Designing Schools

by Dr. Sabba Quidwai

Cultures of innovation begin with a culture of empathy. As you navigate today’s changing world the question remains how do you create these cultures? How do you scale them? And how do you help people develop the mindset and skills to thrive within them?

These are the questions people ask Dr. Sabba Quidwai, researcher, educator and storyteller. Each week we’ll explore the answers with stories and strategies from researchers, education leaders and today’s young people as we explore how might we design schools.

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Future Focus | AI Detection Misses the Point: What Schools Should Protect Instead

AI detection may tell educators that a model was involved, but it cannot answer the question that actually matters: Did the student think, learn, and ...

21m

•Sep 15, 2026

Future Focus | Before Your District Buys Another AI Tool, Ask These Questions

AI tools can look transformative in a demo and fall apart when they encounter the messy data, workflows, and institutional knowledge of a real organiz...

19m

•Sep 14, 2026

Future Focus | Will Teachers Still Have Jobs? What New AI Research Says About the Future of Teaching

New research from OpenAI, Google, PwC, LinkedIn, and Coursera offers a clearer picture of how AI may reshape work and why teaching’s most human qualit...

24m

•Sep 11, 2026

Future Focus | 98 Students Wrote an AI Policy. What They Protected Says Everything About School | Week of August 10, 2026

When 98 high school students from all 50 states gathered in a replica of the U.S. Senate, they did what many adults have struggled to do: debate and p...

23m

•Aug 28, 2026

Future Focus | Stop Chasing the Best AI Model: Build a Strategy That Survives the Next Release | Week of July 17, 2026 (Companion Episode)

With Claude for Teachers, ChatGPT, and Gemini all competing for classrooms, school leaders may feel pressure to pick the “right” AI platform, but that...

18m

•Aug 26, 2026

Future Focus | AI Is Changing Work Faster Than Schools Can Adapt—Here’s What We Teach Now | Week of July 17, 2026

As Nobel laureates, economists, and AI researchers warn that society may not be ready for AI-driven disruption, Dr. Sabba Quidwai asks the question ed...

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•Aug 12, 2026