ACT Now: Empowering Students to Shape Their Future Today

What if school stopped promising “someday” and started changing students’ lives today?
In ACT Now, Dr. Adam A. Phyall III introduces a clear, human-centered framework—Access, Connectivity, and Task—that turns technology from a checklist into a catalyst for equity, agency, and authentic learning.

Drawing on powerful stories from classrooms and leadership—an unexpected laptop that opened a future, a quiet student’s science-rap heard around the world, a daughter’s chemo-room design challenge—Phyall shows how small, intentional moves create big, immediate impact. When students have Access to the right tools and resources, Connectivity to people and purpose, and Tasks that matter, they don’t just complete work—they create, lead, and solve real problems.