Essay ·
Banning AI Will Not Solve the Cheating Problem
Cheating predates AI. Bans miss the real problem: schools built more for compliance than learning. Here's what LightHouse does differently.
Contributor
Catherine Gobron
Executive Director, LightWorks Collective; co-founder of LightHouse
Catherine co-founded LightHouse with Josiah S. Litant and they led the organization together for three years. In 2018 Josiah relocated and Catherine stepped up to the role of Executive Director.
Catherine has been a driver in the leading edge of education for more than two decades. Before LightHouse she spent 12 years at North Star: Self-Directed Learning for Teens as Program Director and was a founding board member for Liberated Learners, the umbrella program connecting centers using the North Star model.
Catherine holds two bachelors degrees from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a Masters in Education, Creative Arts in Learning, from Lesley University. She also holds a Montessori Certification from New England Montessori Teacher Education Center.
Contributions
Essay ·
Meaningful Work Matters More in the Age of AI
When AI can produce the assignment, schools must ask what the work was for. Meaningful learning builds judgment, curiosity, and the capacity to do things that matter.
Essay ·
AI Is Making the Case for a Different Kind of School
AI is changing what machines can do—and sharpening the case for education built around curiosity, agency, judgment, collaboration, and learning how to learn.
Field note ·
Career Pathways in the Age of AI: Notes from the Long Table
LightHouse (Holyoke, MA) is a competency-based middle and high school. Notes on career pathways in the age of AI, from our August Long Table.