The Essential Skills Educators Need for the 2025-26 School Year
Building AI literacy is imperative for educators as the 2025–26 school year approaches. The question isn’t if you’ll use AI, but how you’ll do it safely, effectively, and in service of real student outcomes (not just shortcuts).
Though AI use among educators is growing exponentially, nearly 70% of US educators say they’re lacking meaningful PD to help them leverage AI responsibly in their work.
AI Literacy Essentials for K-12 is a hands-on, interactive course designed to equip educators with the foundational knowledge, mindsets, and practical skills to be AI-literate—no tech background required. Whether you’re a teacher, instructional coach, or school leader, this course was built for you, by peers who have been in your shoes.
What You'll Learn
In this 90-minute course, you'll gain:
- A clear understanding of what AI is—and what it isn’t
- Safe, ethical strategies for using AI in schools
- Real examples of how educators are applying AI today
- Practice using prompts and evaluating AI-generated content
- Confidence applying AI responsibly in your work
Learning Objectives
After completing this course, educators will be able to:
- Hone their foundational understanding of AI and its role in education, including its capabilities, limitations, and ethical implications.
- Reflect on opportunities and considerations for the use of AI tools in classrooms and schools.
- Craft high-quality AI prompts to generate useful, accurate, and classroom-ready outputs, while recognizing the importance of specificity, iteration, and context.
- Critically evaluate AI-generated content to identify misinformation, hallucinations, and ethical concerns, ensuring accuracy and fairness in educational applications.
- Apply responsible AI practices by safeguarding student data, ensuring compliance with school and district policies, and promoting ethical AI usage.
Enroll Today
Sign up to access the course today and complete the certification at your convenience.
Meet the Educators Behind the Course
The course content was developed by Panorama’s Teaching & Learning Team, our in-house group of AI experts and former educators, who understand the realities of classrooms, leadership, and student support.
With decades of experience directly serving students as teachers, counselors, administrators, principals, and more, Panorama takes pride in building high-quality learning experiences that are grounded in established best practices (not hype).