In A Teacher’s Guide to Using AI, Meenoo Rami takes a user-friendly, human-centered stance while offering immediately useful tips, ideas, and strategies for using AI to increase efficiency as a creative teaching professional. In the same breath, Rami carefully considers ethics, equity, and criticality while laying out frameworks, ideas, and examples that can guide students to become empowered digital citizens in the age of AI.
—Katie Burrows-Stone, High School English Teacher, Fennville, Michigan
A Teacher’s Guide to Using AI nudges us to look beyond the binary of good and evil, to the nuanced reality of this arrival technology and the opportunity we have to shape its future. We are asked to look within—to trust our intuition, challenge our lens of equity, engage with empathy and curiosity, and expand our capacity for growth. This is a well-researched and accessible journey that offers relevant steps to teaching students about AI, practical what-if scenarios with detailed guidance, and experimental prompts to enhance an inclusive learning experience.
—Christina Dominique-Pierre, Middle School Library Director, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Rami’s guide takes a comprehensive approach to the complex and sometimes controversial topic of AI in the classroom. Rather than listing tricks and tips and “magic” solutions, she provides terminology, context, and cautionary considerations paired with guided inquiry. In the chapters about using AI with students, she makes the important choice of prioritizing teaching students about AI before putting it in their hands. The balanced and thoughtful approach mixed with actionable advice and strategies is hard to find in an AI guide for educators, and it makes this one stand out.
—Mary Beth Hertz, High School Art Teacher and Author, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Drawing from her decades of experience in the classroom and as an educational technologist, Meenoo Rami offers both practical advice and numerous prompts to help educators—and their students—engage with AI. However, she is not simply an AI evangelist. Instead, Rami’s critical, creative strategies will coach her readers as they interrogate potential biases, evaluate outputs, and employ AI in measured, ethical, and appropriate ways.
—Troy Hicks, Professor of English and Education and Author, Lansing, Michigan
A must-read for educators exploring the promise of AI in the classroom. With real-world insights, tested strategies, and powerful recommendations from educators across the country, this book serves as an essential guide.
—William Hite, CEO KnowledgeWorks and former Superintendent of the School District of Philadelphia
I’ve known Meenoo since the early days of Minecraft Education, where her vision helped shape a global movement. In this timely guide, she brings the same clarity and courage to the evolving world of AI. This book is a warm, honest companion for educators navigating the unknown. It reminds us that AI can empower, but only if we remain the architects of our classrooms.
—Kyriakos Koursaris, Technology Integration Specialist, Lisbon, Portugal
In A Teacher’s Guide to Using AI, Meenoo Rami bridges the worlds of education and technology with empathy and wisdom. She empowers teachers to see AI not as a replacement, but as a tool to reclaim time, spark creativity, and deepen connection. Meenoo honors the soul of teaching while helping us navigate one of the most transformative shifts of our time. Her words remind us that AI doesn’t diminish our humanity but rather magnifies what’s most powerful about it: our compassion, creativity, and care for students. Every educator who’s ever felt both awe and anxiety about the future will find comfort and strength here.
—Tanisha Lee, Middle School Language Arts Teacher, Arvada, Colorado
Rami offers teachers a clear-eyed perspective on how to approach AI in the classroom. Her practical advice, combined with insightful research into how teachers are currently discussing AI with students and using it in their own work, will help both novice and expert teachers navigate the uncertain, ever-changing landscape around AI in education.
—Molly Montgomery, High School ELA Teacher, Albany, California
This book is a timely call to action for educators to take the lead in shaping how AI enters our classrooms. With clarity and conviction, Meenoo affirms teachers to trust their professional knowledge and humanity in guiding this emerging field. By breaking down the lingo and history of AI, she empowers readers to engage with confidence, curiosity, and care. Each chapter reminds us of our agency as educators—that it is the teacher, not the tool, who remains the most important force in education.
—Marina Pisto, Elementary Teacher, White Plains, NY
This is a book all teachers need right now. Meenoo gives specific guidance for both the teacher-facing use of AI and the studentfacing use, and she doesn’t ever shy away from the big ethical questions or the potential pitfalls. What this book gives teachers is power—power to understand what AI is and is not; power to use AI to ease the increasing demands of teaching; power to teach students how to be critical users of AI. We do not have to passively sit by as AI surges into our profession. We can have knowledge, choice, and agency; we can model for our students how to be informed leaders around AI.
—Marilyn Pryle, Director of Professional Learning and Author, East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
Meenoo Rami shows us how to use AI without losing our minds or our humanity. In A Teacher’s Guide to Using AI, Meenoo challenges the noise, cuts through the hype, and helps us build with purpose. Her genius as a pedagogue and project-based learning designer shines through every page, offering educators clear, doable strategies to bring AI into the classroom with confidence and care. It’s the kind of help teachers actually need, right now.
—Samuel Reed III, High School Reading and Writing Teacher, Philadelphia, PA
A Teacher’s Guide to Using AI stands apart in today’s crowded AI landscape. Expertly blending extensive research, compelling historical context, and thoughtful exploration of law and ethics, Rami delivers a truly comprehensive guide for all educators. Featuring insights from respected educators and leaders around the world, this book is not just informative, it’s transformative. A must-read for anyone seeking to understand and responsibly lead in the age of AI in education.
—Glenn Robbins, Superintendent and Author, Brigantine, New Jersey
Nuanced, thoughtful, and very well researched, this book gives teachers the direction and guidance they need to navigate the unknown terrain of AI in education. Rami’s calm and rational approach suggests helpful ways teachers can use AI in their own work and then extends to what to teach students about AI. Filled with examples from classroom teachers, Rami realistically balances the need to keep humans at the center of the educational process, while also preparing students for the technological future they are heading for.
—Jen Roberts, National Board Certified High School English Teacher and Author, San Diego, California
Meenoo invites teachers to see what AI could look like in schools, highlighting their own agency to determine when and how to use AI in their own practice and to teach their students about AI. At the same time, Meenoo gently argues that teachers must engage—for the sake of their students.
—Kristen Hawley Turner, Professor and Director of Teacher Education, Madison, New Jersey
Generative AI arrived in our classrooms and many of us found ourselves at sea. Rami’s A Teacher’s Guide to Using AI provides the map and the compass to find our way to safe harbor. It centers the very human experiences of teaching and learning, holding them sacred, while providing practical tips to navigate these shifting waters.
—Andrea Zellner, Learning Design Consultant, Waterford, Michigan
