Colleague AI, Inc. and the AmplifyLearn AI Center at the University of Washington are recruiting K-12 educators for an ongoing research panel. We're looking for teachers, paraeducators, specialists, and administrators to co-design, test, and give feedback on the AI tools we're building — before they reach classrooms, not after.
Who's asking, and why it's not just another ed-tech startup
AmplifyLearn AI Center is an IES- and NSF-funded National R&D Center for AI in K-12 Education. Colleague AI is the research-based platform built alongside it to support the full K-12 teaching and learning cycle. The research behind this panel carries federal backing and federal accountability: it's supported by an Institute of Education Sciences grant (R305C240012), three National Science Foundation awards (#2043613, #2300291, #2405110) to the University of Washington, and an NSF SBIR/STTR award to Hensun Innovation LLC (#2423365).
What you'd actually be signing up for
Signing up adds you to the panel — nothing more. You don't commit to a single study by joining; you just start getting invited to them. When we run a co-design session, a usability test, a survey, or a research study, panel members get the details and decide for themselves, every time, whether it fits. Say no as often as you want. If you say yes, you're paid for your time at our federally audited hourly rate, and panel members get first access to test the Colleague AI platform's beta before it's available to educators generally.
How it works, step by step
- Sign up once using the form below.
- When a study comes up that matches your role or interests, we send an invitation with what it involves, how long it takes, and what it pays.
- You accept or decline — no pressure either way.
- If your district requires documentation to approve outside research participation, our team helps you complete it.
No AI experience required, no district affiliation required
Any K-12 educator can join — classroom teachers, paraeducators, specialists, instructional coaches, and administrators. You don't need prior experience with AI, and you don't need to work in one of our partner districts. Skeptics are as welcome as early adopters; we need the panel to reflect the full range of classrooms these tools have to work in, not just the educators already sold on AI.
Co-design happens before launch, not as a post-launch survey
Panel feedback is built into the process before a feature ships, not collected afterward as a satisfaction score. Decisions about what to prioritize, what to rework, and what to scrap get made with panel input in the room, not around it.
Every feature we build starts with a question about what teachers actually need.
Sign up to join the panel
Joining takes a few minutes and doesn't obligate you to anything beyond that. Questions before you sign up? Reach out to success (at) colleague.ai
Join the Educator Research PanelYou can also download our informational flyer! Print or share it with your colleagues or anyone who you think might be interested.
