AI in Our PLC Process — Ideas & Pilots by Chad Bates

EXAMPLE: Creating 'first go' of Unit/Lesson plans with a Gem we build that has our Essential Standards and Targeted Outcomes clearly stated would give us a starting place.

2025-08-28 02:18:51 UTC

Using a Google Form to do quick checks or cFA's we get a Spreadsheet with answers. We can have Gemini analyze that sheet and give us the 'High, Medium, Low' Range to identify those that learned it and those that need support.

2025-08-28 02:20:18 UTC

We can construct a Gem that would take any assignment we submit and ask have it look through the assignment and learning targets and then provide extension ideas giving us a place to start our thinking.

2025-08-28 02:22:32 UTC

Teachers should understand how to construct a robust prompt and how to create a Gem.

2025-08-28 02:23:06 UTC

Alternate ways to access grade level information, i.e. podcast, audio text, talking to a character from a book, AI tutors

chadb7 — 2025-09-02 00:14:21 UTC

Build I can statements and/or learning progressions for each (or a set of) essential standard(s)

2025-09-02 00:40:29 UTC

Rubric support

2025-09-02 01:45:16 UTC

For teams that are not currently in review, it would be great for Ai to help with going from learning targets to rubrics that enhance clarity.

Enrichment

2025-09-02 01:46:24 UTC

Agreed that learning how to leverage Ai to generate tasks for enrichment would be beneficial.

2025-09-02 06:09:38 UTC

Use Flint with AI bot to analyze student responses to prompts and upload rubric. Flint will summarize responses according to the rubric

2025-09-02 06:10:36 UTC

Use Gemini to come up with a list of ways to scaffold lessons to meet the needs of different learners. To help with prompt, add in standard and grade level of students.

2025-09-02 06:11:29 UTC

Ask Gemini (or any AI tool) ways to extend and enrich learning tasks according to standard and grade level.

Student Facing LTs

2025-09-02 07:23:12 UTC

Helping teachers translate standards and known learning targets into easy to understand, grade level appropriate, student friendly language

Idea generation

andyv4 — 2025-09-02 09:20:20 UTC

teaching kids to prompt well to get AI to push their learning to deeper levels. Using AI to create questions that are above the level of learning through bots.

Automation of tasks

andyv4 — 2025-09-02 09:21:34 UTC

Using AI to automate slide creation, find resources and creating study guides and bots that are useful for their course based around learning standards

Create learning ladders. Breakdown the learning targets to further understand what students need to know and be able to do for each. Support the unpacking and use it as a thought partner.

2025-09-03 14:51:57 UTC

Little cFA auto assessments

2025-09-03 14:54:44 UTC

Help teachers create little cFAs that certain Ai tools can assess and give feedback on. This formatice data could be used to know common misconceptions, strengths, and who to follow up with.

Personalized Whats Next

2025-09-03 14:58:52 UTC

With Ai available tools, teachers can provide further learning experiences that leverages ai to have students develop the knowledge and skills they didn't get and learn on there own. This would be best done with teacher-directed scaffolds and further supporting the student to become experts learners themselves.

Extension Gem

2025-09-03 15:01:29 UTC

Develop an extension Gem that can create extensions that we feel are worth doing. If we pre-load the gem with an outline we are looking for, this will speed up the process in identifying the extensions. Once we have established this as a valid approach, it is possible for students to have input into the Gem to hone in on learning that is meaningful to them.

Recognize Ai as part of PLC

2025-09-03 15:06:57 UTC

See ai as a partner tool and another member of the PLC. Once this is established and accepted, teachers would need to learn to critically evaluate AI output and iterate to get the desired result. Teachers would need to know which tool they should be using based on the desired result.

Summary and/or analysis of Writing assignment feedback

2025-09-03 23:06:44 UTC

AI as team member that can do certain tasks, allowing teachers to focus on the thinking and actioning

2025-09-03 23:07:28 UTC

Streamline teacher workload

2025-09-04 02:12:46 UTC

Use AI to build a bank of resources and assessment questions that they can draw upon to differentiate for learners and provide challenging, rich tasks without having to recreate them each time the unit is taught.

Coach and thinking partner

2025-09-04 02:14:55 UTC

Supporting students in using AI as a thinking coach and thought partner to deepen their understanding and provide alternative entry points and pathways (interest / passion based) that students can work through to extend learning into Advanced and Exemplary levels.

processing and visualizing data

2025-09-04 02:17:31 UTC

Use AI to identify trends in student data and remove the need for teachers to manipulate it so teacher time is spent sharing practices that resulted in the outcomes identified.

AI can decompose an essential standard into learning targets and success criteria. It can also act as a tool to help teachers understand and gain clarity on how to teach the standard.

2025-09-04 08:30:40 UTC

We can utililize AI to help make sure our Assessments are in alignment with instrucion through the essential standard. You can provide the assessment as a PDF along with a PDF of the essential standard unpacked to ensure instruction is in alignment.

2025-09-04 08:31:40 UTC

Place the standard in AI and ask it to help create 10 activities that would allow you to help students that are not efficient. Place a PDF of the Rubric and this will be tailored to your exact needs in the classroom.

2025-09-04 08:32:26 UTC

AI can generate 10 activities that could extend/dig deeper into the standard so that students are challenged within their confined grades. Go deeper on a conceptual level- not farther.

2025-09-04 08:33:18 UTC

2025-09-04 09:14:49 UTC

AI to help generate standards based rich tasks for students who are ready to be advanced/exemplary without having to go into the next year's standards.

2025-09-04 09:16:41 UTC

How to best use AI to help analyze data in a manner that complies with student data protection.

2025-09-04 09:18:38 UTC

What AI tools are out there to help teachers do their jobs more efficiently? We're using Chatgpt for emails, lesson ideas, etc...what other tools are out there to support? Tools that can make slide shows, presentations, podcasts, etc?

katem59 — 2025-09-05 01:07:17 UTC

Design quick CFUS that inform the teacher

katem59 — 2025-09-05 01:09:19 UTC

have a bot that gives teachers suggestions for most effective strategies for teaching X taking into account what they already tried.

2025-09-05 01:24:46 UTC

For data analysis, can we program our system to analyze student success between units, not just within a unit? We've talked about putting students in categories based on their success on performance indicators within the units, but if teachers have standards that are revisited in multiple units, can our tools identify student progress across that development spectrum?