What We Think

An AI tool invented books that don't exist while we built our science curriculum. Here's what that taught us, and the questions to ask before you trust any AI lesson planner.

Presuming competence was never meant to be conditional. Yet some approaches in our field are quietly recreating the same barriers we set out to dismantle. Families and educators are being told “not yet” when students seek new tools or pathways. This piece calls us back to our foundation: access first, always, and learning environments that adapt to the student—not the other way around.