This infographic, created by NotebookLM, highlights the benefits of participating in the 12 Days of Innovation: AI Wonderland 2025 for leaders and K-12 administrators.
Discover the specifics of the learning in the 12 Days of Innovation: AI Wonderland, which applies to leaders and K-12 administrators.
Productivity Updates & Accelerators
This learning focuses on creating custom AI assistants (Copilot Agents or Gemini Gems) to save time, stay organized, and boost efficiency. Leaders can design role-based bots to assist with specific administrative needs, such as generating information related to TTESS (Texas Teacher Evaluation and Support System) or drafting SMART Goals.
Multimodal Thinking
Multimodal tools (speaking, visuals, writing) help administrators streamline communication and capture complex qualitative data. Principals can record short voice reflections after classroom visits (walkthroughs) and upload them to AI tools (Copilot or ChatGPT) to summarize patterns or highlight growth areas across teachers, making the reflection process more efficient.
Discourse Strategies
This session leverages NotebookLM, a file-aware tool valuable for leaders organizing data. Administrators can upload notes from a meeting, a walkthrough cycle, or a campus plan to surface trends, generate summaries, or create guiding questions for PLCs. The application challenge for administrators involves generating a mind map or podcast segment from uploaded data to organize next steps for leadership teams.
Warming Up to AI Literacy
Sets Policy and Safety Foundation: Teachers and students learn core principles for safe, ethical, and thoughtful AI use, including transparency, bias and accuracy checks, and respect for copyright. Objectives include applying guidelines to design conversations or activities that promote safe and thoughtful AI use among students. Resources include K-5 and 6-12 AI-Era Traditional to Transitional Teacher Guides.
Productivity Updates & Accelerators
Enhances Instructional Tools: Teachers learn about AI features built into standard tools, such as Canva, Seesaw, Lumio, and PearStart (secondary resource). This supports high-impact learning by boosting teacher efficiency, thus freeing up teacher time for instructional leadership.
Student-Centered Formative Writing Feedback
Enhances the Writing Feedback Cycle: Utilizes tools like Class Companion and Magic Student to provide students with meaningful formative writing feedback. AI is positioned as a partner to peer and teacher feedback, helping students focus on growth and improvement rather than just the final score.
Summative Writing Scoring & Feedback (Teacher-Centered)
Ensures Consistency and Fairness: Utilizes AI tools (Gemini and Copilot) to assist teachers in calibrating writing scoring and providing high-quality feedback in accordance with the PLC Protocol for scoring writing. This ensures that all content-area teachers provide quality feedback.
Multimodal Thinking
Fosters Visible Thinking and Language: Explores multimodal tools, such as Snorkl, that allow students to speak, draw, annotate, or write to demonstrate their understanding. This is critical for moving beyond memorization to visible thinking and is highly valuable for language development and TELPAS practice, particularly in developing speaking skills.
Discourse Strategies
Deepens Conceptual Understanding: Focuses on using AI (specifically NotebookLM) as a "third partner" in structured academic discourse. The goal is to teach students how to think with AI—practicing skills like asking sharper questions and building productive skepticism—using established routines like Talk Read Talk Write and Tap and Talk.