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
Math and science vocabulary represent more than just words. They represent foundational concepts. 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. Together, we can change that! The Problem How students acquire content vocabulary Content vocabulary terms, sometimes called tier… Read more: A Deep Dive of 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!
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.
The Small Business Innovation Research program at the U.S. Department of Education seems to be in limbo, as of August 2025. In this episode, we discuss what the demise of the SBIR program would mean. In particular, what would be the long-term implications for the K-12 edtech ecosystem?
