Cool Cat Teacher Talk

We Can't Mess This One Up: AI, Schools, and What Comes Next

Should schools ban AI or teach it? In September 2026, New York City banned student AI tools from pre-K through eighth grade, while the UAE, China, India, and Alabama move

How to Become a Better Teacher Every Day

Teaching is hard, and it keeps changing. Vicki Davis opens with the 200-question test she gave the second week of her first year — a disaster that made her ask what she a

Someone Who Noticed: Kathy Nimmer, the Helen Keller Award, and Why Noticing Matters in the Age of AI

Every AI story in the news right now has a human being at the center of it who looked twice. A reporter read the products on Teachers Pay Teachers. A community college ch

See the Kid In Front of You, Not the Screen

How do we help this next generation with their relationship to screens, to each other, and to the adults in their lives? That's the question we're digging into today. Bet

Leading With Love: Two Principals of the Year on What Actually Works (Part 2)

Two women were named a 2026 National Principal of the Year — and when you ask them how they did it, they both use the same word: love. In part two of this leadership seri

Leadership You Can Learn — Part One: Who You're Becoming

Leadership is not a personality you're born with. It can be learned — and if it can be learned, it can be taught. In part one of a two-part series, Vicki Davis talks with

AI With Intention: What Leaders Decide and Teachers Do

AI is already in your school—the real question is how to use it on purpose. In Part 3 of the ISTE 2026 AI & EdTech Super Series, recorded live in Orlando, Vicki Davis tal

Humans Teaching Humans About the Machine — ISTE 2026 AI & EdTech Supershow, Part 2

Host Vicki Davis takes her microphone onto the floor at ISTE 2026 in Orlando for Part 2 of the ISTE AI and EdTech Supershow. Karim Meghji, President and CEO of CodeAI — t

ISTE 2026, AI Assessment, and Space Education - ISTE AI/Edtech Supershow - Part 1

ISTE 2026  Buzz + AI assessment + space education: the conversations every teacher is having this summer, with Dr. Carmalita Seitz, Steve Swanson, and Dr. Mark Wagner.

Heart First. Tools Second. — How to Teach and Use Tech in Today's World

Heart first, tools second. That's the secret to teaching well in the age of AI — and on this Cool Cat Teacher Talk, Vicki Davis and three educators show you how. Great

Leadership Lessons: See the Gap. Be the Bridge.

Leadership in education isn't a title — it's seeing a gap and building the bridge. A 16-year-old coder, a college-readiness expert, and a national principal show how. I

Data Driven Schools: Driving Learning and Improving Relationships | Cool Cat Teacher Talk S6E2

Data-driven schools aren't about spreadsheets — they're about seeing students. AJ Juliani led 150 educators in building AI-powered data dashboards using Claude Code, no c

Honest Conversations About AI: The Need for Truth

Are we being honest about what AI is really doing in our classrooms? Two leading thinkers say the conversation most of us need to have isn't happening yet. MIT's Justin

Traveling With Students — Five Teachers Who Took the Leap

Five teachers — from Laredo to Denver to rural Colorado — share what really happens when you take students traveling. The fundraising. The quiet student who finds his voi

What AI Can't Do: Being Beautifully Human

In the age of AI, what can machines never do? Communication. Emotional intelligence. Real editing. True connection. This episode explores what makes us beautifully, irrep

Vibe Coding, Agentic AI, and What Schools Must Teach Now

What if you could describe exactly what you want and let AI write the code? That's vibe coding—and it's transforming how teachers create classroom tools. In this episode,

STEAM Classroom Ideas That Work: 9 Experts Share What's Real

STEAM classroom ideas that actually work — from AI literacy to garden-based science. Nine expert educators share hands-on strategies you can use in your classroom this we

The STEAM Mindset: Empowering Excitement and Learning

What happens when teachers stop starting with answers and start with questions instead? In this first episode of our two-part STEAM Super Series, twelve educators share

The Beautiful Nuance of Neurodiversity in the Classroom

One in five children in the U.S. is neurodivergent, yet one in three educators believes learning disabilities are just laziness. In this episode of Cool Cat Teacher Talk,

Building Classroom Culture That Transforms Learning

Nearly half of teachers say their students show little to no interest in learning. In this episode of Cool Cat Teacher Talk, four educators from around the world share wh