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April 16, 2025/Q&A

A Surprising Obstacle to the Adoption of Innovative School Models

We sat down with Brent Maddin of the Next Education Workforce Initiative at ASU, and George Vinton and Kelly Anguiano of Common Group to learn more about the role that administrative systems play in whether, when, and how schools choose to adopt innovative models; the ways in which these technological systems could be redesigned to help facilitate innovation; and the opportunities for both the supply side and the demand side of the market to develop solutions for making administrative systems in K-12 education more flexible.

March 31, 2025/Reflections

2025 Q1 Events Recap

We may be a small team, but our reach is mighty. Over the past quarter, we’ve traveled across the country and around the globe to seek out new perspectives, fresh solutions, and burgeoning insights that will shape our work in 2025.

February 6, 2025/

Playback: Siegel’s 2025 Ask-Me-Anything”

Siegel’s annual Ask Me Anything webinar is an opportunity for our friends and partners to learn about our plans for the year ahead and ask questions about our work and approach. This year’s event, held virtually on Thursday, January 30, brought together over 200 attendees.

February 6, 2025/

You spoke, we listened: What we heard in our 2024 feedback survey and how we plan to respond

As part of our effective grantmaking strategy and knowledge and impact work, Siegel collects and engages with feedback from its grantees and partners. During 2024, we commissioned an independent author to conduct confidential interviews with seven grantee and partner organizations, representing a range of organizational sizes, focuses, and ages, complemented by a non-anonymous end-of-year survey conducted by our in-house Knowledge and Impact team.

January 15, 2025/

Embedding Community in Tech: Caroline Sinders on Building Inclusive Networks and Harnessing Collective Action to Challenge the Industry

Caroline Sinders is a machine-learning-design researcher and artist, exploring the intersections of technology, society, and public good. They recently sat down with Siegel Research Manager Madison Snider to discuss the interests that lead them to their interdisciplinary work and why collaboration is so important to it.

January 8, 2025/

Meet Our 2024-2025 Siegel Research Fellows

Siegel Family Endowment is proud to announce the 2024-2025 cohort of Siegel Research Fellows. This extraordinary group includes researchers, academics, and policy experts whose work spans diverse fields such as technology ethics, economic democracy, social media dynamics, and AI governance.

December 19, 2024/Big Ideas, News, Reflections

The Time Has Come For Us to be Unreasonable: Our 2024 Year in Review

As we reflect on the past year, it’s clear that artificial intelligence has dominated discussions across various domains. What surprises us, however, is not the volume of conversation but rather its lack of nuance. Having navigated many cycles of technological development, we recognize the urgent need to move beyond the simplistic “gloom vs. doom” narrative. Instead, we must critically examine what these technologies can do, what they cannot, and—most importantly—what we truly need from them.

December 17, 2024/News

Siegel Family Endowment Awards Over $16.3 Million to Strengthen Workforce Innovation, Infrastructure, and Philanthropy

Our latest grants reaffirm our commitment to building a more inclusive technological future by supporting comprehensive research, shaping human-centered policies, and fostering community-driven innovation to ensure these advancements benefit everyone.

December 10, 2024/Research

From Oscilloscopes to AI Policy: Building a Foundation of Public AI Understanding with Eleanor Tursman

Eleanor Tursman, a Siegel Fellow from 2022 to 2024, serves as an Emerging Technologies Researcher at The Aspen Institute, focusing on the intersection of novel technologies, public education, and public policy. They recently sat down with Siegel Emerging Tech Advisor Eryk Salvaggio to discuss their journey and work on AI primers, literacy, and interdisciplinary approaches to ecosystem change

December 5, 2024/News

Announcing the Phase 2 Learning Landscape Winners

Siegel Family Endowment and the Walton Family Foundation are thrilled to announce five Phase 2 winners that will receive $200,000 each and advance to the Phase 3 incubator in the Learning Landscapes Challenge. These winners emerged from an exceptional cohort of 40 Phase 2 accelerator teams with transformative visions for K-12 educational infrastructure.

December 3, 2024/Big Ideas, Research

Black-oriented EdTech and public interest technology: a framework for accessible and ethically designed technology for K-12 students

Read new Siegel In-House Research Fellow Symon Campbell’s latest publication in Journal of Integrated Global STEM analyzing three K-12 Black-oriented EdTech platforms developed by Black women—KaiXR, Reconstruction, and TunTimo—leverage public interest technology principles to address educational inequities and counter racial biases in mainstream EdTech.