AI Professional Development Resources for K–12 Teachers
If you joined the April 30 Spark AI Lab roundtable, this page holds the working materials from the session. The resources also apply to anyone designing AI professional development between now and the May 21 rollout deadline.
The Meaning Risk Snapshot
A team diagnostic with three parts: a ten-item risk score, a cultural context map, and a narrative risk summary. The instrument adapts validated tools from healthcare team research (the TAT and ROCI), Clark and Brennan's grounding theory, and Erin Meyer's culture work. Use it on your PD design team before May 21 to surface where shared meaning is most likely to drift. Retake it at Day 30 and Day 60 once your rollout is underway to see whether your repair moves are landing.
Module 1: Why Meaning Fails Silently
The opening module of the Meaning Repair course. Free to read. Covers how shared meaning breaks down in teams under pressure and what the first repair move looks like in practice. The remaining nine modules live in the Meaning Repair section if you want to keep going after Module 1.
Read Module 1:
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Walk through your PD design with me before you deliver it. We'll work the five-lens frame from the talk against your specific session: what's drifting, what needs to be pinned, what assumptions to check before the room fills up. No charge. Slots open between May 5 and May 19.
About this work
I’m Jerry Washington, a Marine Corps veteran, USC Rossier Ed.D. in Organizational Change and Leadership, and UC Irvine continuing education instructor. I research how teams lose and restore shared meaning under pressure, especially when new tools move faster than the language people use to talk about them.
My current work focuses on AI readiness in education and workforce systems. I work with districts, education organizations, and workforce boards on PD design, change management, and the clarifying conversations that have to happen before AI tools land in classrooms or staff meetings. If anything on this page is useful and you want to keep the conversation going, the consultation slots above are the easiest place to start.
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