AI Center for Effective Teaching and Learning

We build the capacity of educators and learners to use AI tools in ways that support, rather than undermine, effective teaching and learning.

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Workshops Audits and Assessments Keynotes and Institutes Policy Review and Design

Professional Learning Workshops:

Hands-on sessions to build AI literacy, explore AI tools, and build the capacity of teachers and students to use AI tools to intentionally support learning.

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Readiness Audits and Needs Assessments

Conduct focus groups or surveys with teachers, students, administrators, and community members to gain a deeper understanding of stakeholders’ uses and perceptions of AI tools.

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Keynotes and Institutes

Thought-provoking presentations by experts, including Center Director Tony Frontier, on the future of AI in education, current research, and practical applications for educators and learners.

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Policy Review and Design

Review and provide guidance to develop policies and practices that ensure AI tools are used to support student learning, minimize cheating, and maximize academic integrity.

MISSION

AI is a disruptive, transformational technology that creates new challenges and opportunities for schools, teachers, and learners. In times of transformational change, how we respond to an innovation is more important than the innovation itself.

Our mission is to empower educators and learners to leverage artificial intelligence tools in ways that support, rather than undermine, effective teaching and learning. We help educators and students bridge the gap between what AI tools can do and how those tools should be used.

VISION

We envision a future where AI tools are everywhere, and educators are able to use them in ways that:

Align priorities for teaching with students’ opportunities to learn important content, concepts, and skills.
Intentionally help students prioritize and align their strategy and effort to learn in ways that are rooted in research on effective teaching and learning.

We envision a future where AI tools are everywhere, and students are able to:

Act with the agency necessary to pursue challenging learning goals, engage in productive struggle, ask clarifying questions, seek feedback, and advocate for their learning needs, with or without the use of AI tools.
Demonstrate integrity and transparency when using AI tools, are prepared to explain their evidence of learning, and are able to monitor and reflect on the processes they’ve used to learn.

Tony Frontier, PhD is the Director of the AI Center for Effective Teaching and Learning. He is an award-winning educator with 30 years of experience as a teacher, principal, curriculum director, university professor, and consultant who works with teachers and school leaders to prioritize their efforts to improve student learning. Tony facilitates engaging, practical, research-based workshops on topics including curriculum design, classroom assessment, student engagement, academic integrity, technology integration, and strategic planning. His most recent book, AI with Intention: Principles and Action Steps for Teachers and School Leaders (2025) includes a foreword by Jay McTighe and has been praised by John Hattie as “the best book I have read to introduce all to optimize the power of AI.”

Tony's latest book- AI with Intention: Principles and Action Steps for Teachers and School Leaders
Tony's latest article - Students’ Perceptions of AI i n Seven High Schools: Moving from Avoidance and Deterrence to Responsible Engagement