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

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.12045v1
• Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2025 21:35:32 GMT
• Title: AI as a Teaching Partner: Early Lessons from Classroom Codesign with Secondary Teachers
• Abstract summary: Colleague AI Classroom is a collaborative design (co-design) study that brought generative AI technology directly into real classrooms.<n>21 in-service teachers from four Washington State public school districts and one independent school integrated four AI-powered features into their instruction.<n>More than 600 students in grades 6-12 used the platform in class at the direction of their teachers.
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• Abstract: 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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