2:30 - 3:20
Concurrent Sessions D
Room L1
Exploring The Stickiest Issues: AI Use in Schools
Karen Drezner, Founder/CEO, Leveraging Leaders; Doctoral Student, Mid-Career Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership, Penn GSE; Regina Hardatt, Co-Founder and Consultant, Empathy in Action; Doctoral Student, Mid-Career Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership, Penn GSE
AI has been described as “a growing web of related technologies,” tools that could streamline and speed up our work but also leads us to question, well, everything. What are the stickiest issues, and how can we work through them in ways that benefit teacher practice and student learning?
Room L2
Practical AI Strategies for Both Students and Teachers
Christopher Rozelle, Teacher, George Washington High School, School District of Philadelphia
This interactive teacher workshop introduces promising practices for integrating generative AI tools into high school classrooms. Be prepared to collaborate with other participants as you explore ethical and appropriate uses for AI to enhance student learning and teacher productivity. Participants will be provided with free digital resources during the session.
Room L3
CoachGPT: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence in Instructional Coaching
Matthew Kornberg, Director of Teacher Coaches, Office of Professional Learning, School District of Philadelphia; Juliana Klein, School Based Academic Coach, School District of Philadelphia
Explore how generative AI can be a resource in supporting instructional coaches in their reflection and practice. Experience a coaching tool designed using PlayLab, and discuss how similar tools could benefit your practice.
Rainey Auditorium
Writing with/in Digital Platforms: How Machines are Reshaping Youth Literacy Practices
Clara Abbott, Doctoral Student, Penn GSE; Sunny Ajitabh, Student, Rutgers University; Jen Freed, Doctoral Student, Penn GSE; Teacher Consultant, Philadelphia Writing Project; Rabani Garg, Doctoral Student, Penn GSE; Opal Jawale, Student, Johns Hopkins University; Amy Stornaiuolo, Associate Professor of Literacy Studies, Penn GSE; Co-Director, Philadelphia Writing Project; Emmy Talian, Doctoral Student, Penn GSE; Teacher Consultant, Philadelphia Writing Project; Emmanuelle Kramer, Student, Upper Dublin High School; Mary Wolters, Student, Conestoga High School
This session explores how bots and platform designs affect digital writing and accessibility. Participants will learn how an intergenerational team uses participatory action research to examine platforms like Discord, revealing how machines reshape youth literacy. The discussion offers insights for educators on navigating, integrating, and writing with/in digital platforms and practices in classrooms.
Room M1
Prompt Engineering Our Way Toward AI Writing Partners that Center Black Language
Paul Allison, Teacher Consultant, New York City Writing Project; Dr. Bonnee Breese Bentum, Teacher, Science Leadership Academy at Beeber, School District of Philadelphia; Teacher Consultant, Philadelphia Writing Project
We will introduce you to Writing Partners, or AI assistants that we are developing with and for our students. We have begun to prompt AI foundational models to pay attention to grammatical structures, word choice, rhetorical patterns, and organization that are common in African-American English and in the speech of other English Language groups. The Writing Partners that we are building with prompt engineering use linguistically inclusive practices to help students to make choices about correctness and voice in their writing based on audience and purpose.