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Insights & Updates
Insights, updates, and articles about accreditation, education, and AI from the Novana team.
My first summer reading this year: Connecting the Dots of Accreditation, by Barry Groves and Marilyn S. George. A candid book from two people who have spent their careers inside the system, and who are willing to ask harder questions about it than most of us on the outside ever do.
Most failed rollouts are not bad tools or bad schools. They are good ones that never met in the middle. New research shows why a tool's impact and a school's readiness are really the same number, which means buyers and builders are solving one problem from opposite ends. Here is what each side can do about the half the other cannot see.
Observation gets you in the room. But watching a school for a day shows you the friction, not what holds it in place. Real edtech depth comes from living the problem, not just watching it. A response to Sarah Finnemore's Observation Principle.
The best founders and the sharpest money keep crowding the same corner of education. A decade inside education taught me where they're all missing: not the classroom, but the people trying to hold the whole thing together, and why that's so hard to see from the outside.
Investors are fleeing software at a pace that's rattled the whole industry, and "AI killed SaaS" has become conventional wisdom. For the founders building education's future, and the leaders deciding which tools to trust - the real question isn't whether software survives, but which kind does, and why the answer matters more in education than almost anywhere else.
My husband perfects Swiss watches to the micron; I've spent a decade chasing "quality" in education. Using the 6M framework from his world, here's why a good school can't be manufactured — messier than a watch, and all the more worth doing.
Students, teachers, and increasingly leaders themselves are all using AI tools daily, just without a shared policy to lean on. The question is no longer whether to write one, it's how to write one people will actually use.