Flipping the Focus

12/19/2025

What future with AI are we envisioning for future generations? Check out this inspiring and insightful thought leadership article, "AI Literacies for the Post-Anthropocentric Age," by Alec Couros

https://couros.substack.com/p/ai-literacies-for-the-post-anthropocentric?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

Optimizing Human Compatibility in a Synthetic World

12/13/2025

AI can help us work faster, but it can’t decide what matters.

I’ve just published a new blog post on designing AI-supported assessments that are intentional, valid, and instructionally aligned.

If you’re using AI tools for assessment design (or thinking about it), this piece focuses on the conditions educators must set for quality to emerge.

(Includes a short video overview.)

https://bit.ly/AI-assessment-design

12/09/2025

✨ Big news! ✨
Flipping the Focus is now officially incorporated across Canada! 🇨🇦

This milestone reflects years of partnering with educators and leaders to strengthen digital learning, blended instruction, coding, mathematics instruction, and assessment.

I’m incredibly grateful for every conversation, collaboration, challenge, and shared idea along the way. This next chapter will bring new opportunities to support educators across the country — and I can’t wait to dive in!

Thank you for being part of this journey. Here’s to what comes next!! 😀

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12/03/2025

Exciting update! I’ve added short video guides across my website to make it easier for educators and leaders to explore what I do and how we can work together.

Each page now opens with a quick, friendly greeting—almost like I’m guiding you through the site myself. The videos follow a natural story arc:

-> Home: What Flipping the Focus is all about
-> About: Who I am and what fuels my work
-> My Work in Education: The projects, partnerships, and impact shaping my practice
-> Working Together: How I collaborate with educators and organizations
-> Contact & Service Requests: How to reach out and take the next step

My hope is that these videos make the experience more personal, more intuitive, and more welcoming—supporting visitors in finding what they need quickly and confidently.

Check it out: https://flippingthefocus.ca



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12/01/2025

✨ New! Flipping the Focus – Service Matching Assistant ✨

I’m excited to introduce a new AI-powered tool designed to help educators, school leaders, and district teams explore PD options and better understand their own needs, goals, and next steps.

Whether you're planning for:
💡 Blended learning
🤖 AI in teaching & learning
🧩 Coding & computational thinking
📚 Digital literacy & media literacy
🎯 Assessment redesign
🏫 School or district improvement planning

…this guide walks you through a few simple questions to help clarify your priorities and identify 1–3 aligned pathways from my Essentials, Advanced Suite, or Leadership & Strategy Services.

It’s friendly, fast, and supports your thinking—whether you’re choosing a service with Flipping the Focus or simply planning your next steps as an educator or leader.

Ready to explore your pathway?
👉 Link in bio (https://bit.ly/ai-matching-service)

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12/01/2025

Exciting news!

I’ve launched a new AI-powered Service Matching Assistant to help educators, school leaders, and district teams not only explore Flipping the Focus' professional learning and consulting services—but also deepen their own understanding of what they need and how to plan for meaningful outcomes.

Whether or not you ultimately choose to work with me, this tool can help you think more clearly about:

- What you’re trying to achieve
- The kind of support that will best enable your goals
- How to frame your needs for planning, proposals, or conversations with colleagues
- What a strong professional learning pathway could look like for your classroom, school, or system

Navigating workshops, coaching, resource design, or system-level strategy can feel overwhelming—so I built a smart, supportive way to get started.

This interactive assistant:

- Asks a few simple, targeted questions
- Helps you clarify your goals
- Recommends 1–3 aligned options from my Essentials, Advanced Suite, or Leadership & Strategy Services catalogs
- Explains why each option is a strong fit
- Provides a polished summary you can paste directly into my contact form
or use internally for your own planning

Whether you’re exploring blended learning, digital literacy, coding, AI, assessment design, or long-term system strategy, the guide is designed to help you find clarity and direction—quickly and confidently.

I’m excited to make the experience of discovering the right support not only smoother and more personalized, but also more empowering for education professionals looking to plan their next steps.

Access the assistant here: https://bit.ly/ai-matching-service

11/29/2025

Today, I had the incredible privilege of emceeing a session hosted by Logics Academy and sponsored by Google Canada: "Ctrl+AI: Vibe Coding and the Future of K12 CS" with the inspiring Michael Fricano II.

In this session, we explored how “vibe coding” enables students to generate code through natural language and what that means for teaching and learning in an AI-rich world.

We dug into:
- Practical classroom uses of AI coding tools
- Ethical considerations and responsible use
- How to ensure AI augments rather than replaces student problem-solving
- The evolving role of teachers as designers, guides, and conceptual anchors

It’s an exciting time for K12 education, and I’m grateful to be part of conversations that push our thinking forward while centering student agency, creativity, and critical thinking.

