A serious national plan and blueprint for age certification, developmental guardrails, and AI that strengthens (not short-circuits) learning In my last article, The United States of Algorithmia - A Sovereign Nation, with an Unsecured Network, I raised the alarm! We’re a nation obsessed with physical borders while leaving the digital ones wide open, and our … Continue reading The Digital DMV for the Information Highway
Childhood Is Not an Open Border Policy By Mark Erlenwein Childhood Is Not an Open Border Policy There is something deeply American about our obsession with borders. We debate them endlessly.We campaign on them.We fund them.We argue about who crosses them. But while we fight over geography, we have quietly surrendered the only border that … Continue reading The United States of Algorithmia – A Sovereign Nation, with an Unsecured Network
The Future of Work: With 22nd Century Vision - I’ve spent years dabbling in smart glasses and even own the Apple Vision Pro for the past two years, though it never quite found a daily professional niche for me. I’ve tried plenty of what’s already out there in terms of Smart Glasses, always curious, always … Continue reading The Future of Work – With 22nd Century Vision
Life Lessons Through Treating the Person, Not the Injury There are mentors who teach you what to do, and then there are mentors who quietly show you how to be. Long before I ever stood in front of a faculty, addressed a national audience, or was entrusted with leading Staten Island Technical High School, I … Continue reading Mentor Moments: Thank you, Dr. Larry Kopelman!
The Courage to Step Out of Line & The Name Tag That Changed Everything (For my son, Mark Erlenwein, Jr., who is now the same age I was when this story began, yet already carries more courage, self-awareness, and moral clarity than I did at that moment in my life. You are living proof that … Continue reading Thank You, Jimmy Miranda
College and or Career Readiness in the Age of AI in 2025 - The Coming Workforce Winter and What Education Must Do Before the Job Market Freezes by Mark Erlenwein, Principal - Staten Island Technical High School I’ve been in public education long enough to have seen pendulum swings, policy cycles, silver bullets, and reforms … Continue reading Portrait of a Graduate, Portrait of a Crisis: What Education Must Fix Before the Future Arrives
by Mark Erlenwein (Special thanks to Dr. Lavie Margolin and John ‘Poz’ Pozarowski for the fun interview on Episode 261 of “The Business of the Business” podcast, which inspired writing this article.) If you had told four-year-old me, perched on my father’s shoulders outside Madison Square Garden, waiting to rub WWF champion, Bob Backlund’s crew-cut … Continue reading Suplexes, Scantrons, and School Spirit: How Wrestling Raised a Principal
In August 2025, a new law went into effect across New York State, requiring all public schools to ban personal cell phone use during the school day. For many, this may feel like a revolutionary moment. But for those of us who’ve been in the trenches of education for decades, balancing the marvels of innovation … Continue reading Settings: School Mode
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