On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Perpetual Baffour, the research director at the Learning Agency Lab, joins Mike to discuss her creation of an AI Chatbot designed to give teachers and school leaders research-based advice. Then, on the Research Minute, Amber discusses a study covering the negative impacts on teacher pay of a Texas policy to expand alternative teacher certification.

Recommended content:

•  “Creating a custom Chabot to give evidence-based education advice”—Learning Agency Lab
• “The promise of personalized learning never delivered. Today’s AI is different.”—John Bailey
• “AI won’t replace teachers, but it can make them more effective.” —Nathaniel Grossman
• Sarah Guthery and Lauren Bailes, “Unintended Consequences of Expanding Teacher Preparation Pathways: Does Alternative Licensure Attenuate New Teacher Pay?” American Education Research Association (March 2023)

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