Accreditation Shouldn't Be a Sprint
Accreditation shouldn't be a sprint to the visit. It should be driven by the improvement work your school is already doing.
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Insights, updates, and articles about accreditation, education, and AI from the Novana team.
Your school's evidence is everywhere. Here's how to find out what's actually working.
Your school's evidence sits in Drive, the SIS, the LMS and old binders. A practical self-check for heads of school to see what's really working.
Accreditation Tells You a School Is Capable. It Never Tells You Whether It's Ready, and With AI in the Building That Gap Is Now Everything.
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.
EdTech Only Works When Both Sides Build for It: A Note to the Schools That Buy and the Startups That Build
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.
Edtech Can't Simplify What It Hasn't Lived
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 Edtech Blind Spot: Crowded Into a Small Corner of Education, While the Biggest Pains Go Unsolved
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.
Software Isn't Dead, and Neither Is Edtech. The Moat Just Moved.
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.
Education & Watchmaking: Quality, Lost in Translation
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.
Your AI policy won't save you, capacity will: Why compliance is the wrong goal for schools.
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.