AI is eating education alive.
Well. Not eating. Rewriting.
The rules of teaching and learning are bending, breaking, reforming. Schools aren’t just tweaking lessons. They’re overhauling the whole machinery of instruction, roles, and systems. It has to work for today’s kids, sure, but also for whoever comes next.
Navigating that chaos requires people who are actually in the trenches.
That is where the ISTE+ASCD Voices of Change Fellowship comes in.
It puts the microphone directly in the hands of teachers and leaders. The platform? EdSurge. The method? First-person essays. Multimedia stories. Raw, real-time accounts of how educators are handling the pressure while it is happening.
During the hunt for the 2025-2026 cohort, we listened to hundreds. Maybe more.
They weren’t waiting for permission. They were already dragging their communities into new practices. Building the future as they teach it.
The winners reflect that grind.
As the program editor, I get to hand over the gavel for another year. The sixth cohort is locked in. Six educators. All exceptional. None of them hiding from the hard stuff.
Here is who they are.
We are moving away from abstract policy discussions.
Real classrooms require real voices.
