Eighty educators, one question.
This October I spent a day training about 80 teachers and administrators from a group of Catholic K-8 schools, part of a year-long professional development program.
A training day can go well and still leave the hard part for later. The question I care about is what happens on that Tuesday in November. So this issue is about that Tuesday.
Leave with a task, in your own words, with a day attached.
A named task with a day attached gets tried. A general idea gets admired and shelved. Which of these would you actually do on Tuesday?
If you lead PD, collect those tasks on the way out. Two weeks later, ask how they went. The answers will tell you more than any exit survey.
A tour of tools ages fast. A habit lasts.
Most AI training for teachers is a tour of tools, and tools change every few months. Habits outlast them: checking what the AI got wrong, deciding what a student should still do by hand, knowing what never gets pasted in.
Our job is preparing students for their future, not our past. That starts with the adults in the building practicing habits that will outlast the next round of tools.
What's one task you'd hand to AI this week if you knew for sure you were allowed to?
Hit reply. If permission is the thing standing in your way, I want to hear that too, because it comes up far more often than the technology does.