AI Implementers Symposium
Regional, team-based learning experiences that help districts build practical plans for AI implementation.
Innovators Retreat
A capstone experience where district teams come together to share progress, solve challenges, and learn from one another.
AI Workshops & Webinars
Virtual and in-person learning opportunities that help educators stay current on AI throughout the year.AI Implementers Symposium
Turn AI plans into district action.
The AI Implementers Symposium is designed for district leadership teams who are ready to move from exploration to implementation. Through hands-on clinics, collaborative planning, and conversations with peers, you’ll leave with practical strategies and a clearer path forward for your district.
Bring your team
The symposium is designed as a team-based experience, giving you and your colleagues the opportunity to work together on decisions, systems, and next steps to support AI implementation in your district.
We recommend attending with a team of 8–10 people, with a maximum of 10 participants per team. If you’re interested in attending individually, applications will also be considered through a review process, with participation options available to those not attending as part of a district team.
Pricing
Northern Michigan: $500 per team (maximum of 5 participants per team)
Southwest Michigan: $1,000 per team (maximum of 10 participants per team)
$200 per person (individual attendance is by approval; complete the request form to be considered)
2026–2027 locations
Northern Michigan • October 26, 2026 • Gaylord Treetops Resort • Register by October 4, 2026
Southwest Michigan • November 18, 2026 • Kalamazoo Valley Community College
Southeast Michigan • Spring 2027 (details coming soon)
If you'd prefer to pay with a PO, please use this registration link.
Domains
This menu lists the 50-minute clinics offered during the three clinic blocks at each one-day regional symposium. Domains are designed for districts already past the on-ramp — districts with policy, guidance, and student expectations in place — who now need a structured chance to learn alongside peers, pick up new frameworks, and identify what to take back home for deeper work.
Each clinic is a focused, high-density session: a framework introduced, a tool demonstrated, a protocol practiced, or a peer comparison run. Participants leave each clinic with a concrete artifact — a worksheet, framework, scoping document, or checklist — that supports follow-up work at the district level.
Domain
Clinics are organized into four tracks. Team members may freely mix clinics across tracks based on their role and interest; nothing requires a member to stay in one track for the day.
Domain | Labs | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
A: Policy & Oversight | A1 Safety, Privacy & Governance | Addressing concerns for FOIA, FERPA, risks, through policy, guidance, and clear expectations. Highlights case studies across MI and guidance from MDE. |
A2 Your Policy, One Year Later: From v1 to v2 | What year one of implementation revealed about first-generation AI policies, and a self-assessment to prioritize the next revision. Also address growing skepticism and shifting public sentiment. | |
A3 Pilot with Purpose: Scaling AI That Works | Design an actionable AI pilot that measures adoption, efficacy, and equity to build the evidence needed to determine whether and how a tool should scale. Participants will also develop a plan for widespread adoption that continuously monitors, calibrates, and improves implementation and outcomes over time. | |
B: Curriculum & Instruction | B1 Unit Redesign for the AI Era | Rebuild a unit for the AI era by deciding, moment by moment, when, where, how, and why AI belongs in the learning process, and when it shouldn't. Participants model the redesign live and leave with a modernized, AI-adapted unit ready for immediate classroom use. Tools Used: Gemini, SchoolAI |
B2 [Rethinking] Authentic Assessment | Clarify assessment purpose and targets, then apply three redesign moves (process visibility, oral defense, and applied transfer) to a real assessment. Walk away with a student-centered, equitable, AI-resilient assessment ready to use. | |
B3 AI-Augmented Formative Feedback | Deliver high-quality, standards-aligned formative feedback at scale without sacrificing student relationships. Explore AI workflows that generate timely, specific, evidence-based guidance rather than generic slop. Let AI assist with those tough critiques, and walk away with customized prompt templates to provide more impactful feedback. | |
C: Operations & Advanced Integration | C1 From Prompts to Processes: Designing AI Powered Workflows | Rethink your most persistent workflow challenges by exploring how chat, skills, agents, and loops can work together. Using the delegate, direct, and evaluate framework, participants will leave with a detailed blueprint for an AI-powered workflow they can begin building and testing in their district. |
C2 Design Thinking for Operations and Systems | Bring an operational challenge and use a facilitated design thinking process to leave with a scoped, testable next step. | |
C3 Train-the-Trainer & Building Capacity | Build an internal network of AI trainers who can support consistent, sustainable learning across your district. Explore practical structures for preparing facilitators, sharing resources, and responding to emerging capabilities, and leave with a plan for expanding expertise. | |
D: Students & Community | D1 Student Voice in AI Decision-Making | Move beyond asking students for feedback by building meaningful student voice into AI task forces, guidance, and implementation decisions. Hear real-world examples from districts, explore practical structures for student participation, and leave with a plan for involving students as partners in shaping responsible AI use. |
D2 Shaping AI Use Together: Families, Schools, and Communities | Develop strategies for helping families and community partners understand district AI policies and practices that support student learning, prioritize safety and ethics, and strengthen student–teacher trust. Participants will explore how transparent communication and community partnerships can prepare students to use AI critically and responsibly in college, careers, and beyond. | |
D3 Student AI Literacy: Beyond the Rules | Moving students from rule-followers to capable, critical users — what a district-wide student AI literacy progression looks like across grade bands. |
How teams use this menu
Each district team of eight to ten members will split across the three clinic blocks. Because clinic choice is free, we recommend a brief team huddle the morning of the event — built into the opening session — for the team to coordinate coverage.
During the closing session
Each team reassembles for the one-hour closing block. Members bring the walk-away artifacts from their three clinics. The team uses a structured protocol to identify the two or three priorities they will commit to in the 30 days after the event.
Recommended coverage pattern
At least one team member in Track A (Policy & Governance) across the day
Two to three covering Track B (Curriculum & Instruction)
One to two covering Track C (Workflow & Operations)
Two to three covering Track D (Advanced Integration / AI 301)
A note on clinic depth
50-minute clinics are designed for framework acquisition, demonstration, and applied practice — not deep document production. Districts wanting structured time to fully rewrite a policy or redesign a unit should plan to use the post-event window (and optional MV follow-up consulting) for that work. Each clinic walk-away is engineered to support that next-step work.
Innovators Retreat
Continue the work beyond the symposium.
A capstone exchange for districts ready to push AI integration the furthest (i.e., move from Implementation to Innovation). The Innovators Retreat will take place in Spring 2027 and provide an opportunity for advanced teams to shape what's next at the intersection of pedagogy and emerging technology.
Spring 2027 • Details coming soon.
AI Workshops & Webinars
Keep learning all year long.
Beyond the Summit also includes webinars and workshops that explore timely topics in AI and education. Whether you're just getting started or refining your district's approach, these sessions offer practical guidance you can apply right away.
Upcoming sessions will be announced soon.
There’s more ahead with Beyond the Summit
Join our interest list to hear about upcoming Beyond the Summit events as registration opens. Whether you’re looking ahead to this spring, next year, or another opportunity to bring AI learning to your team, we’ll keep you informed about what’s coming.