Artificial intelligence is no longer on the horizon. It is in the classroom, the lesson plan, and the professional practice of educators everywhere. This three-part Knowledge Booster series ($29) equips K–12 educators with practical, immediately applicable skills for using Claude, Anthropic’s AI assistant, with confidence, creativity, and ethical care. Participants will move from foundational understanding through classroom application to sustainable, equity-conscious implementation. You’ll receive a free, one-year TCEA membership for each participant ($49 value), and earn two CPE hours for hands-on learning.

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🚀 Part 1: Meet Claude: Foundations & Effective Prompting
In this first part, you will explore what Claude is, how it thinks, and why it behaves differently from a search engine or chatbot you may have used before. Understanding Claude’s design is the foundation for using it well. You will leave Part 1 with a working Claude account, a tested set of foundational prompts, and the ability to recognize a high-quality AI response when you see one.

🚀 Part 2: Claude at Work – Classroom Applications & Time-Saving Strategies
Part 2 moves from understanding to doing. You will apply Claude to the tasks that consume the most educator time and energy. Those include lesson planning, differentiation, assessment design, and family communication. This part is built around real classroom scenarios so that every technique you practice maps directly to your work. By the end, you will have a personalized collection of Claude workflows organized by task type, ready to deploy on Monday morning.

🚀 Part 3: Claude with Confidence – Ethics, Equity & Sustaining Your AI Practice
The final part of this series addresses the questions educators ask most urgently: Is this ethical? Is it fair to all my students? How do I keep using AI without it becoming a crutch? Part 3 gives you frameworks for responsible AI use, tools for surfacing and addressing equity concerns, and a concrete 90-day plan for sustaining your Claude practice. You will leave with the confidence to model thoughtful AI citizenship for your students and colleagues.

It also includes a Technical Orientation, which has:

A great start to browser-based version of Claude.