EdWeek Data: Progress and Work Needed in Teacher AI Training

New data from EdWeek shows significant progress in AI professional development for educators—and highlights that there is still significant work left to do to support teachers' AI literacy.

Here are some of the key findings:

• 50% of teachers have now received at least one AI PD session (up from 42% last year and just 13% in 2023)

• 32% have received only one session and only 14% received multiple sessions

• School and district leaders are more likely to have a received training than the teachers

From the research on effective PD and AI for Education's own experience training thousands of educators, we know that teachers need job-embedded and ongoing training that provides ample opportunity to learn and apply the training to their own contexts. So it is worrying to see how few teachers have received more than one training.

We would love to see districts commit to providing high-quality foundational AI literacy training for all educators by the beginning of the 2026 school year. With a commitment to more comprehensive training by the end of next school year.

If you want to get started with free trainings, you can check out our free course and the over 50 hours of recorded workshops/webinars on our site.

You can see the data here.