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Looking to bring AI into your classroom without spending hours prepping? Check out the CRAFT collection from Stanford - Classroom-Ready Resources About AI For Teaching: 👉 https://craft.stanford.edu/resources/ These lessons are ✅ Vetted and co-designed with real teachers 🧠 Thoughtful and discussion-ready 🛠️ Low/no prep 🕒 Flexible - 15-minute activities to multi-day explorations CRAFT’s resources are designed to fit seamlessly into your teaching schedule and are adaptable across a wide range of subjects - science, arts, history-social science, language arts, math, and societal studies. A few of our favorites 🤖 How Can I Build My Own Chatbot? Students create and test their own chatbots while exploring how prompts shape AI behavior - and the opportunities and risks that come with it. 📝 Is ChatGPT Plagiarizing? A great entry point into ethical questions around AI and authorship - what does it really mean to plagiarize in the age of generative tools? 🎵 How Can AI Be Used in Music Generation? Students compare AI-generated lyrics and compositions to human-created work, then dig into creative and ethical debates. Whether you have 15 minutes or an entire week, these classroom-ready lessons make it easy to bring meaningful AI conversations to your students. ✨ Explore the full collection:https://craft.stanford.edu Let me know if you try one - I’d love to hear how it goes!

Today, Gen Z is dealing with an entirely new job market and economy compared to previous generations. So how can we best guide them to thrive in this fast-changing world? Join Mark C. Perna, generational expert and bestselling author, in a candid and frank exploration of how the paradigm is shifting in school, work, and economic development—and what that means for your child’s future at all levels of education and employment. Supersizing Gen Z's Competitive Advantage: A Master Class for Parents by Mark C. Perna To navigate directly to each topic, click below: • Introduction & Impact (0:40):    • Supersizing Gen Z's Competitive Advan...   • Today’s Shifting Landscape (5:07):    • Supersizing Gen Z's Competitive Advan...   • The Power of a Competitive Advantage (7:40):    • Supersizing Gen Z's Competitive Advan...   • Meet the “WHY” Generation (15:38):    • Supersizing Gen Z's Competitive Advan...   • The Light at the End of the Tunnel (22:53):    • Supersizing Gen Z's Competitive Advan...   • Connecting, Engaging & Answering Why (26:26):    • Supersizing Gen Z's Competitive Advan...   • Education with Purpose (38:28):    • Supersizing Gen Z's Competitive Advan...   • Employment with Passion (52:42):    • Supersizing Gen Z's Competitive Advan...   • Dialogue to Inspire Direction (56:03):    • Supersizing Gen Z's Competitive Advan...   • The “For Now” Decision (1:03:12):    • Supersizing Gen Z's Competitive Advan...   • Shifting the Paradigm (1:08:53):    • Supersizing Gen Z's Competitive Advan...   In this fast-paced master class, you’ll discover how Gen Z thinks, what makes them tick, and how they make decisions. Mark, a dad himself, delivers a behind-the-scenes look at why they operate the way they do and how parents can influence their life and career trajectory in a positive direction. Plus, download the free reflective guide for this master class at Parent-Master-Class-Reflective-Guide_Mark-C-Perna_V1.0.pdf

According to LinkedIn’s latest Skills on the Rise report, communication tops the list of must-have soft skills for landing a job in 2025. Yes — communication. Not AI. Not coding. Not analytics. While technical skills matter, it’s the ability to clearly express ideas, collaborate, and tell your story that’s giving candidates the edge. For educators in career-connected learning, this is a wake-up call:👉 Are we creating enough space for students to practice and demonstrate this skill in real-world ways? 🧠 Think: mock interviews, presentations, storytelling, and reflective writing. 📖 Read the full article via CNBC to see how LinkedIn experts suggest job seekers prove their soft skills — and how you can bring those ideas into your classroom: The No. 1 Soft Skill You Need to Get Hired Now Let’s make sure our students don’t just have skills — they can show them.