A new NPR poll dropped this month, and one number was crazy to me.
Eight in ten K-12 teachers say they’ve received zero formal guidance on how to use AI in their work.
Zero....what?! How can that be true...
Meanwhile, nearly 3 in 4 of those same teachers believe AI’s impact on education will be bigger than the internet. Bigger than computers. The biggest shift in their professional lifetime, and most of them are figuring it out alone, on a Tuesday afternoon, between periods.
That gap is the whole problem. It’s the reason I built Teachers! Harness AI.
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Here’s what I keep hearing from teachers: “I know AI could help me. I just don’t know where to start.” Or: “I tried it once and didn’t really get anywhere.” Or, the one that breaks my heart a little: “I don’t have time to learn one more thing.”
I get it. You’re already grading papers at 10pm. You’re already writing sub plans and parent emails and progress reports on the weekend. The last thing you need is another tool that requires a learning curve before it pays off.
That’s why the course I’m building isn’t about AI in the abstract. It’s about your actual workload, right now. The grading. The feedback. The parent communication. The documentation and paperwork that follows you home every single night.
AI can take a real chunk of that off your plate. Not someday. Starting this summer. Stay tuned!
