AI teacher certification is getting built from scratch in Indiana — and the guy designing it explains exactly how. Ryan Murray, Project Specialist at the Central Indiana Educational Service Center, breaks down the SAIL certification program (Strategic AI Integration and Leadership), a three-tier framework built with educators, higher ed, and industry across the state.
Key topics covered:
- Why rural Indiana districts are ahead of suburban schools on AI adoption, and what suburban districts are getting wrongThe three-tier SAIL certification: AI literacy, classroom integration, and global leadershipData privacy and student PII: why ed-tech companies lead with safety and what that means for district buying decisionsWhy prompt engineering is fundamentally a communication skill, not a tech skillWhat AI jobs exist right now that nobody is training students for — red teaming, evals, multi-model fluencyRyan's advice to students: get off your computers, talk to people, those skills transfer directly
The bottom line: educators are waiting for AI to be proven before they adopt it, but the students in their classrooms right now can't afford to wait.
About Ryan Murray: Project Specialist at the Central Indiana Educational Service Center (CIESC), AI education program designer, former K-12 teacher and IU Indianapolis adjunct instructor. Three years building AI literacy infrastructure for central Indiana school districts.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rpmurray7/CIESC: https://www.ciesc.org
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