983: AI in the Classroom: How a Top Elementary School Is Doing It Right, with Principal Traci Walker Griffith

My guest today took a public school that was about to be shut down and turned it into the number one school in Boston, and AI is her latest secret weapon. In a long-overdue episode on AI for supporting children’s education, hear directly from Principal Traci Walker Griffith how her teachers have been experimenting with AI in classrooms, what works, what doesn’t work, and what’s next for kids as LLMs continue to improve.

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In this episode you will learn:

• (03:38) The Eliot School’s transformation from closure list to number one in Boston
• (08:54) How the school began using Claude for AI-assisted writing feedback
• (18:14) How younger students benefit from AI behind the scenes
• (23:46) How older students interact with AI directly
• (41:11) Three prompt engineering failure modes and how to fix them
• (55:29) Responding to the Brookings report on AI risks in education