Training for Tomorrow: Building Authentic AI-Enhanced Classrooms This Summer

Summer with Purpose: Authentic Assessment Meets AI Integration

This summer, T.E.A.C.H. is helping school districts across Virginia build educator capacity in two critical areas: authentic assessment and responsible AI integration. Whether you’re planning teacher bootcamps, admin retreats, or GPT training, we’ll help your team design experiences that develop both timeless human skills and future-ready AI fluency.

And here’s what sets us apart: we’re not just consultants—we’re public school educators, too.

T.E.A.C.H. team members- Tyler Hunt and Cary Wright currently serve in a Virginia public school district- as coordinators, and instructional leaders. That means every strategy we share has been pressure-tested in real classrooms, with real students, under the same demands your staff faces daily—from high-stakes testing to teacher burnout to resource constraints.

We bring ideas that are innovative and workable. We know what it means to differentiate for 30 students, write IEPs, lead walkthroughs, prep for VDOE audits, and still make time for authentic instruction.

So when we say we can help, it’s because we’re doing this work right alongside you.

Bringing Back the Human Element—Authentic Assessment in an AI World

In a world where ChatGPT can produce an essay in seconds, assessment must evolve. Our classrooms should elevate thinking over typing and build performance tasks that merge real-world relevance with AI-powered possibilities.

Here are a few examples we’ve been sharing with districts:

• 🎙️ Oral Presentations in Tidewater: Students pitch AI-informed ethical solutions to naval dilemmas inspired by Frankenstein.

• 📚 Socratic Seminars in Richmond: Middle schoolers explore Poe’s work and legacy while challenging each other's interpretations with evidence.

• 🌊 Elementary AI Projects in Virginia Beach: Students predict shoreline erosion using real data and present their findings to environmental agencies.

• 🧪 Data Projects in Roanoke Valley: High schoolers analyze watershed health using AI tools and visualization software.

• 📜 Historical Tech Challenges in Alexandria: Students use natural language processing and digital exhibits to tell untold civil rights stories.

These assessments combine core content with collaboration, speaking, listening, and tech fluency—skills that can’t be automated.

🚀 Book Your Summer Training Today

We’re now booking Summer 2025 professional learning experiences, including:

• Teacher AI Bootcamps: Lesson planning, formative assessment, and small-group support using AI

• Administrator Retreats: Strategic vision-building for AI in instruction and operations

• GPT Build Sessions: Custom GPT creation aligned to your local curriculum and assessment needs

• Authentic Assessment Planning Workshops: Develop real-world projects like the ones above, infused with AI where appropriate

📆 Spots are filling up. If you're planning summer PD, let’s talk this week.

🏆 Who’s Already Working with Us

• Roanoke County Public Schools: Strategic AI rollout planning

• Richmond City CTE: Admin LLM training and multi-phase consultation

• Appomattox County: AI prompting, lesson plans, GPTs (new session in April)

• Bristol Virginia Public Schools: Benchmark data analysis using our AI processes

Want your district to join this list before fall? Book now.