The Pedagogy-First AI Series
Instruction first, AI second. Practical training that starts with good teaching and uses Google's AI tools to make the work faster, backed by feedback cycles that actually move it into classrooms.
Training on its own moves fewer than 20% of new practices into the classroom. Add structured coaching and follow-up feedback, and that jumps to around 80%. The feedback cycles in this series exist for exactly that reason.
Joyce & Showers, research on transfer of training (Student Achievement Through Staff Development, 2002).How it works
Four moving parts, all virtual, all built to fit around a working teacher's week rather than pull them out of it.
Training
Core sessions delivered live or recorded, so staff can start together or catch up on their own time.
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Teachers take one strategy back to a real lesson and put it to work in their own classroom.
Feedback
They submit that lesson or artifact and get structured written feedback. Three cycles per semester.
Webinars
A monthly live session on one concrete pedagogy-first AI move keeps momentum between cycles.
What the series covers
Six modules, sequenced so each one builds on the last. Every module keeps instruction in front and treats Google's AI tools as the engine, not the subject.
Foundations & Responsible Use
What AI does well and badly in a classroom, plus the guardrails: student data, privacy, and honest limits. Trust gets built here before anything else.
Planning & Prep
Turning standards and materials into lessons and units faster. The time-back win teachers feel in week one.
Differentiation & MLL Support
Scaffolding a single lesson for varied readiness and multilingual learners in minutes instead of hours. A specialization most AI PD skips.
Assessment & Feedback
Faster formative checks, rubrics, and feedback drafts, with a clear line drawn around what stays human.
Student AI Literacy
Age-appropriate lessons on when students should and shouldn't use AI, and how to evaluate what it gives them.
Building It Into Practice
Turning one-off wins into routines that survive past the training. This is where the feedback cycles carry the load.
Who it's for
Whole staffs
Building or district-wide rollouts where every teacher moves together at their own pace.
Departments & teams
Grade-level or content teams who want a shared approach rather than scattered individual habits.
Instructional coaches
Coaches who want to extend the feedback model across their own buildings after the series.
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