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Update: Google-Funded Project on K-12 AI

A Message from Chris Harris

I am very excited to share the release of the TeachingAbout.AI K-12 Field Report. This report, developed as part of our Google-funded project, collects what we learned from our AI convening in December, 2025 as well as additional research insights. We offer recommendations for teachers, principals, instructional leaders, and school librarians. There are also additional recommendations around collaborative opportunities with higher education and public libraries.

All of this work is built around the previously released Rochester Provocations that begin with the statement that "There is no AI problem." What we are facing is the wicked problem of education itself including all of the compounded issues that have gone unaddressed over the last decades. AI is the catalyst for this crisis moment, but not the cause. This report is, obviously, unable to provide instant solutions to a wicked problem, but we think the recommendations offer well-considered starting points for school districts to begin working on local solutions.

Some of the key recommendations are based more around how we assign and assess student work, rather than on AI as a specific technology. For example, we suggest moving away from AI detectors or other adversarial approaches to assessment re-design and instead seeking more valid evidence of student understanding. A strong example of this is Voice First Written Assessment, an elegantly simple model for capturing student thinking to compare to a student's final submission. We feel that school librarians–already positioned as school-based experts in the media literacy, information seeking practices, and computational thinking that undergird AI literacy–are well-suited to lead this work.

Huge thank you to Eileen Anderson and Melissa Jacobs for being part of this work as well as librarians Lindsay Cesari and Cynthia Sandler.

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Keep Students Reading This Summer with The New York Times!

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