UTC 2025

AI has the potential to revolutionize professional development, but its effectiveness depends on how we prompt and guide it. This session explores how school leaders can use AI tools to provide teachers with targeted, actionable feedback while maintaining transparency, normed expectations, consistency, and structured observation protocols. Participants will learn how to craft effective AI prompts that align with instructional priorities, ensuring AI serves as a tool to enhance—not replace—human judgment. Real-world examples will demonstrate how AI-driven feedback can support teacher growth, refine instructional practices, and create sustainable professional development opportunities.
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AI has the potential to revolutionize professional development, but its effectiveness depends on how we prompt and guide it. This session explores how school leaders can use AI tools to provide teachers with targeted, actionable feedback while maintaining transparency, normed expectations, consistency, and structured observation protocols. Participants will learn how to craft effective AI prompts that align with instructional priorities, ensuring AI serves as a tool to enhance—not replace—human judgment. Real-world examples will demonstrate how AI-driven feedback can support teacher growth, refine instructional practices, and create sustainable professional development opportunities.
Session Resources

As more and more AI apps and tools become available, it is often difficult to know where to begin. Will this app help? Is this tool really free? What does this resource do? This session will explore free and low-cost AI resources that will aid both teachers and students in planning and content creation. Please bring your laptop or mobile device, and let’s see what some new and exciting AI tools can do!
Session Resources

As more and more AI apps and tools become available, it is often difficult to know where to begin. Will this app help? Is this tool really free? What does this resource do? This session will explore free and low-cost AI resources that will aid both teachers and students in planning and content creation. Please bring your laptop or mobile device, and let’s see what some new and exciting AI tools can do!
Session Resources

In our classrooms we see students struggle with thinking critically and independently, often relying on surface-level responses rather than engaging in deep thought. This session will explore strategies that fuel critical thinking, enhanced by interactive and dynamic activities designed with Flippity and Canva. Join us as we ignite critical thinking and inspire students to engage with standards-based learning on a deeper level.
X: @MrsAPursley
Session Resources

In our classrooms we see students struggle with thinking critically and independently, often relying on surface-level responses rather than engaging in deep thought. This session will explore strategies that fuel critical thinking, enhanced by interactive and dynamic activities designed with Flippity and Canva. Join us as we ignite critical thinking and inspire students to engage with standards-based learning on a deeper level.
X: @MrsAPursley
Session Resources

While each is vastly different, technology and pedagogy are used within the classroom daily. This session will explore how each contributes to the changing learning environment. We will discuss what we know about both areas and examine if each is keeping up with the needs of the 21st-century learner and the demands of the current educator.
Session Resources

While each is vastly different, technology and pedagogy are used within the classroom daily. This session will explore how each contributes to the changing learning environment. We will discuss what we know about both areas and examine if each is keeping up with the needs of the 21st-century learner and the demands of the current educator.
Session Resources