Consultations

---

Focus: Understanding what AI can and cannot do and how it changes instruction.

Participants will:

•  Understand how AI generates responses and where it fails

•  Examine why traditional tasks collapse under AI use

•  Identify instructional moves that still require student thinking

•  Explore practical classroom strategies teachers can implement immediately 

Focus: Creating tasks AI cannot easily replace.

Participants will learn to:

•  Design prompts that require reasoning, explanation, and evaluation

•  Shift from answer-getting to thinking-demonstration

•  Strengthen writing and discussion preparation

•  Use AI strategically as a thinking partner rather than a shortcut

Focus: Strengthening reasoning and information literacy.

Participants will explore strategies that help students:

•  Evaluate claims and reasoning

•  Identify hallucinations and weak explanations

•  Compare AI reasoning with human reasoning

•  Build intellectual habits of skepticism and verification

Focus: Concrete instructional strategies teachers can implement immediately to make student thinking visible while using AI responsibly.

Participants will learn practical classroom routines that:

•  Require students to explain reasoning rather than simply produce answers

•  Structure AI as a thinking partner rather than a shortcut

•  Help students critique and evaluate AI responses

•  Strengthen writing, discussion preparation, and revision

Teachers will leave with ready-to-use classroom protocols that support deeper thinking across subject areas.

Focus: Structured AI use that strengthens learning rather than replacing it.

Participants will learn how to guide students in using AI tools to:

•  Refine reasoning by questioning and improving explanations

•  Test arguments by challenging claims and identifying weak logic

•  Expand explanations by adding evidence, examples, and clarity

•  Revise writing while evaluating which AI suggestions improve the work

Teachers will leave with a set of structured classroom routines that help students use AI to strengthen reasoning, writing, and revision rather than bypassing the thinking

Focus: Designing assessments that reveal student thinking even when AI tools are available.

Participants will learn how to design assessments that:

•  Reveal real understanding rather than surface-level answers

•  Require explanation, justification, and reasoning

•  Make student thinking visible through writing, discussion, and revision

•  Remain meaningful and rigorous even in AI-rich environments

Teachers will leave with a framework for redesigning tasks and assessments so students must demonstrate reasoning, explanation, and intellectual ownership of their ideas.

Focus: Supporting teachers and instructional leaders as they implement thinking-centered AI practices in real classrooms.

Schools may receive support through:

•  Department or grade-level coaching sessions

•  Assignment and assessment design workshops

•  Instructional leadership consultations

•  Follow-up sessions to reflect on implementation and refine practice

Schools will leave with a clear implementation plan and ongoing support structure to help teachers integrate thinking-focused AI practices into everyday instruction.

Focus: I design training that helps teams question, test, and think with AI, not just generate with it.

Organizations may receive support through:

• Team-based workshops on evaluating AI outputs and improving decision-making 
• Workflow and task redesign sessions to integrate AI without lowering thinking quality 
• Leadership consultations on setting expectations for responsible AI use 
• Follow-up sessions to review real use, identify breakdowns, and refine practice 

Participants leave with practical strategies and a clear plan for using AI in ways that improve thinking, not just speed up output.