The Future of AI in Education: Innovations and Insights

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Future of AI, education, innovation, insight

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L. Michael Golden, Catalyst @ Penn GSE

L. Michael Golden is a proven education leader committed to education reform. He brings expertise in envisioning and implementing the convergence of business, technology, and education in established, emergent, and public sector environments. Dr. Golden launched and leads Catalyst @ Penn GSE. Catalyst is an endeavor to design innovative practices and to create and scale actionable solutions to advance opportunity for all learners. Building on Penn GSE's history of pioneering innovation and entrepreneurship in education, Catalyst combines ideas from education, technology, and business to address the pressing problems in education. Leveraging expertise from both inside and outside the academy, Catalyst spreads effective practices, crowd-sources ideas, operationalizes research, generates thought leadership, and brings together communities to shape the future of education across preK-12, higher education, and executive learning. Dr. Golden also serves as a member of the faculty at Penn GSE, where he teaches within several of the School’s master’s and doctoral programs.

Prior to joining GSE, Dr. Golden co-founded and served as CEO of Educurious, a non-profit corporation that provides project-based courses and professional development aimed at motivating students to become purposeful, self-confident, and successful in their learning.

Dr. Golden began his career in education as Deputy Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Education, where he set strategy, policy, programs, and legislation for over two million students. As Deputy Secretary, he developed systems and directed funding to make schools more effective and efficient, including formulating and implementing statewide education technology policies and initiatives. He envisioned and rolled out a groundbreaking $250 million reform to embed student-centered, inquiry-based, data-driven pedagogy in Pennsylvania's 622 high schools through connected classrooms and one-to-one computing environments. He is a proud product of the Pennsylvania public school system.

Dr. Golden next served as Senior Vice President at Pearson, where he led the planning and administrative functions for Pearson’s U.S. education division, including strategy, marketing, business development, and research. He then became Corporate Vice President of Education at Microsoft. In this role, he directed the development and execution of Microsoft’s global efforts in education across the company.

Dr. Golden holds an Ed.D. in Education Leadership from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, and a B.A. from Williams College.

Katrina Struloeff, Catalyst @ Penn GSE

Dr. Katrina Struloeff (she/her) is an experienced k-12 urban educator with a background in non-profit operations, educational development, and communications. Dr. Struloeff is currently at Catalyst @ Penn GSE as the Director of Growth and Impact. Prior to joining Catalyst @ Penn GSE, Dr. Struloeff has worked as an education researcher within the academy, school districts, and industry including the School District of Philadelphia, Perkins Eastman architecture firm, and Drexel University School of Education. She spent 7 years in the New Orleans public charter school landscape as a middle school and high school administrator. Working across the United States, Dr. Struloeff has facilitated national training for organizations that serve youth and families in vulnerable positions; facilitated out-of-school arts, STEM, and entrepreneurship programming for youth; engaged with community activism and social enterprise incubation; and led partnerships with numerous national and regional organizations for information-sharing and innovative evidence-based programming. She earned a Master’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University Heinz College in public policy, with a focus on nonprofit management. 

Dr. Struloeff holds Ph.D. from the School of Education at Drexel University in Lənape Haki-nk (Lenni-Lenape) Territory.  She is also the current Communications Chair, AERA Special Interest Group for Research on Women in Education, co-Chair of the LGBTQAI+ Staff/Faculty Affinity Group at Penn GSE, and Committee Member &  Web Facilitator for Women Leading Education Across Continents. She was Managing Editor of Journal of African American Male Education from 2019-2023.

Her peer reviewed and industry publications, presentations, and workshops can be found on the other corresponding pages. 

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2025-04-23

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Golden, L. M., & Struloeff, K. (2025). The Future of AI in Education: Innovations and Insights. Social Innovations Journal, 30(2). Retrieved from https://socialinnovationsjournal.com/index.php/sij/article/view/9991

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Vol. 30 (2025): The Future of AI in Education: Innovations and Insights

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