WA-ACTE 2026 Summer Conference

It's 2026. You've been to workshops filled with AI demos, you've used a Claude to revise a lesson plan or given your students an assignment to build AI skills. It still doesn't feel like we're preparing our students for the world of AI that they're graduating into, even if ChatGPT keeps telling you your is plans are "absolutely right!" In this workshop you'll move past the 101 level skills and into the 200 level AI skills that you can use and teach your students: A working understanding of prompt engineering - how to get AI to actually do what you want Practical knowledge of context windows - why AI "forgets" things and how to work around it Experience using artifacts and structured outputs to make AI tools genuinely useful in your classroom A clear-eyed look at the "future skills" experts keep citing and why CTE teachers are already better positioned to teach them than anyone else