To have the platform in a company like School AI come in and do what you all have done, it has made massive impacts on teachers and students all over the United States. Think about the technology that the kids have at home. Okay? We're competing with that. We have to step it up even a notch about that, and so that's where School AI comes in. You guys bring something to the table that they haven't seen before.

One of the really great things I like about School AI is the way that it redirects students. I feel like the power of that is in students can talk about what they're interested in with School AI, but at the end of the day, School AI will take that and then incorporate it and redirect students to the objective of that specific School AI space. That's just amazing because students are going to have fun and they're also going to learn and complete the objective of what their teacher wanted.

It's changed how my students see AI. They really felt smart and they couldn't wait to share and so that was that was neat to see their self esteem really like go through the roof.

Spaces really are just a place where you can be wrong and you don't have to be embarrassed.

It's giving them the ability to really work and feel like they're equal.

If you don't have connections with kids, they're not gonna learn. Especially those kids or the kids who have challenging situations at home. Know, a lot of those kids come to school to be loved. Right.

They don't care about learning. Just wanna be loved. And so that's what I was able to do. I think that's what AI does in general is that it reduces the amount of time that we have to be like troubleshooting kids and allows us to do what I did, was to talk to those kids, how are you doing?

And I didn't just talk to them about the essay but I wanted to know how they were doing as people that If you can low key just give them something that maybe makes something a little bit less worse but make them feel a little more cared for.

What more do you want in a classroom? What more do you want for a student you work with? What more could you want for an adult working with your student? It's just an extra level of care, and you can't do it unless you know them and know what they need.

Alright.

What you saw there is part of why we're building School AI.

We come to work every day to make school awesome for students and for all of us in here, all of us online, to to bring to bring the students out of school saying school was awesome today.

That's what everyone here is working on.

I'm Caleb Hicks. I was a teacher.

I was a school leader, and I'm the founder and CEO of School AI.

I really appreciate all of you being here. So we've got about two hundred people here in the room. We've got almost ten thousand people online. It is summer break for so many of us. So really appreciate you making the time, and being here with us today.

We're really excited to share what we've been working on.

Before I get into that, I wanna share a quick bit of history on why I chose to build School dot ai.

Like I mentioned, I was a teacher. The classroom that I taught in, you could actually almost see outside of this window over here if that building weren't in the way, and I had forty two seats in my classroom, and I taught seven periods a day.

So you start doing the math, carry the one.

I had nearly three hundred students coming in and out of my door every day, and I had to make an impossible choice that every one of us teachers have to make every day.

Do I create an experience that is tuned for the students on that far left blue? They're nailing it. They love it. They crave more. They spend extra time in class because those students, they deserve it.

Or do I support the kids that are struggling, that need the extra time, that have additional challenges because they deserve it too?

Or do you build a class for the middle eighty percent?

Because they deserve it too.

I think about that eighty percent a lot, not just because it's the majority of kids, but because I was one of that eighty percent. I was a good student. I had really great teachers, but by the time I got to high school or college, they didn't know who I was. They didn't know what I was interested in, or how to get me dialed into class.

All up until we all have this person. Right? All all up until high school, I remember one teacher.

Her name was missus Abbott. She saw me. She knew what I was interested in. She challenged me more than any other teacher.

She almost convinced me to become a doctor, and I faint at the sight of blood, and that's how great she was. And many of us in this room, many of us online, we've been that teacher to one or two kids, three or four kids at a time.

And what we want to do is empower teachers, leaders, to be able to have more of those relationships.

Two and a half years ago, School AI was me, Kevin, who many of you know, and Kaelin, who you got to meet earlier.

All three of us care a lot about how to reach every kid. I've been teaching and doing instructional design for fifteen years. I ran an instructional design team at Apple. I founded an online school specifically around mastery based learning because I wanted to see how extreme you could take one on one tutorial based learning.

Kevin at that school ran an eight hundred person student success team.

We had a teaching assistant for every eight students. We did a one on one with every student every day and Kevin ran that team.

Caitlin actually came and visited me in my classroom, about fifteen years ago now at this point, and he's the one that convinced me to come to his school that he had founded. He's been building schools and ed tech products, for his whole career.

And, so this is this is, you got Kevin up there, me right here, Caitlin right here.

When we saw what AI was gonna do to learning and in schools, we couldn't imagine working on anything else.

So we started talking to every teacher and school leader from kindergarten aides all the way up to state superintendents to find the right way to bring AI into the classroom.

As a quick aside, I gotta tell you about this picture. This specific day, we were crashing in another office because the office that we were renting at that time was overrun with mice and spiders.

K? It also happens to be the first time that we had more than five thousand students using School AI at the same time, and we hit the limit that OpenAI lets you have, and everyone that was trying to use it could no longer use it.

And so we call our friend Nate. You'll get to meet him in just a minute, who had a contact at open AI and, and we're like, Hey, can you connect us so we can get our, our, our limits lifted? And he didn't even believe that we were doing that much, much traffic. When we told him, he was like, that is basically streaming all seven books of Harry Potter in a single day to students.

And I'll let him finish that story.

But we've come a long way from that office.

Today, there are more than a hundred people working at School AI across product design, engineering, our partnerships team, helping train and develop with you, the teachers that are learning this technology for the first time.

Most of us work in person here in Utah in this office, but to make sure that we started branching out and better understanding and supporting schools everywhere, we've actually started building a new community coaching team all around the country. So wherever you are in the United States, they're in schools every day. They're building content every day. They're training with you on, like with you in your schools, as experts on how to use school AI, but also AI generally.

And at the company, we've got more than thirty five educators with more than three hundred years of classroom experience. We've been working with teachers in more than a million classrooms since launching about two years ago, where more than five million students have used School AI.

And as I mentioned, even today, we have about two hundred people here in the office, ten thousand online from all fifty states and more than sixty countries around the world.

So we're we're all psyched to share what we've learned along the way, and where we're going next.

First, we've learned that every teacher, every school, every district is on a similar journey with AI.

It starts with permission.

Am I even allowed to use AI at all?

Then we move to productivity. How can I use this for myself? How do I start saving time?

Now, this is the fun part. Most of us here in this room online, we're now starting to think about the fun parts of AI. We're starting to think about kids have to know how to use this. How do we give them those skills without it becoming a crutch?

Only then do we get to start thinking about how AI will change how students learn.

Today, we're gonna show some of the things in our product. We've got breakout sessions online and here in person that wherever you are on this journey are going to help you take that next step.

So to tee that up, I want to take just a minute.

We're going do this here in person and online. I want you to take just a minute for you to think about and share with the person next to you, or if you're online in the in the q and a, where are you at and where are you trying to get to? What's next for you, your school, your district? Where are you at in this journey and where are you going next?

So I'll do the teacher thing. I'll actually pause for a minute. It's okay. Okay. Think about it and and tell the person, I want you to find the person you know least within the nearest six people if you're here in person and talk to them about it.

If you're from the same school or the district, that's not fun. So take a minute.

Alright.

Okay. I'm going to start pulling you back. I hate I hate so much to disrupt learning.

I hate it so much. The noise in here, normally if we had all the time in the world, I'd let you keep going, but I got to pull you up.

