Key Takeaways:

• AACTE released a new AI Framework for Educator Preparation to help colleges and universities prepare future educators to use AI effectively and responsibly.
• The framework treats AI literacy as a professional teaching skill, emphasizing that educators need more than technical knowledge to make informed decisions about AI in the classroom.
• The framework focuses on four areas: ethical and policy guardrails, classroom implementation, cognitive impacts and advocacy, and professional expertise and human judgment.
• Human judgment remains central to AI use in education, with educators retaining responsibility for instructional decisions, student relationships, ethical reasoning, and culturally responsive teaching.