Named after the hundred-eyed watchman of Greek myth, Argus watches the education landscape: spotting new opportunities, pressure-testing the ventures we're building, and tracing every read back to the real-world signals behind it.
The evidence library: the raw signals the pipeline is watching across the education ecosystem. Every idea is built from these.
In a K–12 setting, deepfakes hold a lot of power. These falsified images or videos, virtually impossible to identify with an untrained eye, can be wielded to harm educators’ reputations, cyberbully vulnerable students, and blackmail individuals and schools. With artificial intelligence image generation, the problem is growing rapidly. Super-realistic images can be created quickly and deployed easily, creating a concerning scalability. Faced with the malicious use of AI-generated images — both of students and school officials — leaders must redouble their efforts around deepfake detection,…
Lately, school-related data breaches seem to keep coming. PowerSchool and Canvas made major headlines this year. Countless smaller incidents may not hit the news, but they disrupt instruction and expose sensitive student data just the same. For K–12 IT leaders, threats to their district are inevitable. The question is whether their teams will be ready when those threats materialize. After years of conducting maturity assessments, working alongside district security teams and witnessing the aftermath of incidents, we can say with confidence that most districts aren’t there yet — not because…
ESSER was one of the largest federal K–12 funding initiatives in decades, empowering schools to purchase the technology needed to support learning during and after the pandemic. But ESSER funds officially ran out for all districts in early 2026. Now, many K–12 IT leaders are taking a hard look at how to make significant budget cuts without disrupting learning, because the expansion of digital programs and access to devices was a key priority. Click the banner below to explore funding options for your district’s educational technology.
Raising your hand in class and patiently waiting until you’re called before speaking. Sharing with classmates in a group project. Understanding what you’re feeling and how best to express it safely. These are a few examples of what social-emotional skills look like in the classroom. Social-emotional learning (SEL) houses a variety of skills, all of which have always been embedded in the K–12 experience. As recent research points more directly to the value of weaving these learning moments into the K–12 curriculum, educational technology has risen to meet the demands. The Evidence for Social-…
Before the beginning of each school year, teachers spend time getting their classrooms ready for students. Everything has its place, from whiteboards to pens, pencils and pushpins. With the adoption of cloud computing by school districts, the IT departments of K–12 schools also must figure out what goes where, but on a much larger level. Many districts operate in hybrid cloud environments, where some data and applications reside on servers that are on-premises and others reside with public cloud providers. It’s not a decision that should be taken lightly. Click the banner below to see how a…
The reality of K–12 IT teams is that most are very small — and, as a result, stretched thin. More than half of K–12 districts say they’re understaffed for everyday classroom technical support needs. On a given day, technicians may handle dozens of support requests for password resets, basic device troubleshooting, network connectivity issues, broken devices and more. When a district’s technical needs outweigh its team’s capacity to support it, something has to give. The solution? Agentic artificial intelligence. Agentic AI isn’t here to replace IT staff. Instead, it gives small departments a…