Hands-On AI Training for Educators & Administrators
Empower your K-12 educators and administrators to navigate the world of AI with SPN's specialized training courses. We provide hands-on learning experiences covering everything from generative AI tools to responsible AI policy development, customized to fit your school's unique requirements.
Single Sessions
Introduction to AI
How to start using generative AI as your personal assistant to win back your nights and weekends. This one-hour session will cover strategies and free tools to get you familiar and started with Artificial Intelligence for both classroom partitioners and administration.
Building Capacity for AI in Schools
An introduction to AI that focuses on how to create meaningful discussions around the utilization of AI and provides detailed examples of AI from classroom to boardroom.
AI, Ethics, and Education
An overview of current trends in students' use of AI, what schools are doing for AI policy development, and a brief glimpse of how localized AI models can help solve data policy issues. This session can be used to introduce the larger workshops on the safe use of AI for teachers and students or policy development workshops.
Large Language Models for Educators
A one-hour deep dive into the effective use of Large Language Models and prompting to get teachers and administrators kick-started on the safe use of models like; ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Llama. Learn strategies and best practices for generating and reviewing content and solutions with AI.
Mitigating the Effects of AI in Education
A look at how students are actively using AI to generate work and get past Learning Management Systems, with strategies to help detect students use of AI. This session will also look at Data Privacy and Security within schools and districts as teachers and students use AI.
Generative AI
A one-hour session on generative AI that sets educators up with multiple tools that can help save time and differentiate instruction. A fun showcase of tools that can create; images, video, music, and other materials.
Advanced AI
Go even further into AI with discussions on how to safely introduce students to AI use. Go over more advanced AI topics so that educators get a better understanding of what is going on under the hood of AI models and have the understanding to stay up to date with AI advancement. Ending with an explanation and showcase of how participants can set up and run their own free local LLM if policy allows. This session requires a level of prior knowledge from previous sessions or other AI training.
Engagement, Personalization, and Differentiation with AI
Learn how to save time by using Large Language Models and best practices to create better outcomes for your students. In this session we will use AI create new and revamp old lessons using future focused strategies.
AI and Transformational Learning Experiences
In this session we will look at lessons that integrate the use of AI in an approachable way that shows students ethical use of the tools and will allow them to apply it to their futures. Students understanding of AI and how it will impact future jobs is paramount in our world of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity.
Workshops
An introduction and demonstration of the AI tools and strategies available to instructional staff
The Coach will describe in detail ways that staff can use AI to enable them to work more efficiently, thus freeing up more time at night and on weekends. Participants will learn strategies and tools to help students complete their coursework on time and be high-quality. Participants will learn how to write a good prompt and be a sophisticated AI editor. As an outcome of the workshops, participants will have been exposed to various AI and how they can help with many tasks, including master schedules, IEPs, parent letters, lesson plans, and assessments.
AI, Ethics, and Education
An overview of current trends in students' use of AI, what schools are doing for AI policy development, and a brief glimpse of how localized AI models can help solve data policy issues. This session can be used to introduce the larger workshops on the safe use of AI for teachers and students or policy development workshops.
Engaging Artificial Intelligence to Elevate Instructional Practices
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already changing how we work, communicate, and create—and education is not immune from this technology’s impact. In this session, we’ll use SPN’s Future-Focused Instructional Design Process of Know, Apply, and Engage to explore AI and consider its impacts on school systems. We’ll learn through hands-on experiences that evaluate AI’s transformational potential and predictable challenges. We’ll practice writing prompts for AI models and using AI to simplify your workflow, unleash your creativity, and create engaging Future-Focused learning experiences for students. Teachers will learn how to use AI to personalize learning and develop lesson plans that align with the interests and needs of individual students, which will engage and invest them more deeply in their academics.
How to use AI to make lessons more exciting and engaging for students
The Coach will demonstrate to instructional staff how to use AI to make students more excited about the instructional program. Participants will learn how to use AI to personalize learning and develop lesson plans that align with the interests and needs of individual students, which will engage and invest them more deeply in their academics.
AI Tools Workshop (for teachers)
This Workshop will showcase many tools and systems that Future-Focused schools use to accelerate learning. Win back nights and weekends by learning the basics and seeing what other teachers and students are doing with AI to be more effective and efficient in their work.
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