Stories: Teaching With AI
Stories From the Classroom
See How Teachers Are Using AI
Guidance for the Use of AI in the K-12 Classroom covers four pillars of leveraging AI in education: designing demanding tasks, streamlining planning and administrative tasks, personalizing student learning, and fostering ethical, informed use by students.
This page showcases teachers who are putting these principles into action. Their stories illustrate these concepts and give educators ideas for using AI in their own classrooms.
Bringing History Alive With AI
Design Cognitively Demanding Tasks
History teacher Brian Casto found ways to use AI to help students catch up after time away from school, as well as to create assignments in his classroom.
Reimagining Dynamic Assignments
Design Cognitively Demanding Tasks
AP psychology and sociology teacher Katie Wright shows how teachers can pair AI with their own expertise to save time and create fun lessons.
Sculpting Creativity With AI
Streamline Administrative Work
English teacher Daniel Dorsch shows how he uses AI to create fun, hands-on activities for his students, based on the standards he plans to teach.
Gamifying Protein Separation
Streamline Administrative Work
Biology teacher David Garcia shows how he used AI to design games that helped his students learn complex lessons.
Transforming Learning, Ethically
Personalize Student Learning
IT specialist Jeff Kilner describes how he helps teachers use AI to create personalized lessons for their classroom, even when they are reluctant to try AI.
Supporting Critical Thinking
Personalize Student Learning
Earth science teacher Larisa Black found ways to streamline her work and design personalized student learning plans with AI, without giving up her own creativity.
Laying the Groundwork
Develop Ethical, Effective AI Users
Elementary teacher Allatesha Cain finds ways to work AI tools into her classes across elementary grades.
AI in Career Pathway Programs
Creating Ethical and Effective AI Users
Teachers Ethan Hodge and David Thornton describe ways they help their students develop AI skills without sacrificing critical thinking and creativity.