Episode 349-Why Human Skills Matter More Than Content In An AI Age with Lisa Reigel

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The episode discusses the importance of human skills in education amidst the challenges posed by AI and high-stakes testing.

Send us Fan Mail If school still looks like memorizing, pacing, and compliance, we’re preparing kids for a world that no longer exists. Today we sit down with educator, leadership researcher, and neuroscience-informed consultant Lisa Reigel to talk about what’s really driving student behavior, teacher burnout, and the rising feeling that the system can’t hold the humans inside it. We get specific about how high-stakes testing changed the mission from “teach kids” to “teach content,” and why ...

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Host: Sara Gullihur-Bradford

Guest: Lisa Reigel

Topics covered

• education
• human skills
• AI impact
• student behavior
• teacher burnout

Keywords

• human skills
• education
• AI
• teacher burnout
• student behavior
• high-stakes testing

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