2026 Elevated Teaching Summit

AI is a powerful collaborator, but intentional pedagogy always comes first. This session is designed to provide educators with guiding principles for keeping the human element at the center of classroom artificial intelligence. We’ll focus strictly on student-facing use cases, shifting the conversation from what the technology can do to how it can meaningfully support student learning. We’ll begin by reviewing AI’s potential benefits and limitations before evaluating real-world examples of teachers purposefully integrating these tools. Additionally, we will examine the 4D Model to see how it can be used to cultivate true, human-centered AI fluency. Finally, we’ll discuss when AI is—and isn’t—the right tool for the job, examining practical heuristics to ensure technology always serves the student, not the other way around.