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How can teachers begin to effectively and responsibly enhance teaching and learning through implementing generative AI tools?
This problem of practice offers three approaches that teachers can effectively and responsibly use to enhance teaching and learning by implementing generative AI tools.
How can teachers support students to develop their ability to use generative AI effectively and responsibly in their learning?
This problem of practice provides teachers with guidance on how to support students to develop their ability to use generative AI effectively and responsibly in their learning.
Recovering Capacity by Using AI for Lesson Planning and Creating Instructional Materials
Teachers spend significant time creating lesson plans, presentations, practice problems, and other instructional materials to ensure lessons are rigorous and accessible. Generative AI can reduce this workload by producing high-quality instructional...
Working with Industry Partners to Design Real-World, AI-Enhanced Projects
Generative AI tools like ChatGPT help students engage deeply in authentic problem-solving challenges by supporting research, ideation, and content creation. This strategy explores how students can use AI to empathize with real-world partners,...
Building Time Management through Calendar Look-Aheads
Calendar look-aheads guide students to anticipate both academic and personal commitments. This strategy strengthens time management, reduces last-minute stress, and helps students make proactive adjustments in navigating dual-enrollment courses.
Self-Assessments for Student Growth
Self-assessments prompt students to reflect on their confidence, effort, and strategies. By pausing to evaluate themselves, students strengthen self-management and a growth mindset while providing instructors with valuable insight into how students...
Deepening Student Learning in Three Kentucky Communities
The Aurora Institute toured three Kentucky sites in 2025 to elevate lessons from past work and to assess progress to date and goals for the future. Using document review, on-the-ground interviews, observation, and existing expertise in deeper...
Community Schools Case Study Project
Introduction We know that there are many models of innovative learning aimed at systems transformation. This case study series aims to explore the work of community schools, who take a whole-community approach to education that aligns with the...
It’s Not a Matter of Time: Highlights from the 2011 Competency-Based Summit
From Anchorage, Alaska, to Orlando, Florida, and from Gray, Maine, to Yuma, Arizona, one hundred competency-based innovators gathered at the Competency-based Learning Summit in March 2011. Because pockets of innovation were operating in isolation,...
Promising Practices to Advance DEI Among Non-Profit Boards
The Aurora Institute works to drive the transformation of education systems and accelerate the advancement of breakthrough policies and practices to ensure high-quality learning for all. In pursuing this mission, Aurora has built the values of...
A Roadmap for Implementation of Blended Learning at the School Level: A Case Study of the iLearnNYC Lab Schools
This roadmap was designed to provide guidance to NYCDOE school administrators in implementing blended learning programs in their own schools. Over the 2012-13 school year, iNACOL worked with 8 NYCDOE Lab Schools, each with its own blended learning...