AI READY – Students, Future Ready Classrooms

February 9, 2027

8:30am – 3:30pm

Medinah Banquets, 550 Shriners Drive, Addison Illinois

This workshop is offered In Person and also Live Streamed through Zoom

Session Description –

Artificial intelligence is already shaping the world students live, learn, and will eventually
work in. As educators and school leaders, we can’t ignore AI, but the solution is not
simply “allowing AI use,” adding a separate AI class, or buying into one school-wide AI
edtech tool or program. Instead, this work requires thoughtful teaching and intentional
planning around how we prepare students to navigate a world where AI exists. The goal
is not to treat AI as something separate from learning, but to thoughtfully embed the
knowledge, skills, and attitudes students need into the teaching already happening
across K–12 classrooms.
In this full-day workshop, we will explore practical ways to teach students about AI, for
AI, and with AI through everyday instruction across content areas and grade levels.
Based on the book Teaching Students to Use AI Ethically and Responsibly, co-written
with Sal Khan, this session focuses on helping students develop the habits and thinking
skills they need to use AI ethically, responsibly, and thoughtfully. Participants will explore
more than 30 skills students need in an AI-powered world, including evergreen skills like
questioning, critical thinking, metacognition and verification alongside newer skills
connected to interacting with and evaluating AI systems. Together, these skills become
part of strong instruction rather than something separate from it.
Throughout the day, we will engage with current research, emerging frameworks,
classroom examples, instructional routines, planning tools, and skill progressions across
grade bands. We will explore both tech-free and technology-based approaches and
consider how this work looks different in K–2, 3–5, 6–8, and 9–12 classrooms.
Participants will leave with practical strategies, classroom-ready resources, and clearer
ways to think about preparing students for a world where AI is increasingly present,
whether supporting this work directly in classrooms or helping lead thoughtful
implementation across schools and districts.

Learning Outcomes

Participants will:
* Explore the knowledge, skills, and attitudes students need to navigate an AI-
powered world ethically and responsibly.

* Understand how AI-related skills and behaviors can develop progressively across
grade bands, including K–2, 3–5, 6–8, and 9–12.

Explore the knowledge, skills, and attitudes students need to navigate an AI-
powered world ethically and responsibly.

* Examine more than 30 AI-readiness skills for teaching with, for, and about AI.
* Explore current state, national, and international frameworks and emerging
research connected to AI readiness, student learning, and responsible AI
integration in schools.
* Explore both tech-free and technology-based approaches that support student
thinking, agency, and responsible decision-making.
* Consider where AI-related learning naturally fits within literacy, inquiry,
discussion, problem-solving, and content-area instruction.
* Explore classroom tools, resources, and examples that align to and support the
development of AI-related skills across grade levels.
* Collaborate with educators and leaders to think about how to support and
implement this work across classrooms, schools, and districts.
* Engage with classroom examples, instructional routines, planning tools, and
developmental progressions that can be used immediately in practice.

Presenter:

Meghan Hargrave is an experienced educator with over 20 years in the field. After
serving as a teacher leader in the classroom, she moved into education coaching and
consulting, where she now supports hundreds of K–12 schools and districts worldwide.
Her work focuses on curriculum, instructional practices, systems thinking, literacy, and
the thoughtful integration of Artificial Intelligence in teaching and learning. Meghan is
especially known for helping educators navigate change and learning in practical,
student-centered ways.
She works closely with thousands of educators on meaningful and responsible AI
integration in schools. Meghan is the coauthor of The Artificial Intelligence Playbook
(now in its second edition), Teaching Students to Use AI Ethically and Responsibly, and
the upcoming Raising Generation AI. Together, these books focus on helping schools,
educators, and families prepare students for an AI-powered future.
Meghan is an international presenter, has taught preservice teachers at Columbia
University’s Teachers College, regularly contributes to educational publications, and is
known for sharing innovative and effective classroom strategies via social media as
@letmeknowhowitgoes.
Book: Teaching Students to Use AI Ethically and Responsibly (add-on purchase $45)