"The idea that people need to keep in mind is when people don't know what you do as a superintendent, they make up what you do as a superintendent," says Dr. Joe Sanfelippo, superintendent of the Fall Creek School District in Wisconsin.

It helps to stand in your substitute teachers' shoes. Consider their uncertainty and worry from the moment they accept an assignment to the final bell of the day.

At first thought, one might consider the juxtaposition of a cemetery and an elementary school a little morbid, but a school board member and history buff says its presence gives the children a unique learning opportunity.

From streamlining lesson plans to brainstorming creative classroom activities, teachers and students are embracing generative AI—and they say it's a game changer.