AI as a Teaching Partner: Early Lessons from Classroom Codesign with Secondary Teachers

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Main Authors: Liu, Alex, Esbenshade, Lief, Sarkar, Shawon, Tian, Zewei, Sun, Min, Zhang, Zachary, Han, Thomas, Lapicus, Yulia, He, Kevin
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author Liu, Alex
Esbenshade, Lief
Sarkar, Shawon
Tian, Zewei
Sun, Min
Zhang, Zachary
Han, Thomas
Lapicus, Yulia
He, Kevin
author_facet Liu, Alex
Esbenshade, Lief
Sarkar, Shawon
Tian, Zewei
Sun, Min
Zhang, Zachary
Han, Thomas
Lapicus, Yulia
He, Kevin
contents This report presents a comprehensive account of the Colleague AI Classroom pilot, a collaborative design (co-design) study that brought generative AI technology directly into real classrooms. In this study, AI functioned as a third agent, an active participant that mediated feedback, supported inquiry, and extended teachers' instructional reach while preserving human judgment and teacher authority. Over seven weeks in spring 2025, 21 in-service teachers from four Washington State public school districts and one independent school integrated four AI-powered features of the Colleague AI Classroom into their instruction: Teaching Aide, Assessment and AI Grading, AI Tutor, and Student Growth Insights. More than 600 students in grades 6-12 used the platform in class at the direction of their teachers, who designed and facilitated the AI activities. During the Classroom pilot, teachers were co-design partners: they planned activities, implemented them with students, and provided weekly reflections on AI's role in classroom settings. The teachers' feedback guided iterative improvements for Colleague AI. The research team captured rich data through surveys, planning and reflection forms, group meetings, one-on-one interviews, and platform usage logs to understand where AI adds instructional value and where it requires refinement.
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spellingShingle AI as a Teaching Partner: Early Lessons from Classroom Codesign with Secondary Teachers
Liu, Alex
Esbenshade, Lief
Sarkar, Shawon
Tian, Zewei
Sun, Min
Zhang, Zachary
Han, Thomas
Lapicus, Yulia
He, Kevin
Human-Computer Interaction
Artificial Intelligence
This report presents a comprehensive account of the Colleague AI Classroom pilot, a collaborative design (co-design) study that brought generative AI technology directly into real classrooms. In this study, AI functioned as a third agent, an active participant that mediated feedback, supported inquiry, and extended teachers' instructional reach while preserving human judgment and teacher authority. Over seven weeks in spring 2025, 21 in-service teachers from four Washington State public school districts and one independent school integrated four AI-powered features of the Colleague AI Classroom into their instruction: Teaching Aide, Assessment and AI Grading, AI Tutor, and Student Growth Insights. More than 600 students in grades 6-12 used the platform in class at the direction of their teachers, who designed and facilitated the AI activities. During the Classroom pilot, teachers were co-design partners: they planned activities, implemented them with students, and provided weekly reflections on AI's role in classroom settings. The teachers' feedback guided iterative improvements for Colleague AI. The research team captured rich data through surveys, planning and reflection forms, group meetings, one-on-one interviews, and platform usage logs to understand where AI adds instructional value and where it requires refinement.
title AI as a Teaching Partner: Early Lessons from Classroom Codesign with Secondary Teachers
topic Human-Computer Interaction
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.12045