Generative AI and writing in education.
Professional Development
Educators
Seminars or workshops.
Series or a single-day.
for
On The Same Page
Foundational Understanding
What GenAI is, how it works, and how we arrived at its current place in education.
Research regarding its presence in classrooms—and what still requires teachers’ judgement.
How its implications differ across learning levels, tasks, and learners’ needs.
How schools are approaching ethical use and ethical abstinence, and the reasoning behind those responses.
The Blinking Cursor
Prepared with a Response
Distinguishing students’ reasons for use: access, clarification, reassurance, efficiency, or avoidance.
Responding to the learning need while addressing responsibility for the work.
Examining ethical use and ethical abstinence.
Addressing inconsistent expectations, disputed authorship, and students’ concerns about fairness.
Clarifying when parental assistance supports learning—and when it displaces the learner.
Save As
Protect Your Work and Your Students
Best practices for lesson-planning with Gen AI.
Using Gen AI as an assessment tool - strategies.
Professional AI-assisted correspondence.
Determining the unique roles of teachers and EAs in this work.
(Not) Find and Replace
Gen AI and Cognition
How Gen AI supports, and fails, UDL
Identifying the thinking moves behind a Gen AI assignment.
Designing guardrails that help students succeed while preserving consequential decisions.
Making questioning, revision, and authorial discernment visible.
Supporting neurodivergent learners - tools, barriers, differentiation.
Introducing QODS as an approach to sustaining the writer’s thinking.
Teaching metacognition.
