4 papers
Creating and Evaluating K-12 GenAI Assessment Graders Through Context Engineering
Zewei Tian, Alex Liu, Lief Esbenshade +6
The integration of large language models (LLMs) into educational assessment represents a transformative shift in classroom grading practices. While automated scoring systems and ma…
Generative AI in K-12 Classrooms: A Midyear Implementation Report
Lief Esbenshade, Alex Liu, Michael Xiao +6
This mid-year report summarizes teacher use of Colleague AI across 12 Washington State school districts from September 1 to December 31, 2025. Produced jointly by Colleague AI and…
AI as a Teaching Partner: Early Lessons from Classroom Codesign with Secondary Teachers
Alex Liu, Lief Esbenshade, Shawon Sarkar +6
This report presents a comprehensive account of the Colleague AI Classroom pilot, a collaborative design (co-design) study that brought generative AI technology directly into real…
Emerging Patterns of GenAI Use in K-12 Science and Mathematics Education
Lief Esbenshade, Shawon Sarkar, Drew Nucci +10
In this report, we share findings from a nationally representative survey of US public school math and science teachers, examining current generative AI (GenAI) use, perceptions, c…