APS Rising Educator Summit 2026

In today's classrooms, the goal isn't just to get the right answer; it's to cultivate students who can think, question, and persevere through challenges. This hands-on, 60-minute session equips APS educators with practical strategies to use MagicSchool for Students as a catalyst for deeper thinking, not just a shortcut to answers.
Participants will explore how to intentionally design student engagement with MagicSchool that promote inquiry, reflection, and reasoning. Through guided practice and collaborative discussion, educators will leave with ready-to-use classroom moves that shift students from passive users of AI to active, empowered thinkers.
In this session, participants will:
--Understand how MagicSchool for Students can be leveraged to promote and support, not replace, critical thinking and problem-solving
--Identify strategies to scaffold productive struggle and keep students in the driver's seat of their own learning