A reflection on lessons learned building at the intersection of AI and education When I started building Bitta.ai, I thought I was solving a technology problem. A few months in, I realized I was solving a trust problem. Here is what I kept seeing: students were dragging and dropping their educators’ lecture slides into ChatGPT and Claude, getting summaries, and moving on. On the surface, that looks like efficiency. But something important was getting lost in the middle — the educator’s...

Most people think leadership happens when the meeting begins: leaders exchange ideas, debate decisions, and determine the path forward. From the outside, leadership appears to happen in the room. But experienced leaders know something different: the most important meeting often happens before anyone arrives. Years ago, I believed that successful meetings depended primarily on what occurred during the meeting itself. Over time, I learned that the quality of a meeting is often determined long...

This piece is from the xSELeratED SEL initiative on The Worthy Educator, led by Leigh Reagan Alley, Heather Lageman and Walter McKenzie. View the fully formatted version here. Heather Lageman and guest xSELerater, Tasha Manigo-Bizzell As June arrives, we invite you to take a literary approach to the end of the school year, finally getting to the final chapter of a book you've been writing all year. The pages are filling up fast, the energy is intense, and everyone is racing to bring the story...