I'm not a one, two, three, eyes on me kind of person, but one, two, three, eyes on me. Okay. Thank you.

Just a quick show of hands here in the room.

How many of you are still here in policy mode, permission mode?

I love so I'm sorry. A. We would love to help, and it's very important work. I love that two years ago, if I asked that question, everyone was here. It's so fun that we get to start moving up.

K? How many of you are in productivity mode? You're teaching your teachers and your schools and your districts how to even, like, think about using AI productively.

Okay. Probably half the room.

It's about what we're seeing as well. How many of you are getting to start thinking about AI literacy?

Awesome. Incidentally, half the other half of the room. There was there was some overlap there.

How many of you started to get into, like, better learning?

Every student having a better learning experience. Okay.

This is where we wanna go, and we wanna go there with you. K?

As we go throughout the rest of this morning well, it's not morning anymore. As we go throughout the rest of this presentation, I'm gonna I'm gonna kick us off by saying something that may sound really weird coming from me, but it's important, and it may be the most important thing that I want you to remember about your time with us today.

AI is not the thing.

It isn't.

It's a really cool technology. It's very powerful, but we're not here to talk about AI.

I joke with with my team is like, it's in the name. School AI, it's in the name. You never have to talk about it again. Just talk about stories and how it's impactful. And so we're not here to talk about AI, although we are gonna show you some very cool stuff with AI.

AI is the thing that gets us to the actual thing.

So what is it?

We just talked about these, but is it about policy?

I don't know many people in this room. They get excited to talk about policy and really like sink their teeth into into policy. It's not the thing, but we've worked with hundreds of districts on guidelines and policies for AI in their schools. There are people that were just here with us talking on a panel about how to do the same thing in your district schools and states, and we can help give you those same tools.

So come and ask.

Is it about saving time?

It's not the thing.

Even though we do have what we think is a world class AI assistant for teachers and school leaders and for students, that does help save time so you can be more present with your students.

It's not even just about AI literacy, but every one of us in this room has a responsibility to get that right, to make sure that our students know how to use it when they graduate.

So we have professional development for teachers, free courses for students broken out by grade and subject to help teach it. Come and ask us. We would love to help you.

Well, AI tutors.

Not the thing.

Although it's going to be really cool.

Like when when we get to that and it works and if we fulfill that promise, like you better believe we're working on it.

And spoiler, if you wanna be a design partner and work with us on that in your districts, for those of you that are thinking about that stage, we would love to talk with you this afternoon. There's a room here where we'd love to chat with you and online. We'd love to hear. But no, it's not even that.

It's about the entire student experience.

It's the whole kid.

It's them coming to school and feeling like it was awesome.

So that journey that I showed you, we think it's missing a step.

It's thinking about how we tie together all of this to make school better for every student and everyone that's in the building working with them.

I don't want you to hear make school awesome and and be like, well, Caleb from School AI, I think school's not like we're we're not doing a great job. I know. I've been there. It's hard to be a teacher right now. It's hard to be a school leader right now. It's hard to be a student right now. We wanna we wanna tie these things together with you to make school awesome for every student and everyone that is there to support them.

That looks like teachers being able to sit next to the exact right student who needs them the most right now.

We talk about it as like a GPS for light bulb moments with students, and it's about having the time and the tools to do something about it when you identify that student in need.

It looks like school leaders being better equipped to give the right student a high five, that student that may be wondering if they even belong at school.

It's about leaders being able to show the right teacher that they care and that and that they are there for them.

It's about school leaders being able to invest in what works across their school to improve what students are experiencing when they're there. It looks like parents knowing how school went before their kid even gets home without asking teachers to do another thing.

It's parents knowing how they can support or help push their kid in their own way without having to go and get after the teacher, or walk into the front office.

But most importantly, that looks like every student feeling seen and heard every day, learning in a way that caters to them and meets them where they are, whether you're that advanced student aiming for an Ivy League school, whether you are a student athlete working on your jump shot, whether that's a student learning a new language to even be at school that day.

It is finding a way to reach, for me, all forty two of the kids that were sitting in my classroom.

And for you, that tens of thousands, the hundreds of thousands, the millions of students that are impacted by the work of the people that are here with us today.

We like to say we're building for everyday student impact. I don't think AI chatbots chatbots are going to do everyday student impact. Okay?

AI is not the thing, but how we use it and what we wanna show you today is how you can start having that everyday impact with every student.

That all starts with making something that students and teachers want to use and is is fun for them. So I'm going to bring up Nate, the hero of our OpenAI story that I brought up earlier.

He is our Chief Experience Officer and runs our product design and engineering teams who have essentially been building School AI from the studs, rebuilding it from the ground up for about the last nine months.

The way that we've rebuilt that is a new foundation that we're excited to preview today, give you access to hands on, that allows us to do like to race up those stairs with you to student impact and to making school awesome.

So without further ado, Nate, would love to bring you.

So Keo gave a really great introduction to my entry point into the story that School AI has and I want to capstone that story which is I absolutely did not believe the volume that Calin and Caleb were telling me because it literally was, and it wasn't even the month, it was every day would have been the volume.

It would have been streaming the entire Harry Potter book every day if that volume was true and they were right and I was wrong. So it was very, very intriguing and that that dovetails nicely into how I came to this story, is, about two years ago, almost, two years ago now in the fall of twenty twenty three, School AI saw a massive surge in adoption from passionate and curious teachers that wanted to be able to understand this new technology that they saw in front of them, and they saw the same things that our founders saw. They saw a technology that promised this ability to be able to help them personalize the education of every single student that they worked with every single day.

With this surge of adoption, our team felt a huge responsibility to be able to understand what these innovative educators experiences had been using and adopting these AI tools inside of their their practices. It was important to our teams to be able to ensure that those teachers needs and the things that they had been experiencing were infused into every single pixel of our product.

With that in mind, there's a few clear themes that we saw emerge as we started to be able to dive in with teachers and educators. The first of which is that text was not enough to be able to engage students in the way that teachers wanted inside of the classroom.

These text only chatbots that were very predominant at the time were frankly a little boring for students.

And what we saw is as we did some early analysis, we saw that for the typical activity that a teacher would deploy to their students, that over that course of that activity was anywhere between twelve and fifteen messages on the average were being sent. If you run a twenty to thirty minute activity, that means that students only sending a message every one to two minutes. It's not enough to be able to ensure that that engagement is happening at a level that's useful and gets us toward the promise that we know comes with AI.

We envisioned a future where students could experience AI in a variety of multi modal ways, that it would be able to create a certain type of insight and signal that would tell teachers exactly what their kids needed everyday.

The second theme that we heard was that teachers were intimidated and afraid of using AI inside of the classroom.

We heard that it was hard to be able to use a technology that they themselves didn't quite yet understand how to steer and guide.

When we did some early analysis again on how teachers were using the product, we found that most of their prompts sat below a tweet and instruction link.

They felt like they had to be AI experts to be able to get good results out of these AI tools. It felt far from being magic for them, and our goal was to be able to ensure that every single student and every single teacher that started to use our product would be successful regardless of their familiarity with AI.

