The report also suggests creating a “quick and easy-to-understand” six-month road map for district leaders to work with their staff and communities to establish a vision for AI in their districts. The other three important steps:

Seed a national education leadership strategy. Create a national leadership network to connect leaders across the AI and education sectors. This activity should also involve students, community and civil rights leaders, policy advocates, and business and edtech leaders. The work should include an intentional focus on students with diverse learning needs, such as students with disabilities, multilingual learners and children from historically underserved populations.
Focus on the "art of the possible." To spread powerful ideas for transforming K12, education leaders and stakeholders should also collaborate over the next three to five years on designing school models “for a world where generative AI is ubiquitous.” They should identify use cases that involve "connections to humans," such as reducing teachers' workloads and appealing to student interests.
Invest in research and development for early-stage AI adoptions. “Design an ‘AI big bets’ philanthropic fund that advances a clear vision for AI's potential to reimagine teaching, learning and students' futures, especially for students who urgently need learning acceleration, mental health support, and other ‘wicked opportunities,'” the report urges. Matching grants would incentivize state education offices to support districts and their stakeholders as the develop AI strategies and policies.

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