Session details
NJSBA Workshop 2026
20,000 STUDENTS.
20,000 JOURNEYS?
Every student is different. What if learning could be too?
Now make 20,000 personal
Meet Maya. Ethan. Jordan.
On paper, they don't look very different.
Ethan
Jordan
Same grade.
Very different students.
Academics tell us something. Attendance tells us something else. Strengths, interests, competencies, and aspirations add dimensions we may never see on a transcript.
The more complete the picture, the more interesting the question becomes.
What question?
If every student is different, why should every learning journey be the same?
Great educators already personalize wherever they can. But there is a practical limit.
20,000
How do you personalize an entire district without asking educators to do 20,000 times the work?
The AI conversation
What if AI didn’t replace the teacher...But made personalization possible for the teacher?
Understand
Help bring appropriate dimensions of a student together.
Personalize
Help educators explore learning pathways suited to different learners.
Orchestrate
Eventually help manage the complexity of curriculum, resources and scheduling at scale.
Not 20,000 decisions made by AI. 20,000 students better understood by educators.
But should AI know everything?
- What should AI know about a
student? - What should it never infer?
- Who gets to see what?
- Which decisions must always remain human?
The future of personalized learning isn't simply a technology question. It's an education, privacy, governance, and human judgment question.
AI can assist.
Educators must decide.
From possibility to practice
The conversation starts in Edison Township.
Ken Blekeski
Assistant Principal
John Adams & Herbert Hoover Middle Schools · Edison Township Public Schools
Edison Township is already thinking beyond traditional academic measures through work including Portrait of a Graduate, asking what schools should understand about students beyond grades alone.
Ken brings the educator's perspective.
Raju Dave
Product Innovation & AI
Education360
More than two decades in technology, digital transformation and product innovation, with AI strategy education through MIT Sloan School of Management's Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy.
Raju takes the question forward.
One perspective begins with what educators know today. The other asks what responsible technology could make possible tomorrow.
What you'll experience
Not another AI presentation.
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Three students.
We'll start with three learners who appear remarkably similar and progressively reveal what makes each one different.
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One impossible challenge.
We'll confront privacy, inference, student choice and the decisions AI should never make.
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One conversation.
An educator and technology innovator looking at the same future from different sides.
And we'll ask the room to help answer what comes next.
NJSBA WORKSHOP 2026
20,000 STUDENTS.
20,000 LEARNING JOURNEYS.
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310, Atlantic City Convention Center
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Tuesday, October 20
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM ET
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