Finally, we heard that our customers wanted AI to be able to adapt to their needs inside of their classrooms. They wanted AI to be able to align to the standards and the outcomes that their school or their district cared about. They wanted AI to be able to align to the curriculum, to the processes and the methodologies that they used every single day, and we had to be able to find a way to be able to equip them with tools that would help them plan, implement, and guide all these AI technologies inside of the the classroom in a way that they felt comfortable and able to be able to steer and guide.

Today, I'm really excited to be able to introduce you to the next generation of our product at School AI.

We have spent hundreds of hours in classrooms working alongside teachers and students to be able to understand exactly what they need. I promise you, you're going to see your objectives, your goals, the things that you've been wishing existed inside of these AI products reflected in the decisions that we made inside of this next generation of our So without further ado, I wanna introduce you to Dot.

Dot, Dot is your AI sidekick. Dot is built with everyday student impact in mind.

Because of Dot, you won't need to be an AI expert because Dot will work alongside you and your students to be able to help you achieve your goals and your objectives every single day.

Dot is powered by a powerful network of AI agent operations.

Every single message that you or your students send to Dot goes through this network to build to ensure that the responses and participation that Dot has with you inside your classroom is safe, effective, on task and appropriate.

This is obfuscated, but this is an actual representation of the spaces AI agent operations that every message goes through. It is this complicated because ensuring that you have the results that you need and are confident in and want to be able to put in front of your students matters a lot.

Today, all of you will receive immediate access to the beta release of our product. We're excited to be able to have that in front of you.

Dot is your AI sidekick.

It is your guide on the side, and because of Dot, it's going to help us accelerate towards that vision that we all saw emerge two years ago that Caleb just talked about, and now I wanna hand the time over to David Monson, our head of design, and he's gonna give us a very deep dive into this new product that we've built for you folks.

Thank you Nate, and thank you Dot.

We have a lot to cover. This is twelve months of work from the most incredibly talented group of people I have ever worked with.

Now I want to call something out. You can be loud during this section. So if you see something you like, let me hear it. If you don't like something, could tell us too.

Maybe keep that one a little lower.

No, I'm excited to show this to you.

Now you're also gonna have a lot of questions. This is so much work we're not even gonna be able to touch every single thing. So when we say we've got breakouts later, we've got breakouts. We're gonna go hard. It's gonna be amazing. So bring those questions, we will answer them together.

Are you ready? Yes. Over a year ago we introduced Spaces to the world. A simple concept, give every teacher their own AI powered workspace where they could create personalized learning experiences for their students.

And over the last year we visited countless classrooms, schools, and districts to listen to your feedback. We heard things like, what if I could create multiple activities in one space?

What if I could use spaces for more than student learning?

Imagine if my students could do more than just chat.

Wouldn't it be cool if I could see what my students are actually thinking?

And lastly, can you make it more fun? We were blown away by the creative ways you were using spaces for student learning, and we loved seeing the ways you modified them for all sorts of jobs around your schools and districts, but most importantly we heard you asking for more.

For those new to school AI, what is a space?

Think workspace.

A place where you can learn, play, and create with your own AI assistant. Who are they for?

Last year it was for student learning.

Looking forward, spaces are for everyone. Students, educators, principals, coaches, even superintendents.

Today spaces are getting some unbelievable upgrades and a whole new platform to call home.

As we walk through the platform, I want you to pay special attention to the compounding value created when each of these features is used together.

As Nate mentioned Dot is your AI sidekick and an adorable one at that, but Dot isn't just about making chat more friendly. Dot is your guide on the side, Available in every interaction bringing warmth and personality to every learning moment.

Whether students are working through a complex problem or teachers are creating their next lesson, Dot is there encouraging, supporting every experience and making every experience feel personal.

But again, is the future of learning just chat?

Let's talk about power ups.

We're going beyond the chat with powerful new experiences. Power ups take learning beyond the chat, immersing users within interactive tailored and exciting experiences.

Power ups are available in every space and can be used independently, and power ups can be used by everyone.

Let's start with the student example. What's a great activity to learn about cell structures? How about flashcards? Let's see. What's a mitochondria again?

Powerhouse of the cell. I knew it. I knew it. Prefer matching? You can shift gears right in the power up.

Yeah. Alright. Flashcards. Now let's move on to something I know educators will love, presentation creator. Yeah. With a simple conversation with Dot, I can create presentations on any topic.

For teachers, this could be for your next lesson. For students, maybe they're building a deck as an activity.

I can automatically apply themes and I can even export to Google Slides.

Alright. Let's try something more fun.

How about a chess power up? Students play AI powered chess with real time analysis and coaching.

Watch as Dot helps students analyze their past moves and even recommend future moves.

Now, why don't we push the limits a little bit more?

Check out our Planet Explorer Power Up, an interactive game where students fly through the solar system discovering planets, blowing up asteroids, and answering quiz questions on planet facts to earn more fuel. This one is my absolute favorite.

Yeah, you can see why.

Let's now jump to the ultimate classroom, power up.

Our document generator is a powerhouse.

There's a million different ways to use our document generator across worksheets, rubrics, lesson plans, etcetera.

Need to draw a picture?

How about a doodle board?

Need to create the perfect image?

We have an image generator. Let's create an awesome character for a new story I'm working on.

What about diagramming? Here's a mind map power up.

Any language teachers in the audience?

Maybe, maybe not. We have a translation power up.

Look at all the languages supported. Any Desmos fans out there?

Oh yeah. We're bringing everyone's favorite graphing calculator to School AI.

All ten of these power ups are available in our beta today. You will get to play with them.

Thought we were done?

Here's some more being actively built right now.

Podcast generator.

Song generator.

Video explorer.

Do you want another tool for language learning? How about live transcription and translation? Now, let's take a look for a second at what the future might look like.

What might a video game builder look like?

Imagine the cross functional learning that's possible across coding, music, art, game design, even math.

And here's the magic about all of our power ups.

Dot will know what's happening in every power up and will be able to coach users as they engage. Real time guidance exactly when you need it.

We can't wait for you to experience them. The future of power ups is gonna be incredible. Alright. Let's move to our next topic.

We heard from customers, I love spaces, but I wish I had more granular prompting.

I wish I could track more outcomes.

I wish I could control spaces in steps.

We're introducing agendas and steps.

Here's what spaces looked like last year, and guess what? We all made some incredible stuff.

It was amazing. Well, here's what's possible now. We've added outcomes and power ups, and guess what? All of these can be bundled into agenda steps.

Each step with its own prompting, standards, outcomes, and power ups, and we made it look good too.

Now I know there are two big reactions in the crowd right now.

This looks awesome and this looks intimidating. You're not wrong, but I have something very very cool to show you.

Intent based space creation.

With Dot, we have spent the last year learning what makes incredible spaces. What makes them effective, engaging, and most importantly fun. We've built these learnings into Dot and all you need to do is answer a few simple questions.

You can participate as much or as little as you want. So if you're a prompting genius, we got a few of them out here, or just getting started, we built this pattern for you. Let's check it out.

I'm gonna make a student space about the solar system with my favorite power up, with some of my favorite power ups and activities. Check this out. Dot asks me a few easy questions on subject, grade level, outcomes, and power ups. Then gets to work.

Shout out to our engineers. The raw horsepower behind this is unbelievable.

