About this Event
Education has long been rooted in producing workers that fit the needs of the workforce in that day and age. But as AI takes root in jobs and shifts workforce demands, how are we adapting? How should we be educating the younger generations to fit the needs of the future workforce? How, if at all, can we integrate AI into education best-practices?
All these questions and more will be answered in this critical conversation on the blending AI and the future of K-12 schooling.
Join Sunanna Chand, Executive Director of The Reinvention Lab at Teach For America; Alex Kotran, Co-Founder and CEO, The AI Education Project (aiEDU); and Dr. Victor Lee, faculty lead for the Stanford Accelerator for Learning's initiative on AI and Education.
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Sunanna Chand is in service of Teach For America’s R&D engine, the Reinvention Lab. The Reinvention Lab builds new offerings for TFA that are on the cutting edge of the future of learning, and shares what it learns to shape the organization and the field. Our motto, inspired by Grace Lee Boggs, is to “transform ourselves to radically transform learning.” Learn more at www.reinventionlab.org.
Prior to the Reinvention Lab, Sunanna was Executive Director of Remake Learning in Pittsburgh, PA, a diverse network of 600+ schools, museums, libraries, government, philanthropies and more, working together to create engaging, relevant, and equitable learning experiences for each and every young person across the region (www.remakelearning.org).
Sunanna holds an M.Ed in International Education Policy and Management from Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College, and has previously worked as a public health network leader for local government and as a TFA Corps Member/elementary school teacher in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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Alex Kotran co-founded aiEDU in 2019 after he discovered that the Akron Public Schools, where his mom has taught for 30+ years, did not offer any courses or learning about AI.
Alex began his career as a community organizer, working on President Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign, and as an appointee under HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell where he managed state-level outreach for the Affordable Care Act.
Alex has a decade of experience in the AI space. In 2015 he joined Opower, the first companies to use machine learning to help utility companies reduce energy demand. In 2018, he was hired to launch the social impact arm of H5, a company that pioneered the use of language models in the legal sector. At H5, Alex built a global judicial training program with the National Judicial College, and organized dozens of AI Governance summits with organizations including UNESCO, Stanford Law, NYU Law, and the European Commission.
Alex is a second generation immigrant from Akron, Ohio. He studied political science and government at the Ohio State University.
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Victor R. Lee is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University and is faculty lead for the Stanford Accelerator for Learning's initiative on AI and Education. Through his research, he asks what future-facing STEM knowledge, tools, and practices are important to know to enable active participation and critical engagement with our increasingly digitally-infused lives. He then uses the tools of educational design research to create examples for how we could get there. Currently, this involves researching and designing learning experiences and resources for data literacy, K-12 data science education, and artificial intelligence literacy for both students and teachers. He also has maintained a portfolio of research related to elementary computer science education, maker education, and science cognition. His research is most often done through research-practice partnerships and involves design, implementation, analysis, and continual revision of new learning experiences in actual learning settings (such as schools, districts, or libraries). Lee has co-authored multiple national reports for the National Research Council related to computing and data in education. His work has been featured in the New York Times, CNN, Forbes, Politico, and other national media outlets.
Lee completed his undergraduate studies at UC San Diego with emphasis in cognitive science, human computer interaction, and mathematics. He earned his doctorate in Learning Sciences at Northwestern University where he was supported for several years through a fellowship with the NSF-funded Center for Curriculum Materials in Science. Since leaving the midwest and beginning his professional academic career, he has received the National Science Foundation CAREER award, the Jan Hawkins Award, a post-doctoral fellowship from the National Academy of Education and the Spencer Foundation, and various best paper awards. His book, Learning Technologies and the Body (published by Routledge), is the first compendium of current research of embodied technologies for learning. With Abigail Phillips, he published, Reconceptualizing Libraries: Perspectives from the Information and Learning Sciences (2018). His most recent book, released in 2025, is Advancing Data Science Education in K-12. He is a past-president and elected fellow of the International Society of the Learning Sciences.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Manny's, 3092 16th Street, San Francisco, United States
USD 9.27 to USD 37.08
