2026 SAIS Annual Conference

Name how everyday classroom practice is already changing as AI becomes a routine part of student work. Center the real questions educators are wrestling with now: how to design assignments that still demand thinking, how to read and respond to student work when AI support is present, and how to hold onto clarity and rigor as familiar classroom routines begin to shift.
Anchor the conversation in current research on AI, cognition, and judgment, while sharing instructional approaches currently in use at Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School. Treat AI not as something to manage or police, but as a condition that changes how teaching decisions have to be made.
Leave having seen a clear instructional framework and concrete evidence of its impact in classrooms, along with shared language to guide faculty conversations, align expectations around learning and assessment, and support school-wide responses to changes that feel significant, disruptive, and increasingly unavoidable.