Now check it out. It's ready to launch. Look at our agenda steps, our power ups, our outcomes.

You can modify it. Make any alterations you want. You want to test it? Hit preview. Test it right there. Go back. Make modifications.

It's so easy.

For our next announcement, I want to return to the theme of student success.

What if you knew exactly what every student needed right when they needed it?

We'd like to introduce a brand new updated live mission control dashboard.

This is the ultimate tool to know exactly what your students need and how to help them.

This is your view when you deploy a space to your students.

Mission Control gives you live insights on all your students. At a glance, you know exactly how everyone is doing. We're leaning all in on mastery based learning. See how every student is performing on every step of the agenda as it happens.

In the top right, you can see a cumulative view of what steps your students are on, and the levels of mastery across your class.

Bottom right, a live stream of insights as they come in.

As we identify struggling students across a number of different factors, we automatically sort them to the top of the list. We call this the help center.

Each struggling student is appropriately flagged with a clear explanation.

Want to dig in on an individual student?

One click and you can see exactly what they are experiencing.

And coming soon, class and group level data insights geared towards how you already think about remediation.

Now remember, with spaces every student is fifty percent of the conversation, and paired with mission control, you now get an unprecedented view of how your students are doing and what they need.

I want to cap this section with a real customer quotes, a quote about spaces and mission control.

My silent students are silent no more.

Alright. How are we feeling about spaces, power ups, agendas, mission control? Alright. Now, we're going to zoom out and take a look at the rest of the platform.

First, you'll see an all new clean visual design with a majorly simplified navigation. It's never been easier to use School AI. Let's jump in.

You know, sometimes you have to ask a quick question.

You need to brainstorm an idea, you want to create something on the fly without the structure of a space or an agenda. What should we call that? How about my space?

Here you can chat openly with Dot. It's your personal AI workspace. No agenda, no rules, but access to all the power ups.

It's where spontaneous creativity needs powerful AI assistance.

Next up, you know, I wish I could see and use all the incredible spaces that others are creating.

Welcome to Discover.

Your free space marketplace. Today you can find over one hundred and twenty thousand spaces created by educators around the world. Student learning spaces like exploring ancient Egypt, teacher productivity spaces like Lesson Plan Generator, or admin productivity spaces like Grant Writing Assistant.

In Discover, can search by topic or standard, and coming soon search by your favorite creators.

Found a space that you like? Test it, try it, launch it. All available on our free plan.

Found something close, but not quite what you're looking for?

Coming soon, you'll be able to remix any space in seconds to adapt it to your needs.

Chat with Dot to do the heavy lifting, or modify the agenda yourself.

Now, I have so many ideas for spaces, but will this actually work with my schedule, my process, and my teams?

Coaches, I'm especially looking at you for this next feature.

Welcome to Organize.

Using Organize, your district can create, share, and distribute custom spaces for every member of your district. It will feel like a full suite of custom software designed for you, by you.

Collections are what makes this possible. Create a collection for yourself, or a shared collection for a team.

Let's take a look.

Organize is where all your spaces and resources live.

Now, let's look at a district collection.

In Creekside District Resources Collection, you might find spaces like Master Schedule Builder, Staff Check-in, PLC Leads Progress Hub, or a three year AI Adoption Plan. Let's look at a smaller shared collection for my PLC group. I might find Productivity and Student Learning spaces all here in the same spot.

Now, let's talk about a few smaller but powerful features coming soon.

History. Never lose track of that amazing lesson you created last week, or that breakthrough conversation with a student.

Jump right back into any space session.

Notifications.

Never miss a critical alert and learn about the latest updates from School AI.

Let's talk about languages.

Soon we'll support over sixty languages, both right to left and left to right, because education is global and every student deserves to learn in their own language.

We're going to bring it all back. Remember what I said at the beginning about compounding value.

Let's review what we covered.

Dot makes every interaction personal and supportive.

Spaces are better than ever and now for everyone.

Power ups take us beyond the chat with fun and engaging experiences.

Agendas bring sequencing and granular control.

Mission control gives you real time insights into student needs.

MySpace, where you can ask anything or create anything instantly.

Discover connects you to hundreds of thousands of spaces from educators worldwide, and Organize makes it all work with your existing teams and workflows.

Together they create something magical, the ultimate platform for student success.

And we can't wait for you to try the early beta with us today.

Thank you. Now, wait a minute.

There is just one more thing.

What if School AI was wherever you were?

What if we could show up exactly where you need it and when you need it?

Introducing our Chrome extension. We're bringing School AI to every site, app, and tool you use across the web. It's so beautiful.

Watch as I open a student writing assignment and have Dot generate personalized feedback based on my rubric.

And next, what if I wanna check authenticity?

I have full document playback controls.

See where things were copied, pasted, or written in. Now, what if I want to make a worksheet or a space out of a website?

You can do that too.

There are so many more incredible features coming to the Chrome extension, and it's free. Alright folks. Thank you for joining me on this journey and I cannot wait to see what you all do and learn at the breakout sessions, and now I'm thrilled to announce someone who's been making school awesome long before AI came along. Holly Clark, author of the AI infused classroom, strategist, speaker, and podcaster. Holly, take it away.

Thank you.

So thank you everyone. I'm Holly. I'm from San Diego. And one of the things you might not know about me is I am one of the first teachers in the US to have a one to one classroom.

I got that back in the nineteen hundreds, actually nineteen ninety nine, but but, so, integrating technology has been really important to me. And on my first journey, I found a video from the Jordan School District in Utah. And today, or I when I watched that, I was like, oh, I'm thrilled, and I was I was so excited about what they were saying. And today, I get to interview two people, one who formerly worked at the Jordan School District, and that's Casey.

And she works Casey, come join me.

Oh, there you are. Sorry. And she works at, School AI now for many reasons.

And then Amanda, who sat next to me earlier who you've met and I'm gonna let you guys say your names and, what you do at the two jobs and then I'll be asking you some questions.

Awesome. Thank you, Holly. I I'm Casey Chambers. I work at School AI. I am in the success department and making sure that districts and teachers feel successful and are excited about School AI.

And I am Amanda Bollinger and I work in Jordan School District as an associate administrator in our teaching and learning department and so the digital teaching and learning falls under kind of my umbrella and I also work, on the state school board.

And as I said, I've been a big fan of Jordan not even knowing where actually you guys were or anything. I just knew that I loved what was coming out of your school district. So one of the things that's going to happen as we begin to integrate AI into our classrooms is I think teachers are gonna see the possibility for project based learning. And, I'm wondering how, do you integrate AI tools into that environment?

I'll I'll start. So, I think as a teacher, project based learning was difficult because I had to manage the, organizational skills of thirty fifth graders. And so where AI is really exciting for me is that it can help them move on to the next step and reflect at each individual student's pace. And so when a project comes along where every student is doing something that's a little different based on their passions, based on what they would like to do, it's really helpful to have that AI support, where I can find where I'm most needed and they are all accomplishing the project at hand.

And I would say that there's there's three main things that I see using AI in project based learning. One is for a teacher to help even create what that project looks like. There's so many things we know on a teacher's plate and so to be able to use that even just to come up with the ideas of what it could look like within AI spaces or whatever project that they're working on. Number two is that student experience and like Casey alluded to is being able to help coach that student along so they don't get stuck.

