Applications Open: 2025 Information and Artificial Intelligence Teacher Advisory Council

The Pulitzer Center's Information and Artificial Intelligence (AI) initiatives support journalism and audience engagement on in-depth AI accountability stories that examine governments' and corporations’ uses of predictive and surveillance technologies to guide decisions in policing, medicine, social welfare, the criminal justice system, hiring, and more.

Information & AI Teacher Advisory Council

This K-12 engagement program equips educators with resources to engage with our in-depth reporting on information and artificial intelligence and apply the questions of AI ethics and accountability raised by the reporting to their everyday work in the classroom. The program recognizes that, as a target audience for many AI tools, educators and the institutions they work for can offer meaningful insights as communities work to address the challenges and opportunities in AI development. This program is designed to provide educators with support developing their own awareness of AI accountability and directly engaging in conversations about AI ethics in the education space.

Council members will participate in six virtual evening workshops to explore underreported news stories about information and artificial intelligence. Through these workshops they will connect with Pulitzer Center-supported journalists reporting on AI accountability, and use Pulitzer Center education frameworks as tools in their collaborative discussions about the opportunities and challenges for K-12 classrooms seeking to engage with questions about AI accountability. 

As part of the workshops, teachers will use data from audience research, toolkits made by the previous AI Teacher Advisory Council, and reporting from the Pulitzer Center’s AI Accountability Network to develop a series of professional learning workshops that engage other educators in their communities with resources and reporting on AI accountability. Educators will facilitate the AI Accountability Teacher Training Series they develop as part of the advisory council at the beginning of the 2025-2026 school year, documenting learning and impact from the educators engaged in training, and ultimately presenting their learning in a public-facing showcase in fall 2025. 

Training materials created through the program will be integrated into learning modules published on the Pulitzer Center website as a resource for other educators.

Council members will engage with the following guiding questions:

• What roles have schools and education spaces played in the history of AI development? How does academia cultivate and inform questions about AI accountability and ethics?
• What role can reporting on information and AI accountability play in helping teachers and students better understand and engage with AI technologies? 
• What strategies do journalists use to question, investigate, and advance the conversation about AI accountability, and how can educators leverage these strategies to inform classroom practice and empower students’ voices?
• How can we best cultivate productive learning spaces for educators to engage in dialogue about the challenges of AI while centering AI accountability and AI ethics?
• How can teachers and students provide critical feedback to journalists reporting underreported information and AI stories?

This program seeks to extend the impact of the AI Accountability Network by developing resources that support classroom conversations about the use of predictive and surveillance technologies to guide decisions that impact a range of global communities.

Applications are due Friday, May 16, 2025.

Upon successful completion of the program, Council members will be provided with:

• A $600 stipend (made in two payments of $300 disbursed in July and September)
• A Pulitzer Center AI Council Member digital badge
• A certificate for 20 hours of professional development

Key Dates and Requirements:

Educators will be expected to...

1. Attend the following virtual workshops:
   
   Tuesday, June 10: Workshop 1, 6:00-8:00pm EDT 
   Tuesday, June 17: Workshop 2 , 6:00-8:00pm EDT 
   Tuesday, June 24: Workshop 3, 6:00-8:00pm EDT 
   Tuesday, July 1: Workshop 4, 6:00-8:00pm EDT 
   Tuesday, July 8 : Workshop 5, 6:00-8:00pm EDT 
   Tuesday, July 15: Workshop 6, 6:00-8:00pm EDT 
    
2. (Between July 15 and September 1, 2025) Host a training workshop for at least 20 educators in their school/district implementing resources developed through the program and engaging educators with Pulitzer Center journalists reporting on artificial intelligence and technology.
3. Collaborate with Council members to develop public-facing resources to engage with AI and technology reporting.
4. Participate in a virtual showcase of Council work and impact in November 2025. 

Eligibility Requirements:

This program is open to all educators working with K-12 students and educators in public, charter, independent, and alternative schools in the United States and U.S. territories. Applicants must be currently working as a K-12 educator and/or administrator and must be planning to continue their work in their current school or district through the end of 2025.

Applicants should be able to provide confirmation of their ability to facilitate the AI Accountability Teacher Training with at least 20 other educators in their school/district either through the nature of their role (principal, instructional coach, etc.) or by having all relevant school and district leaders sign our commitment to participate form for submission with the application.

Because all sessions will be held virtually, applicants must have stable internet access and a computer with a webcam and microphone.

Educators who are interested in applying to this Council should complete the AI Accountability: Education Interest Survey. We encourage educators to share the survey with other teachers and administrators in their network.

The Pulitzer Center is committed to making real, measurable progress on diversity, equity, and inclusion in all of our programs and partnerships. Please review our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion statement for more information on our commitments. Educators from historically marginalized backgrounds, and/or educators who are teaching students from historically marginalized backgrounds, are strongly encouraged to apply.

If you have additional questions, please contact us by emailing [email protected]. We look forward to hearing from you!