Math + AI Design Studio

A professional learning and design opportunity for middle school math educators

At a time when educators are being asked to respond quickly to new AI tools and policies, the Design Studio creates space to build AI literacy, examine real classroom use cases, and make thoughtful decisions grounded in teaching and learning.

Through virtual professional learning, collaborative inquiry, coaching, and classroom-based experimentation, fellows will deepen their understanding of AI, explore existing tools and workflows, and consider how AI might support authentic problems of practice in their own classrooms. Fellows will also have opportunities to design, adapt, or test AI-supported tools and routines aligned to their instructional goals and students’ needs.

The Design Studio positions teachers as lead architects of AI integration, not simply users of new tools.

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What Makes The Design Studio Unique

This Design Studio is designed to help educators:

• Build a stronger understanding of AI and how it is showing up in schools
• Examine existing AI tools through the lens of instruction, equity, and student experience
• Explore real classroom use cases in middle school math
• Test and reflect on what supports student thinking, participation, and access
• Make decisions grounded in instructional purpose and developmental understanding
• Learn alongside a national community of middle school math educators

At Bank Street, we believe AI should support thoughtful teaching—not replace teacher judgment.

What You’ll Gain

• A structured professional learning experience focused on AI literacy and middle school math instruction
• Opportunities to explore existing AI tools, real classroom use cases, and practical applications
• Access to Playlab for tool exploration, adaptation, and prototyping
• Coaching and support from Bank Street facilitators and partners
• A collaborative learning experience with educators from across the United States
• Opportunities to share and showcase your work
• Stipend or honorarium
• Professional learning hours / CTLE credit

Your Learning Journey

Over the course of the Design Studio, participants will:

• Build a foundational understanding of AI, including key concepts, capabilities, limitations, and ethical considerations
• Explore how AI intersects with equity, student agency, and ambitious middle school math instruction
• Examine existing AI tools and classroom use cases with a critical, practice-based lens
• Identify an authentic problem of practice from their own teaching context
• Experiment with AI-supported strategies, routines, tools, or workflows aligned to their goals
• Use Playlab, when relevant, to design, adapt, or prototype lightweight AI-supported tools or workflows
• Test ideas in practice and reflect on what they learn
• Revise their approach based on coaching, peer feedback, and classroom experience

Design Studio Structure

The Design Studio is organized around a cycle of learning, inquiry, classroom use, reflection, and revision.

Learn → Explore → Try → Reflect → Revise

Participants will engage in virtual professional learning, exploration of existing tools and classroom use cases, collaborative inquiry and design, classroom-based experimentation, coaching and peer feedback, opportunities to adapt or prototype tools with Playlab, and a culminating showcase.

Who Should Apply

We welcome middle school math educators who are:

• Currently teaching middle school mathematics, or serving in a role directly connected to middle school math instruction
• Curious about the opportunities and limitations of AI in education
• Interested in exploring AI in ways that are thoughtful, instructionally meaningful, and grounded in the way children learn and grow
• Open to experimentation, reflection, and collaboration
• Excited to learn with and from a national community of educators
• “exploring AI in ways that are thoughtful, instructionally meaningful, and grounded in the way children learn and grow”

No advanced AI experience is required. Educators with a range of experience levels are encouraged to apply.

Key Dates & Deadlines

Final dates and a detailed calendar will be shared with selected participants.

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