AI Professional Development by teachers for teachers.

Join educators across the country as we explore AI tools and meet together to discuss the impact of this emerging technology on teaching and learning.

Our Mission

Co-Lab believes that teachers need hands-on exploration with AI tools in order to leverage AI for pedagogically-sound teaching and learning. We provide high-quality guided explorations to facilitate educators’ experimentations with AI and create a space for participants from different schools to collaborate as they interrogate the power, the potential, and the pitfalls of AI use in the classroom. Timely and applicable, this style of professional development centers on classroom teaching and empowers educators to move from literacy to agency in their approaches to generative AI. Our group is also committed to cultivating a network and a greater sense of solidarity among its members as we take our findings back to our respective schools.

How it Works

Each month, we will explore different prompts, then meet together to discuss the benefits and drawbacks of this kind of AI use for our classrooms.

  • Introduction Call. This 25 minute zoom call will explain the exploration for the month. You will hear from the prompt designers on how to get the most out of your time exploring the prompt.

  • Independent Exploration. Co-Laborators will spend 45-60 minutes independently exploring the given prompt.

  • Collaboration Call. This 60 minute zoom call will lead members through small group, facilitated conversations. You will meet other educators and talk together about how this exploration could bring benefit (or not) to your educational space.

A Wide-Reaching Network

Co-Lab membership includes educators from East to West coast, as well as some international educators. Though our conversations focus on pedagogical implications, our membership extends beyond core subject teachers. Co-Laboration calls will include elementary, middle, and high school teachers, administrators, and technology professionals.

  • “Built by educators who want to empower educators to build meaningful AI systems in the classroom, it offers hands-on exploration fo real AI tools, honest conversations about classroom use, and shared problem-solving around lesson design, assessment, and ethics. It’s greatest strength is the community”
    —Andrew, Educator

  • “Co-Lab is one of the most powerful professional development opportunites I’ve been a part of over the course of my career. The grassroots way it is driven by teachers and designed for teachers is authentically relevant.”
    —Jeff, Director of Innovation and Technology

  • “Co-Lab structures the engagement with AI in a helpful way that can help to build competencies and identify areas that need to change (and those that don't).”
    —Lisa, Parent @ Sidwell Friends

  • “Co-Lab was far and away my most exciting takeaway from the conference.”
    — David, Educator @ NAIS AI Summit

  • “Co-Lab was maybe the thing I heard the most buzz about coming from the NAIS symposium, and from everything I’ve heard, the hype is totally deserved.”
    —Evan, President Pathos Consulting Group