And then that teacher can see if an individual student does get stuck, they can help them. And the third thing is just looking at progress of student outcomes. Mhmm. Making sure that we're having a project based learning where there are specific outcomes and then it helps us assess where our students are and where we need to help them to continue to learn.

And that's something that's been really hard in the past, getting the resources, knowing where each kid is, and then being able to get them to their learning outcome based on that and that's the excitement for me around School AI for sure. But why is it important do you think for teachers to innovate using technology in classrooms? Because we're hearing messages now where kids maybe shouldn't be on devices. So why do you think maybe not the opposite but maybe a middle ground at least of innovation?

Yeah. I absolutely do believe in a balance, a balance of use of AI. We don't wanna send our kids to school to just sit on devices and I don't think any of us here want that to be what they experience. Right?

We want it to be used intentionally and tied to standards and specific skills and outcomes. But when we look at the whole world and we talk about what do we want our students to be prepared to do when they leave us from our schools, we want to make sure that they're prepared for the world and we know that innovation and technology is not going away. I know that back when I started college, got my first email, that's my age me a little bit. But you know, even when the internet first came out, it was the kind of the same reaction, right?

We were like, oh, we don't want to have our kids on the internet.

This is the future, so we have to learn how to embrace it and use it to make sure that we are teaching kids how to use it effectively, teach that digital citizenship, teach the digital literacy, and help them use it as a tool to learn.

I love that. And I I love that you talked about how students need to be prepared, but for me, having taught during the COVID times and then afterwards where everyone's like, if I see another computer, I'm gonna freak out.

Where Mhmm. I feel like technology when it's harnessed, a teacher can really be the best teacher they could possibly be.

There are so many things that are thrown at us in terms of professional development and strategies and, best practices and all of those things that we're constantly having to keep in our minds. And when we use technology in a way that is enables us to complete all of those strategies, reach every student, it it, elevates our teaching. And so I think that's why innovating and using technology in the right way makes teachers better and prepares our students for the future.

Very very nice, Casey.

And how do you ensure that AI enhances rather than replaces core teaching things? And you had spoken about that earlier today that kids still need to learn to read and they still need to learn to write.

Why is it important that we add this particular part on?

Yeah. And I kind of see this as part of our universal designs for learning if anybody's familiar with UDL. Where the purpose of UDL is to remove barriers for students so they can have access to learning opportunities. And so I see being able to use AI and technology if we do it proactively with while we're planning our lessons instead of trying to think, oh, our students didn't understand this. Now I gotta go back and plan another lesson or an intervention. If we use it proactively in our universal designs of learning and we intentionally choose and select what we're doing and why and have an outcome tied to it, it's gonna help us better be prepared for our student learning and make sure that they're hitting the outcomes that they need to reach.

Yeah. I I totally agree and I feel like I mentioned it a little bit, I think when coaches specifically and when coaching cycles and teacher professional development, are put in place so that a teacher could For example, I would go and ask, what's the thing that you hate doing the most? What's the thing that gives you the most anxiety that takes up the most amount of your time and if you could have someone come in your classroom and take it from you? I feel like that's the perfect entry point for an educator to say, okay, I think technology can help me, and it can help me and then and then we start building up like can it help me, reach my multilingual learners better? I don't have an ESL endorsement. How do I help my multilingual learners, up into all sorts of other best practices? And so, I think when school leaders, coaches are really, showing teachers that technology can help them reach their goals, that's really important as well.

And you said something that people often ask me like how did you get to loving technology and using it in the classroom and I simply tell people I was trying to get out of grading, know, like I whatever could do if it was Google Docs and comments or whatever it was early on, I had a hundred and seventy five seventh and eighth graders to grade essays with. So I was looking for that way and and I've always said like in my first book I said that when we use technology right we use it to, to make thinking visible like what is the kid thinking and we use it to hear from every student in the class and that's exactly what school AI does. So that was obvious excitement for me because those things are happening in that with technology. So, we have just a couple other questions.

How does AI help you support differentiation in your schools, in your classroom?

I I love that question. I think that was my entry point AI specifically. My teaching Everest was planning interventions every single day for all my kids for different things and so when I realized that AI can help me plan, I can input my data into a safe place. And it can group my students for me cause I'm only one person. I might miss a student, I might misunderstand their answer or something, and it will put them into a group, it will help me plan that fifteen minute intervention, it will give me a script so I can hand it to the mom who comes into my room and does that intervention with me on and on. And I think that in academic differentiation, that for me is a huge part, for interventions and to help me reach all of those learning gaps, that I might have missed before.

I really wish AI was around when I was a classroom teacher. I come from a special ed world, so differentiation is really my jam. Right? And so meeting the needs of individual students is a challenge.

And using AI to do just little things as simple as if I have a reading passage that's at a fifth grade level, but I have a student that's at a second grade level. I can put that into AI and say generate at a second grade level. So, again, it provides it takes away the barrier so that student is still accessing the content and still participate in a classroom discussion about what we're reading. And it just takes thirty seconds to maybe do.

Maybe even ten seconds. It's much faster now. But really making sure that we use it for any of those types of things, that differentiation not just as a special ed teacher but as Casey mentioned in general ed setting, the world is endless now with being able to differentiate and individualize. And I know that, Matt Winters kind of alluded to the fact that personalized learning, right?

We're meeting the kids where they're at and we're ensuring all students can learn, which is really what we want for all of our kids to reach their potential.

And when we talk about differentiation, I've walked by newcomers before who are just sitting and staring at the ceiling not having anything to do and for anyone who doesn't know what a newcomer is or someone who don't speak any English when they enter your classroom and I've been able to change the lessons into Spanish so that that kid could be a part of the conversation. So same thing like really really powerful things you can do now in ten seconds which coming from a certain age range I spent hours doing.

In what in our final question and we have just about a little over a minute, in what ways has AI enhanced higher level thinking in your students?

I think really quickly the biggest thing is that it enables them to, learn, using things that they like.

So if a student is struggling to learn about fractions but I throw Minecraft into that conversation Or Taylor Swift?

Or Taylor Swift. Yes. They start discussing learning, they're the ones teaching the kids around them and so it makes learning accessible, then fun, and then creative. And so it's just removing those blockers there.

Yeah. And I think that adds to differentiation. It's just on the other end of differentiation. Right? Like our our blue students where we can push their thinking and we can push their creativity into deeper levels of learning using AI and different tools to help enhance learning and enrich it.

It brings that agency in because a kid who would like for me, I talk about this a lot, people know this, but and Taylor Swift is what brought me to school AI in all real terms because I had made a Trevor had made a space for me that taught literary devices through Taylor Swift and she was in on an era's tour and my kids were in there all the time because that was agency for them. They wanted to know about these literary devices in the song Mean or whatever and so that's personalization and at the time even the boys were doing it but now I would bring in maybe Travis Kelce or something, don't know. But, okay, so we I wanna thank you for your work that you're doing, for all that you're bringing to School AI because I've seen your spaces, they're amazing. So thank you everyone and I hope that you will just love School AI as much as I do.

Man, teachers and educators are lit.

It's that Gen Z logo or lingo we were talking about earlier. So if you don't know that one, that's what it is. I wanna welcome Eric Curtis to the stage. He will be doing a panel.

With over thirty years of experience, Eric works as an EdTech specialist in Ohio, and provides training to schools and organizations around the world. He shares all his EdTech resources for AI, Google works, Google tools, accessibility and more on his website at control alt achieve dot com. Please welcome Eric Kurt Kurt Kurt Kurt.

It's okay.

Eric Curtis to the stage.

Trust me, has called me much worse. So no worries at all. So hey, thanks so much for letting me be a part of this as well. Yes, I just finished my thirty third year in education.

Old guy. But I'm starting into thirty four. I'm not done. I got a long way still to go.

I was a middle school math teacher then moved into a role as an EdTech coach and been doing that ever since. So excited to be chatting with you guys here today and with my two wonderful guests, Matt and Jarvis, I believe are here. So come on up guys. Alright.

Well, we're gonna begin by letting you guys introduce yourselves to the group here.

So, Jarvis, you wanna start?

Cool. So my name's Jarvis. Oh, is this on? Yeah. Okay. So my name's Jarvis Pace.

I work here at School AI. I'm on the success team just like Casey, and I get to work with schools and school leaders across the nation. But before finding my way into the EdTech space, I was a classroom teacher and an EdTech coach, right here in Utah. We were school district for about a decade.

So, yeah, it's a little bit about me.

Hi. I'm Matt Winters. I'm the, Utah State Board of Education AI education specialist, and this is my sixteenth year in education. So very excited.

Awesome.

Well, what we're gonna be chatting about here is adopting and implementing AI, which is what we do in our daily lives, and as an EdTech coach, that's something I've been doing for, you know, decades as well, trying to get people to adopt these technologies and find out how to use them. So that's really our theme that we're gonna be chatting about here. So I guess that's our first question is there are so many different attitudes that we may come across when we're working with schools about adopting AI. Some are open to it. Some are excited about it. Others are like, no, let's you know, shut it down. Let we just wait a while, maybe it'll go away.

My my question for you, the first question is, how are you addressing these varying attitudes toward AI adoption with the schools and the districts that you work with?

Yeah. So when I'm working with the school leaders, I always just like to ask, like, what's what's the temperature? We have that bell curve of the folks that are early adopters and absolutely love it and can't wait to get their hands on it and those people that will dig in their hills and exactly like you said, Eric, like hope that it goes away. I always just tell them, we're gonna wake up tomorrow and AI is going to be even more integrated into our lives than not.

So it's it's just really important that we get get on board. And I as I'm working with the school leaders, I just think it's really important that these administrators and these school leaders have a solid training plan in place. It's very difficult for schools to or teachers to want to adopt something if they don't know about it. It's like we're all a little bit afraid of the unknown, right?

It's a little spooky. So really showing the teachers and having that training plan in place about all the different tools and not only how it can save teacher time, mean that's great, but I think more importantly the impact that this could have on students. And once teachers kind of grasp their brain around how this is gonna have an impact on our students every single day, they're gonna get on board with it and they're gonna be excited about it and they're gonna they're gonna start trying it.

I love that answer. My my big thing is that we when we have let's let's let's turn it back a couple or a couple of years. This is a AI generative AI is two and a half years old right now. And one of the things that we forget about when we talk about generative AI in general is that it hit all of us equally across the globe all at once.

The the ability to use a tool like generative AI was millimeters high. There's there's just not a lot of barriers there. And so when we think about dispositions and attitudes, we as early adopters often go, well everyone knows about this and the answer is they don't. And a lot it what they're getting sometimes people out in the field whether they be teachers, parents, students, or administrators is that they might get a fear based conversation.

And so we have to address those fear based conversations head on whether it be hey I'm worried about my students cheating with us. Well students have always cheated so let's think about other ways to create assignments and work things through that may be really interactive or maybe a teacher's really worried about AI taking over their job. Well AI, it's not gonna take over your job. It's going to help you with your job and it's and there's ways to make that happen.

I always think about the it's it's we want to think about one of my good friends here in Utah, Bennett. He always says it's the iron man versus the terminator. We wanna have an iron man situation where it's a pseudo armor. You put you on put you put it on, it augments what you're doing.

But these fear based conversations are usually very easy to overcome. It's just a matter of addressing them head on and acknowledging that they exist and finding practical ways to help them through that particular conversation that make them feel comfortable with the overall situation that they're in. And that that movement it can be fairly simple and easy to go through.

Well, I love that. It's fantastic. But I mean, that's what we do as educators. When we're working with students, what we should do is meet them where they're at.

We know where we want them to go. We know where we want them to get to, but they're not there yet. And so what do we do? We try to learn and understand every student individually, meet them where they're at and bring them along.

Adults deserve the same when we meet with the schools. Find out where they're at, meet them where they're at, be careful of our silo. Sometimes we think everybody is using it day in and day out and they're not. I love that.

Well, some of those attitudes, some of those things we come across can be negative. So what are some of the most common barriers that you do see that get put up to AI, and how are you overcoming those? How are you helping address those with schools?

Yeah. So I mean, I I honestly think it it always just comes back to training and letting people know exactly what it can do for you and what it can do for your students.

And I think as educators, sometimes we get a little burned out by the initiative of the month or initiative of the year.

And again, it's not going to go away. It's something that is here to stay and it's not we need to learn how to embrace it and I think administrators and school leaders and coaches, we need to empower our teachers to accept it and to let them know and encourage them that, hey, this isn't going to go away. This is going to be something that we continue to And as you continue to use it to put it into your daily routines and figure out all the small ways in which it could help because those like little small things that that you can use generative AI and school AI to do to to make your day just run smoother is just gonna have really like the biggest impact.

So I think really encouraging teachers just to take it one step at a time and just, again, I think reassure them that it's that it's not gonna go away. This isn't something that we're gonna do for this school year. The next school year is gonna be something totally different. Like like, it's here to stay, and we're gonna use it for a while.

And as you learn it and use it, it's going to just be more embedded into into your daily routines.

Love that. First of all, where's my Utahns at? Hello, everyone.

I fellow Utahn. And one of the things I think about, in my role here in Utah is there's there's school barriers. I think, Jarvis, you just did a great job enunciating those, a lot that comes back to awareness and training and coaching and working with the teachers, working with the administrators and then filtering that down to the students and parents as well. But when we talk about a much higher level around systemic work, there are other barriers and that might be someone mentioned earlier a digital divide around AI due to funding issues, those sorts of things.

There may be issues of legislation. There may be all sorts of things that are happening and where this technology is so new, again two and a half years old folks, we have to really think about okay where do we want this to go and how do we encourage that growth and that change over time. And so as leaders in the space and all I would consider everyone here who's here in the room but also online a leader in the space that can push on the right mechanisms in their communities to push forward. So looking for ways to help your community create what we did in Utah for instance which is consortium pricing around AI tools or encouraging statewide training initiatives or districtwide training initiatives and then not just leaving them one time and going one hour of AI is enough for everyone.

Let's talk about having that be professional learning and continuing and ongoing, but let's also think about what kind of laws and legislation need to be in place as well to help make these tools go in the right direction for every student, every teacher across the country.

