Take the Plunge: Learn AI This Summer
You've got a little breathing room before the new school year — use some of it to get comfortable with AI. A self-paced, asynchronous course with hands-on assignments, plus free guides to get you started. No lesson plans due. No pressure. Just you, some time, and a topic worth understanding.
AI is Math. Not Magic.
A black box only computer scientists understand.
That story keeps capable educators on the sidelines.
Statistics and pattern recognition, explained plainly.
Once you see the math, it stops feeling intimidating.
Everything you need to take the plunge.
Three ways to start — go through all three, or start with whichever meets you where you are.
The Summer AI Course for Educators
Asynchronous and self-paced — work through it whenever it fits your summer. 8 hands-on assignments covering the full AI-assisted design cycle, from generating to evaluating, differentiating, and assessing with AI. Join the platform and start whenever you're ready.
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Guide to AI Tools for Educators
A practical, no-nonsense rundown of the AI tools educators are actually using — what they do, where they help, and where to be careful. A reference you'll come back to.
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Introduction to AI for Educators: AI is Maths, Not Magic
Start here if AI still feels like a black box. A plain-language introduction to what's actually happening under the hood — the math, not the mystique.
Download the introductionYour students are already using AI. Are you?
AI isn't an emerging trend anymore — it's already in your students' backpacks, their group chats, and their homework routine.
It's already part of daily life.
Spell check, navigation, streaming recommendations, search — AI has quietly been part of everyone's routine for years. The version showing up in classrooms now is just more visible.
Your students aren't waiting for permission.
Students are already using AI tools for research, writing, and problem-solving, with or without guidance. Understanding the tools they're using is how you help them use them well.
Learning about it is part of the job.
Understanding AI — how it works, where it helps, where it falls short — is quickly becoming as core to professional practice as understanding any other tool that's reshaping the classroom.
Ignoring AI doesn't make it go away — it just means you're not in the conversation. Summer is the lowest-pressure moment of the year to catch up.
Training is part of our DNA.
We're not a new AI wrapper chasing a trend. Colleague AI is research-backed, federally funded, and built alongside the institutions that study how educators learn.
Educator training isn't an add-on for us — it's core to how Colleague AI was built. Our research funding from NSF, DOE, and IES, and our training partnership with AmplifyLearn, all exist to make sure educators aren't just handed a tool, but genuinely supported in learning it.
From educators who took the plunge.
Colleague.ai simplifies the task of finding and adapting high school curriculum resources, offering user-friendly customization that meets the unique needs of each classroom effectively.
I've also found it to be fun to use it as a learning tool. So if I've read about something online, I'll ask Colleague: “Can you give me an example of what this would look like in the math classroom? Here is the activity, and here's this teaching framework I've read. Can you use this teaching framework to revise this activity?" This type of professional learning saves me hours.
Give yourself the summer to get comfortable with AI.
Start the self-paced course, grab the guides, and try the Colleague AI platform — free. No magic required. Just some time and a willingness to learn the math behind it.
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