Generative AI has the potential to dramatically impact teaching and learning as it continues to evolve with extraordinary speed. Sixty percent of teachers indicate they have tried AI for instructional tasks with most using AI to produce instructional materials (Ebenshade et al., 2025; Gallup, 2025). Teachers across grade levels and subjects experiment with tools that can generate lesson plans, write feedback, create assessments, differentiate tasks, and even tutor students. Meanwhile, fewer than 25% of teachers say they’ve had formal school or district professional learning about AI while 54% indicate insufficient professional learning as a major barrier to adoption (Ebenshade et al., 2025). Many feel that students, through their own experimentation, are the most advanced users, and the educational community wonders how teachers and school leaders