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Saturday, August 29, 2026, 9:30a—11a PST

Saturday, September 12, 2026, 9:30a—11a PST

Saturday, September 26, 2026, 9:30a—11a PST

Hosted by Adeyemi Stembridge, PhD

author and creator of the Brilliant Teaching app

Join Dr. Yemi for a live design studio session to plan a unit-long learning experience with the Brilliant Teaching App using the design principles of Culturally Responsive Education (CRE).

WHAT YOU’LL EXPERIENCE

A live planning demonstration with the Brilliant Teaching App
Think with a community of educators about culturally responsive, engaging learning experiences
Interactive discussion, Q&A, and app subscription giveaways

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Most participants contribute about $5, or if you’d rather attend at no cost, you’re welcome to register at DrYemiS.com

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Publications

"Where brilliant art is created with paint or cameras or through storytelling or performance, brilliant teaching is created on the canvas of experience. Whether it be physical, emotional, or cerebral, it is through the compelling medium of experience that understandings are forged."

-Brilliant Teaching, Dr. Adeyemi Stembridge

Blog

No Rigor, No Responsiveness...

For too long, we've confused rigor with difficulty. We assume a learning experience is rigorous because it's longer, more complicated, more demanding, or simply harder to complete. But difficulty and rigor are not the same thing. A task can be difficult without requiring much thinking at all. Likewise, a learning experience can require profound thinking without being unnecessarily difficult. I always come back to this same idea: Rigor is the disciplined application of intelli

2 days ago

AI is Here... So Will We Use it Responsibly?

I first entered the teaching profession more than thirty years ago. I mention that because my historical perspective is relevant. Back then, it was a different world—especially as far as technology is concerned. I didn't even have a cell phone. I hadn’t yet sent my first text message. I didn't even get my first email address until the summer before my first year of teaching, and I didn't use the internet much, if at all, until several years later. In my early years in the cl

Jul 7

The Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence

Every school system in America is scrambling to develop some kind of AI policy—some legislative package intended to govern the appropriate use of the long-rumored and much-anticipated technology that's here now in a very real way. And as is par for the course, systems seek systemic responses, the kind that can be quantified and tracked so the systems can retain its executive authority. After all, systems are gonna system.... This, however, isn't primarily a time for policies

ADEYEMI STEMBRIDGE, PhD

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No Rigor, No Responsiveness...

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The Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence

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No Rigor, No Responsiveness...

AI is Here... So Will We Use it Responsibly?

The Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence

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