Unlock the Power of AI
in Your Elementary Classroom
with Debbie Tannenbaum

This 60-minute webinar introduces practical ways to use AI to enhance teaching and empower students.

Video: https://youtu.be/cvF8bUHrOG4

The 40th Anniversary of the Critical Skills Classroom
with Laura Thomas

Schools looked different when the Critical Skills Classroom came to Antioch University New England. No one had heard of PBL, Cooperative Learning was group work, #Experiential Learning was for ropes courses and backpacking trips, and EdTech was playing Oregon Trail on the classroom Apple IIe. Then a group of teachers came together with a common purpose— to figure out how to help their students solve problems, communicate, and collaborate without adding more to their already overcrowded days. Together, they created the Critical Skills Classroom.

A lot of things have changed over the last 40 years, but Critical

Skills is still created by teachers, for teachers, grounded in

educational research, designed to support all kinds of teachers in all kinds of classrooms—with the flexibility to meet this moment in education.

Come learn about how the Critical Skills Classroom has evolved to support teachers contending with AI, complex social needs, and ever-changing curricular expectations.

Video: https://youtu.be/UI0OpLcsYBM
Audio: https://bit.ly/Webinar120325Audio

Truth in the Age of AI:
Building News-Savvy Students
with Dr. Cathy Collins

From deepfakes to algorithm-driven feeds, today’s media landscape demands new forms of literacy. In this session, Dr. Cathy Collins, author of the forthcoming ISTE+ASCD book Teaching News Literacy in the Age of AI, shares practical strategies for helping students verify information, spot bias, and understand AI’s influence on what they see and believe.

Attendees will explore classroom-ready tools and cross-curricular activities that foster curiosity, critical thinking, and ethical engagement with digital media. Walk away with ideas you can use immediately to empower students as informed digital citizens in an AI-infused world.

Video: https://bit.ly/NEL01072026V
Audio: https://bit.ly/01072006A

Slides: https://bit.ly/01072006Slides

Improving Professional Learning Systems for Today’s Educators: Playbook for State and Local Leaders

with Ji Soo Song

Tuesday, February 24
from 11:30AM - 12:30PM Eastern Time

SETDA, in partnership with ISTE+ASCD, Learning Forward, and FullScale, has developed Improving Professional Learning Systems to Better Support Today’s Educators: How Title II, Part A Offers a Model for State and Local Leadership, a new guide on strengthening state and local systems for edtech and AI professional learning, that was released at the SETDA Leadership Forum on November 5, 2025. In this edLeader Panel, viewers learn about the research behind the guide, key recommendations for leaders, and strategies for building sustainable systems that expand educator capacity.

This session emphasizes how Title II-A and braided funding can shift professional learning from compliance-driven training to educator-driven growth. By highlighting coaching models, PLC structures, and AI literacy building opportunities, the panelists show how systems can empower educators to set goals, lead peers, and personalize learning pathways. Viewers explore strategies that build capacity while ensuring professional learning is sustained and aligned to instructional vision.

Register: https://bit.ly/REG022426

From Fragmentation to Coherence: Coordinating AI to Address AI as a System-Level Challenge

with Michael Ham and Megan Benay

Thursday, March 5th
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Eastern Time

As AI use accelerates across K-12 education, efforts are emerging at every level of the system—from classroom experimentation to school and district pilots to state guidance and policy. Too often, these actions unfold in parallel rather than in coordination, creating fragmentation that limits AI’s potential to support meaningful, student-centered transformation. This webinar explores AI not as a tools challenge, but as a systems-level problem that requires aligned action across classrooms, schools, districts, and state systems. Drawing on work from FullScale's Exponential Learning Initiative, School Teams AI Collaborative, and early insights from the Rural AI Strategy Lab, the session will highlight what the field is learning so far about building coherence around AI. Participants will gain insight into common fragmentation patterns, the coordinated actions that help systems move forward together, and how FullScale plans to continue learning alongside practitioners—particularly in rural contexts—over the coming months.

Register: https://bit.ly/REG030526