AI and our sustained curiosity about the bright future of education with Priten Shah and Aatash Parikh

06/05/24 • 38 min

In this exciting and idea-packed episode, we catch up with Priten Shah and Aatash Parikh, two of our edtech founders who are also innovative thinkers on artificial intelligence and its potential for schools.

Hear about:

How do we understand what technologies are truly “AI?”
What we’re still waiting to learn about what AI technologies can and will become
What it means to become “AI literate”
Helping to solve persistent problems in education
Appropriately embracing new technologies in schools
How are students responding to new AI tools in their classrooms?
The most important advances schools should make with their use of AI in the next year

About today’s guests

Aatash Parikh, founder of Inkwire, is an educator and an engineer. Aatash has worked as a software engineer at companies like Google & Khan Academy and as a middle school teacher in Oakland Unified School District. Connect on Twitter or LinkedIn.

Priten Shah is the CEO of Pedagogy.Cloud, which provides innovative technology solutions to help educators navigate global challenges in a rapidly evolving world. He is also the author of Wiley’s Jossey-Bass publication, AI & The Future of Education: Teaching in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. He and his team are currently focused on helping educational organizations adapt to the ever growing capabilities of AI. Connect with Priten on Twitter or LinkedIn.

About today’s host

Ross Romano is a co-founder of the BE Podcast Network and CEO of September Strategies, a coaching and consulting firm that helps organizations and high-performing leaders in the K-12 education industry communicate their vision and make strategic decisions that lead to long-term success. Connect on Twitter @RossBRomano or https://www.linkedin.com/in/rossromano

Listen to his other shows:

The Authority — deep-dive interviews with the leading minds in leadership, management, education, and personal development.
Sideline Sessions — conversations with successful coaches and performance experts from professional, collegiate, and youth sports.

Hear about:

How do we understand what technologies are truly “AI?”
What we’re still waiting to learn about what AI technologies can and will become
What it means to become “AI literate”
Helping to solve persistent problems in education
Appropriately embracing new technologies in schools
How are students responding to new AI tools in their classrooms?
The most important advances schools should make with their use of AI in the next year

About today’s guests

About today’s host

Listen to his other shows:

The Authority — deep-dive interviews with the leading minds in leadership, management, education, and personal development.
Sideline Sessions — conversations with successful coaches and performance experts from professional, collegiate, and youth sports.

Previous Episode

How to stop the summer slide with Connected Class founder Christel Reaves

Christel Reaves, founder and CEO of Connected Class, returns to the show to talk us through strategies for summer learning success.

Hear about:

The significant challenges posed by the “Summer Slide”
Why math and reading are the most critical subject areas for summer learning
How the opportunity cost of time spent re-learning material holds the whole class back
Summer learning resources offered by Connected Class that make learning fun for families (Learn more: https://bit.ly/3QSDbyE)
How parents support summer learning
What schools can do to prioritize better summer learning

About today’s guest

Christel Reaves, founder and CEO of Connected Class, is an enthusiastic educator dedicated to improving learning and equipping educators to succeed. Her passion for ensuring family engagement throughout the learning process is evident and at the core of every product and service provided by Connected Class. She oversees a team of Instructional Specialists to support schools, focusing on helping educators analyze data, develop action plans, implement instructional strategies, and enhance family engagement for improved student achievement.

Before Christel was the founder of Connected Class, she was a classroom teacher, county resource educator and district administrator. She worked closely with the state to remove low-performing Title I schools from Intervene status. Over the past 25 years, she has helped many schools improve their student performance and engage families. Learn more: www.connectedclass.com

About today’s host

Ross Romano is a co-founder of the Be Podcast Network and CEO of September Strategies, a coaching and consulting firm that helps organizations and high-performing leaders in the K-12 education industry communicate their vision and make strategic decisions that lead to long-term success. Connect on Twitter @RossBRomano or https://www.linkedin.com/in/rossromano

Listen to his other shows:

The Authority — deep-dive interviews with the leading minds in leadership, management, education, and personal development.
Sideline Sessions — conversations with successful coaches and performance experts from professional, collegiate, and youth sports.

Next Episode

Data-driven coaching and purposeful walkthroughs with Dr. Mat Barnett

In this episode, we hear from Dr. Mat Barnett, Director of TK-12 Programs Beaumont Unified School District (CA). Mat began his career as a teacher in Anaheim, CA, and also held roles including junior high principal and director of education services in the Fullerton School District.

Mat describes his interesting journey to the education field, his approach to coaching and professional development, fostering student ownership of learning, and more. Hear about:

Professional learning focused on the entire classroom experience
Helping teachers focus on the things that are most valuable
How Classroom Mosaic enables data-driven coaching in the district
Clear communication around the purpose of walkthroughs
Feedback from administrators and teachers about purposeful shifts in coaching
Techniques to improve relationships between coaches and teachers
“You have to have that implementation-level data collecting tool.” Why this is critical for districts and how a tool like Classroom Mosaic supports educators.

About today’s host

Tanya Sheckley is the Founder and President of UP Academy, a progressive elementary lab school in San Mateo, California. UP Academy is reinventing education by customizing learning for each student, integrating project-based learning throughout its curriculum, and supporting students with disabilities to attend alongside able-bodied students in mixed-age classrooms.

Tanya hosts the Rebel Educator podcast, speaks across the country on the future of education, and leads professional development programs for school administrators and educators. Listen to Rebel Educator here: https://re.bepodcast.network/

About Classroom Mosaic:

We help K-12 leaders support, develop, and retain their teachers. For over a decade, we've worked with educators worldwide from districts large (100k students) and small (150 students) to transform instructional practice, guide professional development, and impact student learning.

We believe every student deserves a great education. And a great education starts with great teachers supported by great leaders. Learn more: