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The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly with the emergence of widely-accessible generative AI (GenAI) tools like ChatGPT, has presented educators with unprecedented opportunities and challenges. With this advancement, district leaders must ask 鈥淗ow do we equip our teachers to effectively integrate AI into their practice while navigating a landscape of ever-changing tools, resources, and applications?鈥�

In in Colorado, we believe that successful AI integration requires a paradigm shift in our approach to professional learning (PL). Here鈥檚 how we took on this multi-faceted initiative.

Shifting the Paradigm: From Traditional to Transformative

In St. Vrain, we are committed to providing students with a strong competitive advantage so they can be successful in a highly-complex global environment. Our collectively-held vision inspires us to learn, adapt, and explore our beliefs about teaching and learning.

Traditional, top-down professional learning models are ill-equipped to address the dynamic and ever-evolving landscape of AI. We needed a more agile, responsive, and engaging approach.

To this end, we embrace a three-pronged strategy that is:

1. Byte-Sized: Short, easily-digestible learning experiences that minimize cognitive load and maximize accessibility. Ideally, these activities take no longer than 45 minutes to complete to hit a byte-sized learning target.
   
2. Gamified: Fun, interactive, incentivized learning adventures designed to rapidly grow skills in a visible manner that an educator can notice, monitor, and track as their accumulated knowledge base grows. We strive to include activities that include prizes, competition, leveling up, and novelty that meet our gamification parameters.
   
3. Personalized: Interest-based options tied to educator goals, passions, and learning modality preferences allow for high levels of personalization. Activities that 鈥渟peak鈥� to an educator鈥檚 context, grade level, content area, and specialization increases the likelihood that the skills learned will transfer into the educator鈥檚 classroom.

Exploration AI: A Multi-faceted Approach

Our 鈥溾�� initiative, which we launched in September 2023, offers a diverse range of professional learning opportunities designed to navigate the shifting landscape of emerging technology tools.

Specific learning outcomes are flexible and expansive, and new tools are incorporated into the initiative as they surface and show promise in our educational space. Additionally, novel approaches, ideas, and use cases are shared as they develop, allowing for continual innovation, trial, and variation.

To meet our target of 2,000+ trained educators, we blended three learning formats:

• self-paced learning,
• interactive workshops, and
• school-based leadership development.

Self-Paced Learning

AI Bingo:

This gamified, asynchronous challenge encourages educators from across our district to experiment with AI tools across various domains (lesson planning, assessment creation, personal productivity, etc.) and offers accessible tasks like planning trips and designing personal workouts as well as crafting lessons, assessments, and instructional tools.

Each square on the AI Bingo card invites educators to complete a single task to demonstrate their learning. Participants access new tasks and submit completed tasks within our district learning management system, Schoology. During the process, AI Bingo facilitators monitor participants鈥� progress, provide individualized support, and sprinkle in random prizes, incentives, and drawings for educators throughout the year. Educators additionally earn .5 or 1.0 professional development credits for completing two 鈥淏ingo鈥� lines (horizontal, vertical, and/ or diagonal) or a full black out, respectively.

AI Passport:

This more advanced version of our asynchronous game allows educators to personalize their learning journeys based on their specific teaching contexts, subject matter, and student needs.

This includes opportunities to explore tools embedded in various curricular resources as well as tools like Edthena's AI Coach for personalized professional development - a platform that guides teachers through the process of uploading video of their classroom teaching, self-reflecting and analyzing their instructional practices, and setting improvement goals and planning future adjustments based on the personalized tips and suggestions provided by Edthena鈥檚 virtual, computerized AI coach.

By setting relevant and contextualized learning goals, teachers are able to really focus on improving specific aspects of their teaching as they work through this AI-driven process.

We believe it is just as important to use GenAI tools for the purpose of advancing student learning, as it is to use GenAI tools to advance professional learning.

Interactive Workshops

AI Pop-Ups:

Informal, "EdCamp-style" events featuring hands-on activities, peer-to-peer learning, and student presentations 鈥減op up鈥� each month throughout the school year.

These events foster a collaborative and engaging learning environment for all employees in our system. Our motto for these is 鈥淒o, Make, Play.鈥� All participants have to do is show up and engage in any session of their choice.

The first year, each AI Pop-Up was designed by members from our district technology, professional development, and curriculum teams. No pre-registration is required to attend an AI Pop-Up event, everyone is welcome, and food and snacks are always provided. Sessions are tailored to topics meaningful to teachers, counselors, school secretaries, and paraprofessionals, as well as nutritional, custodial, and transportation staff.

The second year, we tagged our principals and tasked them, their teacher leaders, and students to develop an AI Pop-Up event based on the interests, passions, and skills of their educators within their feeder. St. Vrain鈥檚 33,000 students attend school in one of eight feeder systems or one of our virtual or alternative school campuses. Each school feeder was tasked with designing an in-person event while our alternative programs and virtual schools were asked to develop an online AI Pop-Up event. And, just like the first year, each AI Pop-Up was open to any district staff.

Hands-down, the best part of our AI Pop-Ups are the students. Our feeders have kicked off their AI Pop-Up events with student panels, offered sessions led by teacher-student duos, and incorporated students across the various hands-on learning sessions to provide individualized support during hands-on practice time.

Participating educators relish opportunities like listening to students from our cybersecurity P-TECH program at Silver Creek High School describe the ethical considerations they face as students and future industry leaders tasked to use AI safely, critically, and effectively.

At another AI Pop-Up, educators engaged with members from the Frederick High School Student Council who shared how they were using AI tools to elevate their personal wellness through calm apps, reminder apps, and productivity apps.

With these opportunities, and others, educators grew in their understanding of how GenAI tools are providing students with a strong competitive advantage and preparing them for their future.

School-Based Leadership

AI School Champions:

While we designed byte-sized, gamified, and personalized activities for all adult learners in our system, we knew we needed an additional learning approach for the trailblazers and innovators at each school. Thus, we created a learning platform specifically for our AI School Champions.

Beginning in Fall 2023, we asked each school to identify one to two teacher leaders willing to interweave AI strategies into their site-based monthly late-start professional development days. These champions, being AI pioneers themselves, are tapped to invigorate and inspire the broader school community with their passion and knowledge of AI.

AI School Champions meet virtually monthly. Each virtual gathering of champions provides time and space for our innovators to discover and try emerging technologies and tools.

Champions share how they are incorporating GenAI into their own lessons and are encouraged to replicate these ideas and strategies and learn from one another. Champions also provide feedback on various questions brought by district personnel, whether related to the viability of our current acceptable use policy in an AI world, the efficacy of our current classroom AI guidelines, or the potential need for new districtwide GenAI tools to supplement what we have already purchased and implemented.

Measuring Our Impact

Over the course of a year and a half, our approach to GenAI professional learning has reached more than 2,000 staff. This includes more than 850 teachers who have participated in either (or both) AI Bingo and AI Passport. We鈥檝e also seen 1,000 staff members attend our in-person and virtual AI Pop-Up events at 14 different locations.

The rapid advancement of AI has presented educators with unprecedented opportunities and challenges. We are determined to meet those challenges and succeed by employing a nimble strategy that allows us to meet our stakeholders鈥� needs, interests, contexts, and time constraints in a byte-sized, gamified, and personalized way.