AI Should Support Teachers, Not Replace Them with Joy Delizo-Osborne of Student Achievement Partners

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So the fact that what comes out of AI is just procedural doesn't matter. When we start to think about an AI pro- program as the full teaching experience or learning experience for a student, I think that's where things start to break, right? Just how well is it tuned to do all of the things that a teacher with lots of experience, tenure, and knowledge of just, like, kids would do?

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Thanks, Alex. Thanks for having me.

I am so excited to speak to you. I-- You know, Student Achievement Partners is a really fascinating organization, and it-- I think it, it plays a really important role in actually making sure technology and standards are actually making a difference in classrooms. Uh, give us an overview of what Student Achievement Partners is and what your work looks like on the ground.

Totally. Thank you. SAP is an amazing organization. I've been a part of it for the last seven years, but it was actually started back in 2011 by the writers of the Common Core State Standards. So the primary writers of the literacy and math standards, K-12, came together, and as they thought about how they wanted to shift and improve instruction across this nation, and then now even globally, truly, they wanted to bring evidence into the conversation about best practices and instruction, and then by extension, curriculum and other materials that enter the classroom. Over a decade later, SAP is still doing that work. Our historical website is Achieve the Core. It's where you can find lots of information about the math