Joshua Hook

@RewiringK12 @MatthewAKraft Good insights... I agree. We know the history of education thus far (video, classroom desktops, internet, 1-to-1 devices, etc.) and the behavior of humans. This doesn't end well.

AI, specifically 1:1 personalized tutoring with a human still in the loop, has great potential to change education. However, I’m gravely concerned about the machine that is public education being able to navigate the many serious pitfalls of this technology and avoid the irresponsible tendencies that have been shown towards edtech over the last 25 years. It’s going to take real, deep, thoughtful work on a vast scale I’m not sure our public education system is capable of.

When asked about AI and the future of K-12 teaching during a panel at #AEFP2026, I responded that I thought very little of what teachers do on a day-to-day basis *in classrooms* would change in the next 10 years. The reaction I got suggested this is a heterodox view. Am I wrong?

@dylanwiliam @MatthewAKraft I've looked into NotebookLM, and I struggle to see it as a powerful tool for educators at the elementary level. Especially a school that has already done a lot of curriculum, instruction, and assessment planning. Can anyone speak to this?

@MatthewAKraft I would have agreed with you a few months ago, but as I work with Google's Notebook LM, I am now much less certain than I was. One important difference is that Notebook LM is more extractive rather than generative AI...

Absolutely every strategy we launch in a school should be able to point to the evidence bases that inform it, especially when it lands heavily on the public purse. 'What's the evidence for this?' should be the first question from our lips. The best thing about this is that anyone can ask it, whatever rank you are. The onus is on the strategy's enthusiasts to justify themselves.

@PapaBearMyers Would it be possible to add the percent change in student achievement (i.e., across grades & content areas), based on state (i.e., M-STEP) assessment data?

School districts across the country are claiming budget crises. But what if the data tells a different story? I built an interactive dashboard that shows how staffing and student enrollment have changed over 30+ years for any U.S. district. What's your district's story?

Does @1000HoursOutsid App allow individual users to link to a group inside the app? For instance, students within an elementary school link to their school, and can share their logged hours outdoors and badges they've accrued with schoolmates for friendly schoolwide competition

@Beanie0597 @rpondiscio That was the perfect response!

Know how some people start their talks with “stolen land” declarations? A lot of edu-pundits should make stolen ideas declarations.

@MEMSPA Please join Meridian Public Schools in celebrating Stacey Douglas, Meridian Elementary School Assistant Principal, as Michigan’s Outstanding Assistant Principal of the Year, 2025!

@mikesully97 @S_Oberle Seriously brilliant insight!

@S_Oberle As I’ve said before, if the folks promoting inquiry based approaches truly believed is was as good as they claim, they wouldn’t be constantly lecturing us about it. They’d let us “discover” its superiority on our own.

…or how many years it takes us to trial-and-error our way through before we put the pieces together. Novice teaching is perhaps the most expensive form of inquiry-based learning.

At the heart of the Direct Instruction model is checking for understanding which is what makes it a highly interactive way of teaching. It will surprise many to read that DI is the “opposite of the lecture format.”

@CoachBehnfeldt @SteeleThoughts @lutecroy You just expressed that perfectly! Would your principal be happy to listen if you said that?

Principals don’t always know what they’re doing. Sometimes, we’re just fumbling our way through… trying to support the teachers and love the kids.

@tenaciousKat @dizdarm @PamelaSnow2 @tserry2504 Right on! You named it all! Keep up the great work!

@dizdarm @PamelaSnow2 @tserry2504 teaching at my current school has shown me how stark the differences are, with real kids. So next time we hear something challenging, particularly as the wind is blowing in the direction of explicit instruction, let’s remember it’s about our kids. They need this. 10/10.

I am teaching at a school which has implemented high quality explicit instruction K-6. My Year 2 class is on average higher than previous 3-6 classes. This is not ‘because of SES’. This is not ‘because kids are just different’. It is because they have been carefully, 1/

@MegVertebrae @C_Hendrick @P_A_Kirschner Loving my Saturday mornings 👍🏻

It’s here!! 2nd edition of this awesome book arrived! Congrats, ⁦@P_A_Kirschner⁩ and ⁦@C_Hendrick⁩!

@NathanBreitling @MrZachG All credit to Anita Archer!

@PamelaSnow2 Perhaps the most important research study ever conducted in the field of education, and schools of education seem to fall silent on it.

This is quite a good practice guide: Teaching Explicitly from Australian Education Research Organisation edresearch.edu.au/sites/default/…

Educators in K-12 would be wise to subscribe to @HKorbey regular publications. There are a lot of loud voices out there in education, with the majority chasing fads and shiny things. Hers is not one of them… hollykorbey.substack.com/p/putting-the-…

@staceysdouglas @MeridianElem I’m glad I have the daily privilege of working with the best people!

I love my job! Thankful that I get to make people smile…and think I’m a little crazy…on the daily! Happy Leap Year 🐸 @MeridianElem

@PrincipalProj @RANESIAEDWARDS Build trust, competence, & credibility; encourage others daily; and focus on instruction (your learning and teachers’) and let all the calls and emails and ‘stuff’ occupy the small spaces in between…or else they’ll consume all your time. Oops, that’s 5 😬

What's ONE piece of advice you'd give a new school leader on managing their to-do list? Inspiration via AP @RANESIAEDWARDS 👇

@HKorbey …something like Ben Franklin’s Junto Club…but all about the science of learning 👍🏻

@HKorbey I wish there was! I haven’t stumbled upon it though. I’d join in a heartbeat.

Help a reporter: I'm familiar with the grassroots teacher movement that gathers here on X to discuss the science of learning. Is there a similar thing happening with principals? Why or why not? Thanks!