Watch the recording: https://bit.ly/logics-vibe-coding

Thank you to Logics Academy, Google Canada, and Michael Fricano II for an energizing and forward-looking experience.

11/22/2025

What a great session! I had the pleasure of being the session admin and emcee for Logics Academy 's Microsoft-sponsored workshop on "Navigating and Utilizing Copilot for Educators."

We dug into real, classroom-ready ways Copilot can help with lesson planning, content creation, feedback, collaboration, and even those time-consuming admin tasks. Lots of practical and inspiring ideas!

Thanks to everyone who spent part of their day exploring how AI can support the work we do with students every day 😀

Check out the session: https://www.youtube.com/live/XzEuYgg1Gio?si=TrBZOiQYR5VbQcuf

Register for upcoming, free live events with Logics Academy: https://logicsacademy.com/pages/webinars

10/31/2025

"Embracing Computer Science & AI Literacy Year-Round (2025 Update)"

Computer Science Education Week is more than a moment — it’s a mindset!

This year, I’ve updated my article to reflect how AI literacy is shaping the future of learning.

From playful patterning in kindergarten to ethical AI debates in secondary school classrooms, this article explores how we can help students think critically, create responsibly, and lead with purpose in a connected world.

Discover new grade-band examples (K-2, 3-6, 7-9, 10-12) that blend computer science fundamentals with thoughtful, age-appropriate approaches to AI.

👉 Read here: https://bit.ly/CSxAILiteracy

10/27/2025

Thankful for the People, Projects, and Purpose Behind Every Learning Story!

Over the past decade, I’ve had the privilege of collaborating with incredible educators and organizations who are shaping the future of teaching and learning in Ontario and beyond.

Each partnership has been a chance to co-create meaningful teacher and student resources that reflect our shared commitment to quality, equity, and innovation in education.

💛 A heartfelt thank you to the organizations and individuals who have trusted me with their projects and ideas!

🌟 (Logo Computer Systems, Inc) – Authoring tutorials and assessments to support students learning to code and coding to learn.
🌟 – Designing live STEM and coding lessons on the platform.
🌟 – Writing and refining mathematics lessons aligned with curriculum and accessibility standards.
🌟 – Facilitating educator PD and student STEM sessions, and emceeing partner-led events.
🌟 – Lassonde School of Engineering – Consultant supporting the creation of teacher resources that bridge coding, engineering, and real-world problem solving.
🌟 Ontario Association for Mathematics Educators – Team lead for 2020 Math Curriculum support lessons (Coding, Financial Literacy, Modelling, Number).
🌟 & (National Council for Teachers of Mathematics) – Reviewer for professional manuscripts in math education.
🌟 – Range Finder, Scoring Supervisor, and EDI Committee Member for Ontario’s Grade 9 Mathematics Assessment.
🌟 (Ottawa Zone for Mathematics Educators) – President, fostering local collaboration and growth in math education.
🌟 Continuing Education – Instructor for professional learning (ABQ Mathematics courses).

– My ongoing consultancy supporting educators with , , , and teaching and learning (https://flippingthefocus.ca).

🙏 I’m humbled by every opportunity to learn alongside such passionate professionals and teams—thank you for valuing my contributions and challenging me to grow!

⚡ If your organization is looking to design high-quality teacher or student resources, or to explore new ways of integrating technology, pedagogy, and assessment—let’s connect. Together, we can create the next great learning experience!

10/27/2025

New Release! "Educator Guide — Building Your Own AI Agent in Microsoft Copilot"

What if every educator had their own AI teaching assistant—one that understood their curriculum, their students, and their goals?

My newest resource walks teachers step-by-step through creating their own AI agents inside Microsoft Copilot Studio—no coding required.

Inside, you’ll find:
-Explanations of what AI agents are (and how they differ from chatbots)
-Step-by-step instructions for configuring an agent in Copilot Studio
-A full example: The AI Assessment Design Assistant, based on the AI Assessment Scale (Perkins et al., 2024)
-Prompts, templates, and flowcharts to help educators bring ethical and purposeful AI use into their practice

Whether you’re exploring AI agents for the first time or mentoring others in your district, this guide is a practical entry point into AI-powered teaching and assessment.

Now available on my Teachers Pay Teachers webstore: https://bit.ly/createAIagent

09/23/2025

Code → Shapes → Art ✨

Introduce coding the creative way! With "Geometric Art with Lynx," students draw, trace, fill, and randomize geometric designs while learning coding basics.

Teacher + student guides included!

➡️➡️➡️ https://bit.ly/4nKUC1W

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