Discover CESA 7's professional learning opportunities designed to help educators harness the power of AI with confidence and purpose for the 2025-2026 school year.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
JANUARY 29, 2026 | 8:00AM - 3:00PM
Understand how AI tools can support students’ writing
Use AI tools to differentiate for student success
Identify AI tools that support each component of writing
Apply responsible and ethical AI use practices
Create a classroom plan for integrating AI into writing instruction
Discover how artificial intelligence can become a powerful partner in writing instruction! This engaging, one-day professional learning opportunity is designed for upper elementary teachers and support staff who want to elevate student writing. Explore how AI tools can support every stage of the writing process—from idea generation and text structure to sentence-level work and revision—while also addressing diverse learner needs. You'll leave with practical strategies, ready-touse lesson ideas, and a clear understanding of how to use AI ethically and effectively in the classroom. Join us to plan, practice, and imagine new possibilities for your student writers!
Working with Growing Minds & Growing Readers? This event will be especially beneficial for Grades 3 – 5 Educators, Literacy Specialists, Special Education Teachers, and EL Educators!
FEBRUARY 23, 2026 | 8:00AM - 3:00PM
Unlock the power of AI to make academic content more accessible for multilingual learners. In this hands-on workshop, educators will explore how to simplify texts, build vocabulary, and create visual supports using AI tools – without lowering the rigor! Learn how to generate effective scaffolds aligned to students’ language levels and avoid common AI missteps. Leave with ready-to-use strategies to support content and language development across your classroom.
Simplify complex texts using AI
Generate sentence frames and vocabulary supports
Create visuals and organizers for content access
Align scaffolds to language proficiency levels
Avoid common AI pitfalls for multilingual learners
MAY 13, 2026 | 8:00AM - 3:00PM
In this hands-on professional learning experience, discover how artificial intelligence can streamline assessment practices, amplify your insights, and refocus your energy on what truly matters – teaching and learning. Through the lens of a strategic assessment system, we’ll explore how AI can support the collection, analysis, and use of formative, interim, and summative data to drive meaningful instructional decisions.
Participants will leave with a deep understanding of how to:
Embed AI tools into formative assessment practices to provide timely, actionable feedback.
Use AI-generated insights from interim assessments to monitor growth and tailor instruction.
Enhance summative assessments reflections with AI-driven student selfassessment tools.
withKim Pencil
Expect to engage in realworld classroom scenarios, collaborative problemsolving, and tool exploration designed to help you feel confident apply AIenhanced strategies the very next day!
Geared for those guiding K – 12 Classrooms, Curriculum, and Change!
Utilize AI to co-create rubrics and proficiency scales that are aligned to standards, student-friendly, and differentiated by task complexity.
Use AI to help blueprint assessments and revise items to increase cognitive rigor and ensure alignment with Depth of Knowledge (DOK) levels and learning goals.