Human+AI Practice Pathway for high school educators

Teaching for Human+AI Agency

Prepare students to work with AI while strengthening the learning, agency, integrity, relationships, and human capabilities education should develop.

Six guided Studios · Designed for school- or district-supported cohorts of up to 25 named participants

Design for students who can think and act beyond the tool

This pathway helps high school teachers move beyond reactive rules and isolated AI activities. Participants redesign one instructional unit so students learn when and how to use AI, make their thinking visible, retain meaningful responsibility, and develop capabilities they can carry into further education, work, and civic life.

  • Six sequenced, interactive Practice Studios
  • Application across subject areas and course levels
  • Local alignment with school or district policy
  • Private responses stored in each participant's browser

Free foundation: From Prompting to Partnership is available before this pathway, but it is not one of the six required Studios. Facilitators may waive it when participants already demonstrate the foundational capabilities.

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Pathway at a glance

The central question

How can high school teachers prepare students to work with AI without weakening learning, agency, integrity, or human relationships?

Suggested cadence
Eight weeks
Weekly rhythm
Self-paced Studio plus a short cohort conversation
Studios
Six connected sessions
Primary artifact
An AI-ready instructional unit and student participation protocol
Credentials
Six Skill Badges plus a Practice Credential
Audience and differentiation

Who this pathway is designed for

Best fit

Grades 9-12 teachers, librarians, instructional coaches, and teaching teams who can apply the work to a real course unit. Mixed-discipline cohorts are appropriate because participants design within their own subject and student context.

How it differs

Choose this pathway when the unit of change is a high school learning experience and student agency is the goal. Choose Beyond the Parrot when the narrower priority is moving students from one-answer AI use to critical dialogue.

Companion workshop + pathway

Use Beyond the Parrot to create a shared critical-dialogue launch

Teaching for Human+AI Agency supports broad high school unit redesign. Beyond the Parrot can accompany it when educators and students first need a common experience of moving from one-answer AI use to questioning, push-back, verification, revision, and defensible thinking.

The public price is for the complete workshop-and-pathway bundle, not a standalone workshop: $21,500 for one workshop day plus one Competency Practice Pathway cohort, or $35,000 with the first-year Institutional Portfolio.

Explore the Beyond the Parrot workshop and pricing
  • Half-day educator workshop
  • Repeated 60–90-minute student sessions in the second half of the day
  • Up to 50 students per session
  • Guided app practice at two progressive levels
  • Six connected Practice Studios
A red-and-blue parrot beside books and a computer
What the app does

A thinking coach, not an answer tool

The app asks learners to state what they already think, frame a stronger question, defend or revise a position through structured push-back, compare human-only and AI-only work, and verify confident claims.

Level 1 introduces the Parrot Test, Goal + Context + Ask, and a push-back round. Level 2 adds a cognitive audit, five rounds of challenge, superior synthesis, and an intellectual-honesty audit.

Cohort experience

How the cohort works

Participants bring one current unit, assignment sequence, or assessment challenge. Each Studio adds a necessary design layer, and the final artifact integrates learning goals, AI participation, visible thinking, developmental support, equitable access, and evidence of student discernment.

Teacher-centered application

Grounded in students, subject matter, and school context

The pathway does not prescribe one AI policy or one platform. Teachers identify the human capabilities their students need, then make context-sensitive choices that align with learner development, course goals, access conditions, and local policy.

Meaningful human oversight

School and district decisions remain local

Privacy, approved tools, family communication, accommodations, student accounts, and age-related safeguards must follow the institution's requirements. The pathway helps participants translate those requirements into usable learning design rather than replacing local governance.

A sample eight-week schedule

Six Studios build the instructional unit; two application weeks support piloting, feedback, and revision.

  1. Before launch

    Prepare the cohort

    Identify the facilitator, enroll participants, confirm local AI requirements, and ask each teacher to select a unit or assignment sequence.

  2. Week 1

    Teaching Students How to Think

    Choose the human capability students must develop and redesign one activity so their thinking becomes visible.

  3. Week 2

    Designing for Partnership

    Define the learning and agency outcome that will guide appropriate AI participation.

  4. Week 3

    The Assignment That Talks Back

    Build dialogue, challenge, response, and revision into the learning task.

  5. Week 4

    The Guide That Fades

    Plan support that helps students begin and deliberately recedes as capability grows.

  6. Week 5

    From Ghost Energy to Ghost Writers

    Address unequal access, hidden support, and responsible participation in AI-rich learning.

  7. Week 6

    Judgment and Discernment

    Define evidence that students can make and defend choices beyond polished AI output.

  8. Week 7

    Pilot and gather feedback

    Test or simulate the redesigned unit with students or colleagues and identify where expectations, support, or evidence remain unclear.

  9. Week 8

    Revise, communicate, and submit

    Complete the instructional unit, student participation protocol, implementation plan, and a concise communication for families or school stakeholders.

Estimated time: 75 minutes per week for Weeks 1–6. This includes approximately 45 minutes for the self-paced Studio plus a 30-minute cohort conversation. Pilot and project time varies with the instructional context.

Six connected Studios

The six-session pathway

Institutional package

Coordinated practice, not six isolated links

The pathway combines six connected Studios, cohort discussion, local facilitation, an AI-ready instructional unit, progress visibility, and credentialing.

  • Unit context and durable learning goals
  • Student-facing AI participation boundaries
  • One redesigned learning sequence
  • Visible evidence-of-thinking plan
  • Scaffold-and-fade strategy
  • Equitable-access alternative
  • Assessment criteria for discernment
  • Implementation and communication plan
Transparent pricing

Institutional pathway pricing

Badge & Practice Credential Pathway

$4,500

One cohort of up to 25 participants.

  • Six Human+AI Skill Badges
  • Human+AI Practice Credential
  • Dashboard and cohort report

Competency Practice Pathway

$7,500

One cohort of up to 25 participants.

  • Everything in the Practice Credential pathway
  • Facilitator onboarding session
  • Project review authority
  • Human+AI Competency credentials

Institutional Portfolio

$25,000/year

Up to three pathways, four cohorts, and 100 pathway enrollments, with annual reporting.

School and district implementation: Curriculum customization, policy alignment, and additional facilitator preparation can be scoped separately. View complete institutional pricing and bundles.

Your pathway progress

Sign in with your institution-enrolled account to open eligible Studios, view recorded completions, and see earned credentials.

Completion tracking stores activity counts, dates, and credential IDs, not your Practice Studio answers, reflections, or AI conversations.