REPORT • 2026 • by Classrooms of Belonging & AI Brain Trust at Beyond100K, with the ISP’s Jennifer Burris contributing.
A future for education shaped by AI won’t be determined by technology alone. It will be shaped by the teachers, students, and systems deciding how.
Artificial intelligence has arrived in classrooms faster than the systems designed to support teachers. Every day, educators are making high-stakes decisions about when AI deepens learning, when it undermines it, and how it can foster, not replace, the human relationships that make belonging possible.
Drawing on teacher empathy interviews, emerging research, and collaborative sensemaking with leaders across education, this report offers one of the field’s deepest looks yet at how STEM teachers are navigating this moment and what the rest of us can learn from them.