Bridging the AI Divide in Your Schools

Author

Merissa Sadler-Holder
April 17, 2025

Hey teacher besties 👋

🧑‍🏫 One teacher builds AI-powered lessons that spark creativity.
🚫 Another bans AI completely.

Same school. Same students. Wildly different realities.

That was the story I opened with at THE AI SHOW @ ASU+GSV during my session:
A Tale of Two Teachers – Bridging the AI Divide.

And it sparked a bigger conversation—
✨What does it actually take to build sustainable AI literacy in schools?

Spoiler: it's not just a cool tool or one training session.
It's mindset. It's culture. It's infrastructure.

So, I built something to help.

🎉 Introducing the Teaching with Machines Homegrown AI Framework 🎉
A practical, teacher-centered model for growing AI capacity from the inside out—without relying on flashy programs that fade in a month.

Let’s be so for real 💅
If we taught our students about AI for three hours, never mentioned it again, and expected them to get it…
We’d be laughed out of the classroom (or fired 🙃).

So why are we doing that with teacher PD?

And why are we required to differentiate for students but not for teachers?

This framework helps schools:

✅ Identify and support early AI adopters
✅ Compensate teacher-leaders (yes, please!)
✅ Define clear, measurable milestones
✅ Build internal leadership pathways
✅ Design high-impact, differentiated PD using AI

If you’re ready to move beyond one-and-done sessions and actually empower the teachers already in your schools—this is where we start.

🧠💬 I consult with schools to customize this work for their unique context, whether you're just starting or scaling.

Let’s build something that lasts. Together.


📩 Hit reply if you want to bring this to your school or district or book a free coffee chat with me to discuss your goals and explore your options!

We got this.

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K👋baiii teacher besties!

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I love reading your feedback, it helps me design effective solutions for others. I respond to all my emails. Just hit reply to this email. Rooting for you and your students! Love, M.

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