Everything you want to know about EducAIte

EducAIte is a K-12 AI fluency, safety, and governance company that offers professional development workshops for educators and school leaders, a 9-part AI Policy Framework, and a school-grade AI platform that teaches students to think with AI rather than use it as a shortcut.

EducAIte was founded by Erica Bishaf and Campbell Schafer. Our team's credentials span the full picture: from a Master's in Education and 20 years supporting students and staff to degrees from UChicago Booth's Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence and Kellogg. We also bring a combined 15 years of consulting and building AI-driven solutions. EducAIte offers both the instructional expertise and the strategic business experience to help your school implement AI the right way.

EducAIte serves K-12 schools and districts, including teachers, instructional coaches, curriculum directors, school administrators, superintendents, and school board members.

Most AI training is just a how-to on tools. EducAIte is a full-scale institutional strategy. Our workshops balance classroom differentiation with high-level governance and parent communication seamlessly. We root every workshop in hands-on practice, same-day classroom transfer, and the belief that pedagogy and AI fluency must exist together to be effective. Our team brings both deep instructional expertise and real-world AI strategy experience — a combination you won't find anywhere else.

The EducAIte platform is a school-grade AI environment that replaces consumer tools like ChatGPT and Gemini with a Socratic, scaffolded chat interface. It teaches students prompt engineering and critical thinking while giving teachers full visibility into every student interaction.

Unlike consumer AI tools, EducAIte never gives students direct answers. It uses Socratic questioning to guide thinking, coaches students on prompt engineering, and alerts teachers when students are struggling or relying too heavily on AI.

Teachers can see every prompt a student submits, not just their final work. The platform aggregates prompt patterns to help teachers identify misconceptions, learning gaps, and signs of over-reliance on AI.

The platform uses a tiered alert system that routes sensitive prompts to the appropriate staff member based on severity, such as a counselor, administrator, or safety officer, and maintains an audit log for accountability.

EducAIte connects to your school's preferred LLM. The EducAIte platform provides the school-grade governance layer on top.

The platform is currently in development, with a pilot-ready MVP coming soon. Schools can book a demo to learn more and get on the waitlist.

Yes. The platform is explicitly designed to be equitable for neurodiverse learners and underrepresented student populations, including adjustable reading levels and scaffolding tailored to individual needs and all learning types.

EducAIte offers a 10-workshop professional development series organized into three tracks: Classroom Tools and Management, Policy and Leadership, and Community and Operations.

Both. Schools can book individual workshops or the full series, and mix and match across categories.

Each workshop is available in a half-day (3.5 hours) or full-day (6 hours) format and can be customized to your school's needs.

No prior AI experience is required. The workshops are designed to meet educators where they are, with hands-on activities and same-day classroom transfer.

Topics include AI collaboration for educators, assessment redesign for the AI era, prompt engineering, reading student prompts, academic integrity, embedding AI literacy across the curriculum, differentiated instruction, parent communication, school leader governance, and AI and school security.

Yes. Several workshops are designed specifically for school leaders, including Workshop 9 (Responsible AI for School Leaders: Governance, Liability, and Policy) and Workshop 6 (Teaching AI on Purpose), which is built for curriculum directors and superintendents.

Yes. Workshop 1 (Collaborating with AI) and Workshop 3 (Prompt Engineering for Educators) can be adapted for student audiences.

No. Schools can book individual workshops or the full series independently of the platform. Many schools start with the workshop series to build educator fluency, then move to the platform when they are ready.

Yes. Every workshop is customized to your school and individual needs. Half-day (3.5 hrs) or full-day (6 hrs) options are available per workshop.

EducAIte's proprietary 9-part AI Policy Framework helps schools and districts build AI governance policies that are practical, defensible, and usable by teachers and administrators. It covers everything from guiding principles to acceptable use, academic integrity, data governance, and international alignment.

Start with your school's values, not a list of rules. A durable AI policy needs to define what you believe about AI in learning before it defines what is or isn't allowed. From there, you'll need to address acceptable use (which tools, under what conditions), academic integrity, data privacy, and how the policy will be communicated to students, parents, and staff. EducAIte has a proprietary 9-part AI Policy Framework that we work through collaboratively with districts to build policies that are practical, defensible, and actually usable by teachers and administrators. Reach out to learn more.

A strong K-12 AI acceptable use policy should cover approved tools, COPPA and FERPA compliance, PII rules, AI disclosure norms for students, grade-level distinctions, and consequences for policy violations. EducAIte's framework provides a structured template schools can customize.

Rather than blanket bans, effective AI academic integrity policies use a tiered approach that defines the spectrum from prohibited AI use to encouraged AI use, includes clear assignment-level guidance, and builds in proactive assignment design that makes violations less likely. We also encourage teaching students to cite the LLM they used in their work, just as they would cite any other source. Using AI without disclosing it is no different from using any other undisclosed source: citing it is academic honesty. A clear, honest policy is the foundation. Without it, teachers are inconsistent, students are confused, and the conversation with parents is impossible.

Yes. EducAIte's workshops, platform, and documentation are designed to align with the major federal initiatives currently funding K-12 AI education, including the U.S. Department of Education AI Supplemental Priority (effective May 13, 2026), the LIFT AI Act, CREATE AI Act, RAISE Act, and the April 2025 Executive Order on AI Education. Schools partnering with us can demonstrate competitive priority on discretionary grant applications.

Key federal funding sources include the U.S. Department of Education's AI Supplemental Priority (discretionary grants across all department programs, effective May 13, 2026), the LIFT AI Act (NSF-funded grants for AI literacy curriculum and teacher training), the CREATE AI Act (access to AI tools and infrastructure for underserved schools), and the RAISE Act (state standards development for AI in K-12). The April 2025 Executive Order also directs federal agencies to identify discretionary grant mechanisms for K-12 AI education.

EducAIte provides grant-ready implementation plans and impact frameworks mapped to specific federal priority criteria, prompt audit logs and tiered alert records for grant reporting, and equity-focused design documentation demonstrating commitment to underrepresented learners.

EducAIte's offerings align with the U.S. Department of Education's AI Supplemental Priority (effective May 13, 2026), the LIFT AI Act (H.R. 5584), CREATE AI Act (H.R. 2385), RAISE Act (S. 2740), and the April 2025 Executive Order on AI Education. Schools partnering with us can demonstrate competitive priority on discretionary grant applications.

Yes. EducAIte is built to comply with both FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) and COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act). We take student data privacy seriously, and our platform is designed with the protections K-12 schools require. We are happy to walk your district's legal or technology team through our data practices as part of the procurement process.

Student data privacy is foundational to how EducAIte is built, and the platform is designed for FERPA and COPPA compliance. We do not sell student data, and all prompt activity is stored securely and accessible only to authorized school staff. Contact us to discuss data handling specifics with your district's technology or legal team.

The platform's Socratic scaffolding design means the AI never produces a final answer for students to copy. Every interaction requires the student to think, respond, and build on AI prompts rather than simply receive output. We also encourage schools to teach students to cite the AI tools they use, treating AI disclosure as a matter of academic honesty rather than a prohibited shortcut.

Pricing is customized based on the number of workshops, format (half-day vs. full-day), audience size, and district needs. Contact EducAIte to discuss options.

You can book a demo at educaitelearning.com to start a conversation with the EducAIte team. Many schools begin with one or two workshops and expand from there.

EducAIte works with both individual schools and full districts, and can tailor its engagement accordingly.