table, GenAI 101 for everyone, and why K-12 bans fail like abstinence-only everything.
Jeremy Hill's Richmond HS tech team red-teamed MagicSchool for two weeks, and now students run the district's AI rollout.
Purdue CS junior Bohyeon Jang on the frozen Big Tech entry-level market and why AI-fluent grads should target startups and SMBs instead.
Zionsville digital learning coach Stevie Frank on age-appropriate AI conversations from kindergarten up, in a district that never blocked ChatGPT.
Purdue's Ethan Dawes, the "Can AI do this?" sign guy, on why mass-applying is broken and what portfolios, oral exams, and AI scaffolding fix.
CIESC's Tanika Kinartail on how vertical AI handles students differently than ChatGPT and train-the-trainer PD for districts with no budget.
Alpha School's Sofia Swanson walks through the 2 Hour Learning model, top-1% MAP claims, and the selection-bias question, with co-host Ronda Swartz.
Ivy Tech's Mark Lowe is piloting grading the AI prompt alongside the paper, treating AI as tutor and debate partner instead of policing it.
Hunter Hickman returns: AI makes students faster, but is it making them better thinkers, and how a rural district trains teachers either way.
Ryan Murray on building Indiana's AI teacher certification from scratch and what readiness actually looks like.
Kristen Kayser on what AI literacy actually means for K-12 students and why most districts are getting it wrong.
Ivy Tech's Amanda Wilkerson on how community colleges are building AI workforce pathways ahead of the four-years.
How college students should actually use AI in the job hunt without outsourcing the thinking that gets them hired.
Nick Bonora on why AI rollouts stall for the same reason most conferences are forgettable: nobody designed for behavior change.
Language arts teacher Patty Oshier on using AI to build better lessons, claw back time, and actually know her students better.
Jordan Meyers on trading the textbook grind for ChatGPT study workflows in paramedic school.
Future Proof Music School founder John von Seggern on where AI belongs in music education and where the human teacher stays.
Transformation coach Lena Morris on pairing AI fluency with the people skills employers keep saying they can't find.
A Columbia grad turned Wall Street quant turned AI entrepreneur on why students are living the 1980s garage moment and need digital literacy first.
Patty McGee brings 31 years of classroom experience to AI and writing instruction, testing tools with students and pushing back on detection.
Teaching Tulsa high schoolers to run real healthcare scenarios through ChatGPT, with paramedic instructor Rebekah Dearing.
MIT PhD candidate BreAnne Fleer on curious skepticism over blind adoption, what the Luddites actually opposed, and why coding literacy still matters.
Courtney Bock trained AI chatbots in 2010, became a K-5 educator, and now leads district-wide AI implementation with no illusions.
Carmel Mayor Sue Finkam and Invest Hamilton County's Mike Thibideau get pressed on whether schools are keeping pace with AI's job shifts.
Julian Yoon explains data lakes with laundry baskets and why healthcare and education need data science grads now.
Dr. KaT Zarychta on the global student mental-health crisis, 1 in 3 young adults feeling isolated, and AI as ally rather than threat.
Eduaide.ai founder Thomas Hummel on building a teacher AI tool from a Title I classroom to a million educators in 130+ countries.
"Dr. Bubbles" Ronda Swartz on rolling out School AI to hesitant teachers and why Catholic schools may be positioned for the AI era.
Hunter Hickman on how Rensselaer Central hit 92% student activation with Khanmigo while big districts were still debating policy.
A Purdue industrial engineering senior on landing offers through networking and why complacency, not automation, is the real career threat.
Former elementary and special-ed teacher Mary Dougherty on AI turning teachers into facilitators and opening doors for special-needs students.
Kimba Rund returns to debunk the viral AI water-bottle myth and explain what her generation actually thinks about AI careers.
Solutions architect Karisa Schwanekamp on the pandemic moment that changed her teaching and learning alongside students with AI.
Purdue's Kathryn Dilworth on her QUIZ methodology for teaching students to control AI instead of being controlled by it.
AI pioneer De Kai argues we should stop treating AI as machines and start parenting them as artificial children.
Susan Woods on AI adoption across generations and why human oversight and critical thinking stay non-negotiable.
Launch episode: Ivy Tech Lafayette Vice Chancellor Brooklyn Burton on AI-driven workforce and economic development.
Pre-launch special with transformation coach Lena Morris on AI adoption and human behavioral change in education.