Career
Prepare for changing work and the capabilities it will require.
Val Verde Studio · 2026–27
A new capability, carried into education.
A yearlong advanced AI Studio for Val Verde teachers and administrators. Study the technology firsthand and prepare for what it will mean for your career, your school site, and your students.
01 · Work
Work is changing.
AI can research, create, analyze, use tools, and carry work across many steps. It is changing what people will be expected to know and do.
02 · School
School will change with it.
As work changes, so do the questions schools must answer about learning, assessment, and what students need to practice.
03 · Understand
Understanding comes first.
Val Verde Studio gives educators time to meet this technology firsthand, support their peers, and guide students toward the world ahead.
Enter the Studio
Why the Studio
Understand AI firsthand.
Not from headlines. From firsthand work.
Teachers and administrators study advanced AI in practice, learn where it succeeds and falls short, and prepare for what changes next.
School site
Help colleagues respond with judgment rather than anxiety or hype.
Students
Guide thoughtful builders and decision-makers, not passive users.
The technology
Learn it at the level it deserves.
This is not a survey of tools. Participants work directly with the systems reshaping careers and schools, building enough understanding to distinguish possibility from hype and usefulness from risk.
Models and context
Work with instructions, context, reasoning, and uncertainty.
Multimodal systems
Work across text, images, audio, video, and data.
Research and retrieval
Ground AI in sources and inspect its answers.
Agents and tools
Design multi-step workflows that use tools and keep context.
AI-assisted development
Build and test a working prototype around a real question from your role.
Evaluation and judgment
Test outputs and decide where people must lead.
Studio practice
Dedicated time to explore.
Firsthand practice to allow educators to gain an understanding of current and future AI capabilities. Learn advanced methods from real experts.
Studio practice
On
Internet search
Find current information, compare sources, and verify claims.
Document analysis
Work across reports and research without losing source context.
Computer use
Navigate websites and software to complete multi-step digital tasks.
Image and media
Create, analyze, and revise images, audio, and video.
Code and data
Build prototypes, analyze data, and automate repeatable work.
Learn firsthand. Apply human judgment. Prepare peers and students.
What it will mean
What will this change for students?
As AI reshapes adult work, it changes what young people need from school.
What will students need to understand and practice as AI reshapes the career fields and society they enter?
Where can AI strengthen learning, and where must human teaching remain central?
How do students become thoughtful builders and decision-makers, not passive users?
How can teachers and administrators help colleagues respond with judgment rather than anxiety or hype?
The cohort
A year to learn, build, test, scale.
The Studio will likely include three to four full-day sessions. Substitute coverage will be provided for participating classroom teachers. That protected time will support learning, building, testing, and sharing what proves useful.
Understand the technology.
Study current systems in real use. Learn what they can do, where they fall short, and why both matter.
Make the possibility concrete.
Create a working prototype around a real question from your role.
Find what holds up.
Examine its outputs, its limits, and the moments where human judgment must lead.
Extend what proves useful.
Turn tested learning into reusable guidance and approaches for colleagues and students.
The room
Teachers, site leaders, coaches, and district administrators learn beside one another because these questions reach every level of a school system.
Val Verde Studio · 2026–27
Bring the questions you are carrying.
Join teachers and administrators across Val Verde for a year of firsthand study.