Leadership is not always complicated. In fact, some of the most impactful leaders I know aren’t the ones with the most impressive titles—they’re the ones who listen deeply, build trust, and help their team members shine. As someone who spent her career in education, working with PreK through university-level faculty and students, I’ve come to believe that effective leadership is more about presence than power. I developed S.P.A.R.K. as a way to organize my thoughts on buildi

AI doesn't think, it only recognizes patterns, and that's exactly why I'm writing a book to guide students toward ethical, intentional use of it. A colleague mentioned a concern to me last week: will AI is replace how our students think? I get the worry, but the question misses something important. AI doesn't "think." It recognizes patterns and structures in the data that it trained on, and then predicts what comes next. Word-by-word. That's the whole mechanism. Once you unde