Change Management as a Learning Problem (with Jennifer Husbands)

About this episode

Jennifer Husbands discusses the challenges of AI adoption in schools and the importance of investing in teacher learning time.

Two decades of working on school improvement — at High Tech High, at Chicago Public Schools, at the Gates Foundation, and now through her own consulting practice — have left Jennifer Husbands with a fairly direct view of why AI adoption in schools is going the way it's going. The technology isn't the problem. The problem is that the US invests less in teacher learning time than almost any peer system, and you cannot ask people to change their behavior in a setting that gives them no room to l...

People in this episode

Host: aiEDU: The AI Education Project

Guest: Jennifer Husbands

Topics covered

• AI adoption
• teacher learning
• school improvement
• education technology
• change management

Keywords

• AI adoption
• teacher learning
• school improvement
• education technology
• change management

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: High Tech High, Chicago Public Schools, Gates Foundation, aiEDU

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