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Seismic shifts in the federal policy landscape and the progression of AI have left our education research and edtech communities bobbing, weaving, and strategy-refreshing our way through 2025. It’s within this context that Leanlab CEO Katie Boody Adorno returns to this 2023 piece. She reflects on how much has changed in the education landscape since then, how prescient some of her predictions proved to be, and how urgent others have become.
In an article for Edtech Insiders, Leanlab CEO Katie Boody Adorno discusses the importance of inclusive innovation in edtech—particularly with the rapid development and adoption of AI technologies— and how organizations are collaborating to transform education R&D to better support educators and students.
In an environment where top-down federal regulation demanding rigorous evidence of edtech is unlikely, we must work to leverage market forces for good. To do so, we need to work to find the middle ground between solution providers' natural go-to-market inclinations and revenue obligations and R&D; where do those two intersect? School Systems and Educators.
