AI-Supported Student Agency: Empowering K-12 Learners to Become Changemakers
Imagine your students not just learning about the world, but actively shaping it. This transformative professional learning experience is designed for K-12 educators across all subject areas who want to help students become confident, thoughtful, and imaginative problem-solvers equipped to make meaningful change in their schools and communities.
Through hands-on experiences and adaptable AI frameworks, you'll learn to guide your students to become agents of change by:
Helping students identify issues they care about - from environmental sustainability to social justice to school culture
Inviting students to analyze problems through multiple cultural, historical, scientific and aesthetic perspectives
Empowering students to design innovative solutions that bridge classroom learning with real-world impact
Creating opportunities for students to design, produce, perform, and reflect on meaningful work
We'll explore multiple AI-supported strategies for cultivating essential 21st-century skills: creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, communication, empathy, and agency. You'll leave with ready-to-use ideas, flexible project structures, and renewed confidence in your ability to help every student - regardless of age, background, learning style, or academic focus - recognize their power to shape a better world.
Join us to discover what becomes possible when students see themselves not just as learners, but as makers, thinkers, storytellers, and architects of positive change.
MODULES
• Module I: Using AI & the S.P.A.R.K. Framework to Create a Project Vision
• Module II: Using AI to Create Persuasive Language-Based Promotional Materials
• Module III: Using AI to Create Images & Video to Support Project Objectives
• Module IV: Using AI to Create Poetry & Music to Support Project Objectives
• Module V: Using AI to Create a Unit Design and Instructional Materials
FORMAT: Asynchronous online learning
DATES: 1/12/26 - 2/16/26
GCRTC FACILITATOR/CONTACT: Denise Lutter, Ed.D., GCRTC Teacher Leadership Coach for Visual and Performing Arts, [denise@teachers-center.org]
FEE: None. Registration is required.
CTLE HOURS: 15
REGISTRATION: https://tinyurl.com/5fa7fmpn