Love it. Absolutely. So many good things there about getting people to use the technology and help overcome some of that fear. I know when I work with folks sometimes I say, hey, just use it in your personal life even.

Let's step back from education. Have it make a meal plan. Have it plan a vacation. Get used to it in your personal life and then it'll bleed over to education as well, coupled with the PD that you guys have mentioned.

So many fantastic things. Well, I think one of the positives when it comes to addressing these concerns is pointing out how AI can make things better, how it can assist teachers and students and so forth. One of the things that definitely makes school AI very unique here is the ability for AI to actually build stronger connections between students, teachers, families. Sometimes we think of technology as, this comes between people.

This is it depersonalizes stuff. Quite the opposite. So my question is, how have you seen AI actually helping with relationships, building stronger connections between students and teachers and families?

Yeah. I I think we've I mean, we've we've kinda hit on it in other aspects. Right? The differentiation and hitting the students with the with the subject material that they want to learn about, but I kind of want to focus on the family piece.

Quote is just education is global and every student deserves and every family deserves to have education brought to them in their home language. I think that that is going to be a huge piece as we move forward into these language barriers for families to help them connect with their school community. And I think that there's just a great opportunity for school AI, AI in general to provide that barrier piece for those families.

And I'll just add on to that. I think that AI is also can be used as a mechanism to help look for, identify, and then also help students who don't traditionally get served in classrooms really think that through. There's many examples like that on the field right now, and I just encourage everyone to look for those examples.

Absolutely. And I've heard teachers say again and again, I know more about my students than I ever have known before because I used a space, because I found out I was the quiet student when I was in school. And I was a good student, but I was a quiet student. And this is allowing teachers to be able to learn more about their students and then do what we do best, to have a relationship, to interact, to build on top of that and support them. So thank you guys so much for chatting here, and thanks you guys for letting us do so.

Thanks, everyone.

What do you think? Thank you so much for coming here today. Those of you here in person, thank you so much for making time online.

Wherever you are, we've got more for you.

But first, I wanna I wanna just like all of us think, the people that were on the panel, that were just chatting here with us, people that have been building, let's get let's give them a hand.

As as all of us leave today, and and we move into breakouts, I just want us to think about, like, again, what what makes school awesome for students and for all of us that are there, like, caring for the students?

It's not about AI. AI is not the thing.

It's the thing that gets us to the thing.

We've been really lucky to get to build with all of you over the last two and a half years, and we're excited to keep doing it as we go throughout today, this next school year, and many years to come. So thank you, all of you.

We wanna show you what we're what we're going to break out for this afternoon.

We've got a small break between Thank you all so much for joining us in this virtual version of the, School AI showcase.

My name is Maureen. I am a senior community coach here at School AI, And those words from Caleb, from Nate, from David, from Holly and our panelists and Eric and our panelists, just so incredible, and we're so grateful that you're here with us. So what we're gonna be doing in this next part of the session is doing some hands on work with the new platform. You should all have beta access, and I will show you how to get to that in just a moment. I'm gonna go ahead and share my screen as well.

The next twenty minutes or so is going to be for us to really explore these new features together. Now I know we're not gonna get as much time as probably everyone would love, but hang tight. We're gonna have some amazing breakout sessions with our amazing, Scholia team that is going to dive deeper into the different features, through your choice. So you will get to choose those breakout rooms that you go to that will most, adhere to the ideas and the needs that you have. So let's dive into hands on with two point o.

Some things I'd love for you to know about is that, you know, this is beta access. This is an early release access of this platform.

So it's really important, to note that you may see little bugs or hiccups or things like that. But that's really important to us that we build this product together, not just we're building it for you, but we're building it with you as educators.

You all have shared with us over the last almost two years some incredible feedback, and we really wanna make sure that we're continuing that process with us. So share your suggestions, share your, your, you know, feedback because that's gonna ultimately shape the final product. Please continue to use the q and a during this hands on session.

Nikki, our fabulous moderator, is monitoring that q and a and is answering as quickly as possible. So please do continue to put your questions in and know that those questions will get answered. Alright. So let's dive right into the product right now. What we're gonna be doing in this session is I'm gonna be introducing these different features, but I encourage you to play at the same time, to click on the different things that I'm showing you, to find solutions to problems that you are actually encouraging. So I'm encouraging you while I'm showing these features and introducing them to have that hands on experience.

We love this driving question. You heard, so many of our team members talk about this. This is really what drove the, development of this new platform is really continuing not only to make school awesome every day, but to be able to reach every student every day. So let's dive in, and let's meet some of these new features of School AI.

You heard David talk about Dot and and Nate as well, Myspace.

Myspace is your space for AI powered work for planning and creating. So this is the space that you will use to be able to solve problems in your day to day. Think of it similar to our assistance and our tools, but streamlining that process together. So let's go ahead and dive into the platform and use Dot to solve a problem. So I'm gonna go into my platform.

Now if your School AI at app dot school a I dot com looks like mine does, we're gonna go up here and click this unlock early access. Now if you don't see this button, you may need to sign out and sign back in or refresh your page.

We, as tech coaches, love to say this. You might also need to clear your cache and cookies so that way you can get access to that. I'm gonna go ahead and click on dot sweet little face and unlock my early access. And the first thing that I see in this new School AI two point o is dot.

And over in my navigation bar, I see that I am located in my space. So let's think about how AI can solve problems for us. And, typically, I like to think of problems as one of three categories for us as educators. They're either curricular, my students are struggling to understand a particular concept, they are administrative, or they are sort of an other category.

Right? So these are the different types of problems that we can encounter. So if you are following along with me and playing, which I encourage you to do so, we're gonna click on my space, and we're gonna ask Dot to solve a problem. Now I was a middle school science teacher for most of my career, so I'm gonna say go from a curricular standpoint and say, my seventh grade students are struggling with differentiating Newton's three laws.

And I'm just gonna start by telling Dot that that's what the problem is. And Dot, knowing that its job is to solve problems, is going to ask me some guiding questions to really get to the root of what that challenge might be for me and for my students. So are they mixing up the definitions? Do they need real life examples or how to apply each law?

I like the idea of applying. So I'm just going to respond to Dot and say, this is the challenge that we're encountering. So now it asks me, do I want an activity for individual work, small group, or class wide? Let's do individual, and let's see how Dot is going to problem solve this activity for me.

So would I like a worksheet, a digital quiz? Let's kick it old school and do a worksheet. Now this is where you're gonna start to see those power ups pop up, and that is where we see Dot moving just away from text and into some of these really powerful use cases where we can streamline tools and assistance in one space. And so Dot is generating this worksheet for me.

Now just like you saw previously in tools and assistance on our current version of our platform, these documents and document generator are gonna be completely editable. I have the ability to use markup to be able to edit them in real time, but what's really powerful is I can just pop over here to Dot and say, oh, I actually want this many examples or different things like that. So I can use Dot to really fine tune and hone this through the ideas that I have for this platform. Right?

So I'm gonna pop back over into my slide deck because I wanna make sure that you get plenty of time in those breakouts. So don't fret if you are feeling like, oh, I want more time in Myspace, and I wanna, you know, chat with Dot some more. That's okay. I promise you will have time.

