Most literacy plans don't need another program. They need the pieces they already have to work as one system. The core reading program, the intervention tiers, the supports for students with IEPs and for English learners, the reading that happens in science and social studies: each can be strong on its own and still not add up to something a teacher can follow from one day to the next. That alignment is what curriculum infrastructure is for. NovoDia authors the pieces a distr

On Wednesday our team joins Region 20 directors at Education Service Center, Region 20 Director's Meeting and Curriculum Forum in San Antonio. District directors know exactly what's missing, because they're the ones carrying it: The accelerated math pathway, the emergent bilingual support that has to reach every content area, the CTE program built around employers in your own county, the elective with a dozen students that no publisher will write. NovoDia authors those progra

Most districts aren't short on curriculum. They're short on the hands and the strategy to put it together. That gap shows up in specific places: the course a new state mandate requires, the program for a small group of students, the pathway tied to local employers. Each one is too specific for a publisher to build and too big for a team already at capacity. NovoDia is curriculum infrastructure, authored to fit. We author complete programs to a district's own standards: scope

I’m excited to share that I’ve started a new chapter as Chief Product and Technology Officer at NovoDIA. Education shapes the opportunities available to every child. At a time when technology and AI in particular are transforming how we learn and work, K-12 districts and educators need better tools to prepare students for the future. That is what drew me to NovoDIA. I have been deeply impressed by the vision, technology, and strong foundation that the NovoDIA team has already

In August, the U.S. Department of Education told states and districts to demand RCTs and hard evidence of effectiveness before buying instructional technology. Last week, Florida became the first state to write that standard into binding rule. At the same time, state mandates keep multiplying, special populations and low-incidence programs keep going underserved, and every district wants its own voice in what its kids are taught. Those two demands are pulling in opposite dire

We're at the GACIS Fall Conference in Athens, GA this week, September 23-25. If your district is carrying a course nobody publishes - the niche elective, the pathway tied to one local employer, the companion program that no longer aligns, the mandate with nothing behind it - come and find us. We'll be there all three days. Read more

Anthropic just drew a line. Most of EdTech is about to find out which side they're on. Claude for Teachers launched this summer. Free, direct to individual teachers, built to generate lesson plans, differentiate for learners, map to standards. No district tier. No procurement. No accountability chain. Just a teacher, a prompt, and an output. EdTech leaders read it as a death notice for hundreds of EdTech startups. Lesson-plan generators, worksheet tools, "AI for teachers" pla

LA and NYC didn't ban AI in schools. They banned 𝐠𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠. The real target isn't "AI." It's one-off, ungoverned content - a prompt typed, material generated, nothing behind it. No standard, no review, no record. 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐮𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧. The same pattern runs unchecked in a lot of the "teacher tools" that got waved through instead. Type a prompt, get a lesson plan. Sporadic, disconnected from anything the district adopted. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨

22 schools. Multiple ELA programs. Multiple math programs. Kids transferring between buildings and landing in totally different language, totally different lessons. That was Waukegan Public Schools when Eduardo Cesario arrived eight years ago. On Beyond the Box, Dr. Ronald Taylor sits down with Eduardo, now Deputy Superintendent of Academic Programs and Supports, to walk through how the district built coherence without steamrolling teachers: • A districtwide curriculum audit

Seven school districts. One regional CTE center. A 30-mile bus ride to give rural North Dakota students the same options a suburban high school takes for granted. That's Grand Forks Public Schools' approach - and on Beyond the Box, Dr. Ronald Taylor sits down with Eric Ripley, Executive Director of Career & Technical Education, to unpack how it actually works. Eric brings 28 years in CTE - a decade in the classroom, 18 as an administrator - and a sharp point of view on where

72 → 280 students. 500-person waitlist. 7am zero period fills up first. That's Williamson County Schools' Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center - in a district where 90%+ of students go to college and the average ACT is above 26. On Beyond the Box, Dr. Ronald Taylor sits down with Jeremy Qualls, Executive Director of Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Director of CTE. What Jeremy has built breaks the usual pattern: • CTE positioned as a college-application accelerator, not

Drum roll, please 🥁 🥁 🥁 We're excited to announce our next live learning session as our State Deep Dive: Florida, happening on August 11, featuring expert speaker Bryan R. McCorkle! This session is a must for anyone looking to understand Florida’s K-12 market and the structural shifts it is currently undergoing, having the ability to impact your go-to-market strategy. Don’t miss your chance to learn from a leader in the field! Register now to secure your spot: https://lnkd

67.5% → 93%. That's the graduation rate for students with IEPs at Vallejo City Unified before and after one year under Kristen Hardy, Executive Director of Special Education / SELPA. Beyond the Box is back after the summer break, and Dr. Ronald Taylor sits down with Kristen to unpack what actually moved the number: • Every mild/moderate IEP student in core curriculum. No pull-out to worksheets. • Co-teaching with self-selected partners and protected planning time. • Master sc

North Texas Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents leaders are running districts where the gap between "what works" and "what reaches every student" is the daily job, not the conference topic. Proud to support the celebration, and the year-round work behind it. Thank you Dr. Rick Fernandez. Read more

Alyssa Mathewson, NovoDia's Director of Partnerships, spent Friday at the California Distinguished Schools Awards Ceremony - a room of more than 1,000 educators, schools closing gaps, and teachers being recognized for the work that's moving student outcomes. She also sat in on a literacy session with the California Department of Education, where one data point stood out: growth is trending in the right direction, but at the current pace, getting every student where they need

This week, NovoDia and ESC 20 took a step forward in a collaborative project to bring curriculum infrastructure to districts across the region. Thank you to Lindsey Vela, Ph.D. (ESC 20), Sheryl Mills, and Donisha Miller (Poteet ISD) for hosting the first of many teacher training sessions. The session marked the start of what we expect to be a long and fruitful partnership - one focused on giving teachers a coherent, aligned instructional system rather than another disconnecte

Alyssa Mathewson and Bryan McCorkle represented NovoDia at this month's RTM Business Group K-12 event in San Diego. The setting on the bay was hard to beat, but the conversations were what stood out: a thoughtful group of district leaders, a lot of candor, and the kind of unhurried exchanges that don't usually fit into a normal workweek. These rooms matter. They're where the gap between "what's working in pockets" and "what works at scale" gets discussed honestly, by the peop

New Episode of "Beyond the Box" Dr. Ronald Taylor sits down with Rusty Gordon, Director of Pupil Services at Marysville Joint Unified School District in California, to explore how to integrate special education into a coherent districtwide instructional system. Rusty has spent years doing the unglamorous but essential work of connecting special education to core instruction - across schools, across teams, and across leadership cycles. The conversation gets practical fast: how

This week, our team was in San Antonio for the Institute for Education Innovation Spring Summit - three days alongside superintendents and district leaders organized around one theme: Scaling with Intention. What we heard in the 1:1s reinforced something we see everywhere: the ambition is there. The gap is infrastructure. Districts with 18 sites struggling to keep curriculum coherent across buildings. Districts with 92 schools that have done the hard work of alignment, but ar

New Episode of "Beyond the Box" Dr. Ronald Taylor sits down with Troy Lange, Executive Director of Exceptional Student Services at Eagle County School District in Colorado, to answer it. Troy oversees special education, gifted & talented, and nursing services across a district serving students ages 3 to 21. The conversation gets into real operational terrain: moving from teacher-selected materials to a districtwide service delivery model, building intervention fidelity that