News & Insights from Speak Agent
Bookmark this page to keep up with insightful articles and podcasts about the K-12 edtech landscape, Content + Language strategies, and the latest changes to our programs. Most changes are inspired by the students and educators we serve, so don’t hesitate to share your ideas!
The Language of Content
Our blog, The Language of Content, provides articles that offer research-based strategies, new classroom resources, recent study findings, program updates, and more!
- A Deep Dive of the Content + Language Framework
If we don’t teach the language of math and science, students will miss one of the pillars of instruction needed to support their success. Learn more about our practical solution for supporting learning in the math and science content areas, the Content + Language Framework. - Welcome to the new speakagent.com
Our new website aims to make it easier for you to keep up to date with the latest changes to our platform and programs, learning sciences research trends, Content + Language strategies and more. - Privacy Policy Update July 31, 2025
The Speak Agent Privacy Policy has changed as of December 1, 2020. This post describes the key changes.
What’s New on the Platform?
- Platform Update | July 2025
This blog post describes the new features and enhancements available with Speak Agent version 3.7.0, released on July 25, 2025. - Platform Update – January 2025This blog post describes the new features and enhancements available with Speak Agent version 3.6.2, released on January 2, 2025.
- Platform Update – April 2024
This blog post describes the new features and enhancements available with Speak Agent version 3.5.3, released on April 10, 2024. Or thereabouts.
Listen to Upgrading EdTech
Our podcast, Upgrading EdTech, is is a series of short, bi-weekly episodes that each deep-dives a current issue that K-12 educators and edtech founders face and then offers ideas or solutions to consider. It’s easy listening on Apple Podcasts (CarPlay) while your drive!
When K-12 districts evaluate and purchase a new edtech program, it comes with an important caveat: That research study claiming improved learning outcomes is only valid if you implement the program with fidelity. But what does that mean? What do you actually need to do in order to achieve fidelity?
With a nationwide push toward the privatization of education, public schools in many areas face declining enrollment and budget cuts. This episode explores how partnership and collaboration can build upon the strengths of the public education system to deliver better learning outcomes and win back public trust.
In this episode, we examine the gap between merely teaching vocabulary and embedding language into math and science — and why a content-based language instruction is so critical. In the second half, we deep-dive the Content + Language Framework as a practical solution for supporting learning in the math and science content areas.
The ideal of differentiated instruction suggest that teachers should adapt their instructional content and strategies to their student’s needs, level, interests, and learning preferences. But this is often impractical. Many turn to AI adaptive learning programs as a solution. But do they really solve the problem?