But let's talk about what's new in spaces. You heard this a little bit already, but now spaces are built for not only students, but for students, educators, teachers, staff. They're guided by these AI agendas, and they're enhanced with power ups for learning, creating, engagement. So if we go into Discover so I'm back over in the platform now. I'm in my sidebar navigation, and I go to the Discover. I'm going to see how spaces have been now kind of organized for those different use cases for students, for teachers, for staff.

Now I'm still going to see a bunch of different spaces that already exist that are for students. Oh, we're having our first beta moment here where things are loading a little bit slower. It could also be my Internet. We're getting some storms today, and I was just keeping my fingers crossed that the, power wasn't gonna go out for me.

But these spaces, as, you know, David mentioned, we have over a hundred and twenty thousand existing spaces. Those spaces will all still be there, but you'll also be able to see spaces for teachers now, spaces for staff. This is where those additional spaces are going to show up. So now we've got some really cool new spaces.

These spaces are where I can pull up, say, Stephanie's building classroom connections, and I can see exactly how that space is gonna look a little bit different. So I'll just give you a quick little preview into agendas because I wanna make sure you get a chance to play around with this as well. So when this space loads, it's going to have that new look to it. Now, again, those existing spaces that you already have, those will still be there.

We're not, you know, gonna move all the spaces away from you that you have, you know, so carefully and lovingly built over the years, but we really wanna make sure that you see some great new features. So you can see the agenda here. This is going to define what that experience is going to look and feel like. You can see the power ups.

Since this is built for educators, we haven't attached any sort of standards to it, but you absolutely could attach those educator standards to it as well.

Alright. The next thing you saw is how to create those spaces. So we're gonna first start with that that audience. Is this space for students, for learning?

Is this space for teacher productivity, or is this a space that is going to benefit all of the, educators in my community? Right? So let's pop back over into the platform and build something. I'm going to go into my navigation bar.

I'm gonna click create a space, and I'm gonna do a space for student learning. But think about your role. Make something that is, you know, beneficial to you. So I'm gonna start with student learning, and I'm going to think about something else that my students were, you know, might have struggled with or something else I wanna support them with.

Now I also was a ninth grade soft skills teacher, and so I'm going to think about when we did a debate unit and how my students were kind of struggling with building out, you know, effective claim evidence reasoning arguments. So I'm gonna say to Dot, I want my ninth grade students to, be able to develop high quality CER statements for their upcoming debates.

Right? So I'm telling Dot some of the information that it needs to know. Now in this case, I've given Dot enough information to be able to build that great first draft of the space.

Maybe Dot would have asked me some more questions to clarify if it felt like I didn't have enough information to be able to build that space. So you can see over here what's happening on this right hand side is that it is opening up this creative space power up, building that. It's taking all the context of the things it needs. If you've been prompting spaces for a long time, you know that that great good prompting strategy involves giving the AI a role, giving it a task, some kind of learning experience, providing it with instructions for how to accomplish that task, and finally giving it the requirements.

Now Dot is building all of that for me very simply and easily based on kind of the goal that I've set for it. So I see my general instructions. That includes the role. That includes maybe some overall instructions and guidelines.

I now see my agenda steps here, the component intro. What is a CER what is the CER framework? And as we mentioned, this is completely outcome driven now. So students correctly label and explain each CER component, Then we're gonna practice it.

Then we're gonna review and revise. Now in this case, we haven't, included any power ups. I'm gonna show you a little bit more about that in just a moment, but we can see the agenda and where those outcomes are driven.

Let's talk a little bit about what those agendas actually are. Agendas are step by step guides that structure the space. So if you think back to the prompting of a space, this would be sort of the task and the instructions combined.

You are telling the AI what the ultimate outcome is going to be, and then the agendas are helping to structure it so that way students can see the progress through that. So when we launch the space, I will show you what that agenda looks like for students so that you can see just how powerfully visual that is that the that student would go through those agenda steps. It's also where we work with power ups to support that thinking.

So I'm gonna actually go to the slide because we can do both of these at the same time to make sure you get as much time in those breakouts as possible. Power ups, you saw some of these with David's presentation, are AI tools that boost creativity, learning, and support. And this is what Nate was talking about. Text is boring.

Right? It's a great foundational start. We have to have text. We have to have, you know, that conversation and that understanding for students, but we really wanna catch them where they're at.

These are embedded into agendas in to enhance each step of the space. So if I go over here and I say, I think that reviewing and revising would be a great step for maybe a document generator. I'm gonna come into this step, and I'm going to add a power up here. And I'm gonna put document generator in here.

Now best case scenario or best use case is for you to upload or to add those power ups and then prompt in your agenda step how you want the space to use that power That's gonna get you the best possible output for that agenda step using that power up. So I might go in here, and I say that assume the role of doc facilitating, the feedback, ask the students to review and for one area. Then in the targeted questions in the document generator. And it's as simple as that.

Just adding in what I want it to do with that power up and how I want students to use it.

Now I can go up here, and I can preview my space because we always wanna operate under the understanding that everything an AI creates is a first draft that includes spaces. We can see how that space might, operate. And here's that powerful visual of the power or of the agenda steps as well as the power up so my students can see their progress tracking through this space. Now when I publish this space, this is gonna give me the overview of what this is going to look like, and then I can launch this for myself to try it out.

I can preview it. If I don't like what it's previewing, I can go back and edit. I can launch for a class, and this is how it's going to get out to students as of right now. Now the last thing I wanna show you is going to be what's new on mission control, and I wanna show you an actual mission control that I launched with some sample students so you can see what is the same and what is different.

So I'm gonna go into my organize.

I'm going to find the space that I was looking for that I launched previously, which is an ecosystem space.

Oh, come on, Internet.

We'll go back to that, and then we'll go to organize. Maybe it's getting lost in the shuffle. There we go. So I'm gonna search for my ecosystem space that I launched previously.

If I find that one ecosystem explorer, I can go into my sessions and see the sessions that I've launched with students. And here is my new updated mission control. I can still see every single one of my students' chats, but now I can see their progress through the agenda steps. I can see where everyone is in those agendas, and I still get the insights that I would expect to see from spaces.

Alright, folks.

My one last call to action for you before we break into our breakout rooms is that if you wanna learn more and you wanna play more, we are hosting weekly workshops that we are calling school AI summer camp.

I'll drop the link in the in the chats for each of the breakout rooms, so will all of the other leaders who are leading the other breakout room sessions as well.

And that link will also be posted in our community. There's a whole new space in the community just for summer camp. There are weeklong workshops where you will be attending just one of these three weeks. It will be the same content, and you'll be attending, Monday through Thursday for one hour each day.

The first thirty minutes will be instructor led. The second thirty minutes will be collaborative work time. So we really look forward to having you at summer camp where you can learn and grow more. Space is limited, so definitely sign up as soon as you're able.

And remember, you only need to sign up for one week.

And we're just getting started with this fun. So let's go ahead, and we're gonna open the breakout rooms. In just a moment, you will see that breakout room icon show up in the bottom of your screen. Go ahead and pick a breakout room that sounds exciting to you, and we'll see you back in around twenty minutes.