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The Record
Ideas, evidence and findings on what happens when educators create their own evidence of teaching and learning.
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Professional practice is changing
Professionalism once meant being trusted to work independently from your expertise. Increasingly, it means creating a record of your work—using it to check and improve your judgment, give AI the context to make you more effective, and turn what you do into useful evidence, documentation…
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Teaching remains deeply human
Whether classrooms embrace technology or remain largely tech-free, teaching depends on things data rarely captures: judgment, context, relationships, adaptation—and much more than simply motivating students. Without an evidence base for this human work, it can’t adequately shape practice or policy. What remains invisible risks being…
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Data is driving mistrust in schools
Schools have more data than ever, but much of it is disconnected from the reality of teaching and learning. When test scores, dashboards and other proxies become the evidence used to make decisions, teachers feel misrepresented, leaders struggle to understand what is really happening, and…
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Learning now needs to be verified
Every platform produces data about learning, but it’s all a proxy for the real thing—and AI makes those signals easier than ever to fake or cheat. Learning can’t just be measured; it has to be observed in what students can explain, create, apply and do.…