What AI Can’t Replace: GOA Faculty on the Future of Assignment Design
GOA teachers share how they redesigned assignments so students can't hand the thinking to AI: local data, visible reasoning, and empathy for learners.
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Exploring what’s working, what’s next, and what’s possible
How Do We Cultivate a Coaching Culture at Our Schools and Organizations?
Explore how cultivating a coaching culture can transform schools by building community, deepening conversations, and embedding reflection. Learn practical strategies to support growth, curiosity, and connection among educators and students.
Still Working On It: Feedback, AI, and the Conversations Faculty Want
How are teachers handling AI and feedback? GOA faculty share how they’re redesigning assignments, making thinking visible, and rethinking feedback.
Take It From Faculty Camp: Three Shifts Worth Bringing Into Your School Year
From GOA's Faculty Camp, three shifts for teachers heading back to school: using AI to augment thinking, designing for connection, and building community.
How to Get to Know Your Students as Learners
Knowing about students isn't the same as knowing them as learners. Three practices to understand how your students learn, from week-one questions to quick check-ins.
Summer Playlist 2026: Resources for Reflection and Inspiration
Discover GOA's Summer Playlist 2026: books, podcasts, songs, and videos recommended by our educators to spark curiosity and recharge over the break.
What Fosters Authentic Learning Experiences? — GOA's Design Principles
We’ve explored how intentional course design shapes relevance, ownership, and connection across learning experiences. GOA’s final two design principles work together to provide students structured opportunities to practice, receive feedback, and demonstrate what they know.
Building an Ecosystem of Feedback on a Rowing Team
Feedback is most powerful as part of an intentional ecosystem — and that principle, as Neil Bergenroth writes, is universal. This article reflects the kind of thinking that emerged from our collaboration with Holland Hall around deepening feedback practice. What follows is reposted from Neil's website at coachbergenroth.com, where he takes these ideas into his coaching context and shows how they can take root anywhere people are working to learn, improve, and grow.
What Drives Student Ownership? — GOA's Design Principles
Explore how GOA’s design principles surrounding fostering student agency, positioning the teacher as a coach, and building global community drive student ownership and deepen learning through real-world, inquiry-based course experiences.
What Makes Learning Relevant? — GOA's Design Principles
Discover how intentional course design at GOA uses real-world context, meaningful application, and reflection to create engaging, rigorous learning experiences that prepare students to apply their knowledge in real-world settings.
The AI Classroom — Keeping the Human in the Work
GOA faculty member Meagan Frazier shares practical ways to keep humans at the center of learning in the age of AI—helping students think, create, and engage meaningfully alongside new technologies.
