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This is the third installment in the “1,000 days of AI” series. I have a front row seat for a change of K-12 education. AI Education Consultant Developing the School District AI strategy and seeing something remarkable. This change did not come from the curriculum committees or the federal mandate, but not from the students who, as usual, refused to wait for permission.
While the teachers argued whether Chat GPT had formed a fraud, 17 -year -old High School Zach Yadgi created an AI app that generated $ 1.12 million in monthly revenue. He started coding at the age of seven, initially created a gaming website to ignore his elementary school firewall. Up to 16, he had already sold his first company, 000 100,000.
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Fact of Fact: AI has already changed everything
Within a thousand days, Chat GPT has basically challenged traditional K-12 education. According to Act Research, 70 % Of the high school students, 2023-24 used AI tools, which was 58 % last year. Pew Research Confirms the use of Chat GPT for school works Double From 2023 to 2024. But these figures are missing out on the original story: Students are not only using AI to complete assignments – they are using it to make a business, force schools to develop AI policies that balance innovation with the use of AI responsible in education.
The traditional model assumed that the knowledge was very low and the teachers were gatekeepers. Ai scattered both assumptions overnight. Now every student has unlimited tuition, quick skills and access to tools that transform ideas into products, not in years, but in hours. The question is not whether students should learn business – they are already.
From high school hallways to a series of revenue
The most successful young entrepreneurs started as an intraperneur in the school system. High school students across the country are turning their AI skills into a real business. Students across the country are selling AI-generated study guides monthly at 50- $ 500.
The irony is not lost on me: adults who say fraud, these students say market research. Teachers label the shortcut, investors recognize as the least viable product. In my work helping in the districts that make the AI ​​policy for schools, I have seen how these business students actually exemplify the best methods of AI education – they are solving real problems with real tools.
Intraperneees within our schools
Not all innovations are out of the school walls. Students’ intravenators have created AIThan programs for struggling colleagues, building attendance apps for their schools and developing mental health chat boats for advisers. They see school issues as a product opportunity, changing their education while living.
Teachers are also becoming intraperneous. Forward thinking teachers use personalized learning pathways, automate grading to spend more time with students and make tools spread across the district. These educators eliminate the innovative requirements and innovation of students, which create a place for experiments within the current structure, while contributing to the development of the AI ​​curriculum for K-12.
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Federal framework meets the lower level reality
In April 2025, President Trump signed “To advance artificial intelligence for American youth“Establishing the White House Task Force on AI Education. Executive Order creates the Presidential AI challenge to” encourage and highlight the achievements of students and teachers in AI “.
Significantly, the Presidential AI Challenge calls for students to “use AI to tackle the challenges of the community”, confirming what the student is working with businessmen. This framework emphasizes that AI’s education should “investigate curiosity and creativity”, but students are not preparing to participate – they are already guiding. It provides federal support that modern schools need to transform detention into hackets in incubation and homework, and set the best methods of new AI’s new education on the way.
3 practical steps right now for schools
1. Implement the “Innovation Hours” associated with the Presidential AI challenge:
Dedicate weekly to students to work on AI projects that are meant to deal with real society issues. Not only do students create groups. Let them pursue not only grades but users. Students will be ready when the presidential AI challenge is launched in the schools. This approach to K-12 for the development of the AI ​​curriculum transforms the theory into a practical form.
2. The concentration of change in incubation:
Every student “caught” using AI creatively, should be reproduced, should not be punished. Create an “AI Innovation Council” where rulers become governors. Prepare them your school’s AI policy and teach AI literature to younger students. The White House Task Force has called for students to educate students-make your “problem of students” solve your problem. This is the use of AI responsible in education.
3. Create the intrapernewarish pathway:
Establish a formal identity for students who improve school operations by AI. Give the building tools course credit that the school actually uses. Partnership with local business for real -world projects. Every pizza shop and dental office needs AI assistance. Your students can provide it while earning money and credit. These routes should be central to any school District AI strategy.
Next 1,000 days: big challenges, big opportunities
The first one thousand days proved that students can use AI. The next 1,000 days will prove that they can guide it. Since the AI ​​becomes more powerful, the distance between the students and the help of the students will expand to the distance without them. Chat GPT, auxiliary teachers and business parents will build companies. A student with limited access and punitive policies will be lagging behind – not for years, but by races.
The implications of mental health are surprising. When 14 -year -old children can make a million dollars business, what happens to people who can’t? When AI can do homework in seconds, how do we measure learning? These are not the philosophical questions of the era. They are immediate challenges that need an anxious approach to developing an AI policy for schools.
The next one thousand days, local students of AI will see the manpower entering. I can’t wait to see how they give new shapes to the entire industries. When teenage young people arrive with more AI experience than senior executives, the concept of “entry level” will dissolve.
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Business
Schools that flourish will not be those with AI’s best policies or detection tools. Those will be the people who will cultivate the intravenose – students and teachers who change the system from the inside. Each student who develops a device to help a classmate is an intraperneur. Each teacher experimenting with AI to improve the results is an intraperneur. Enables every administrator of innovation space space.
After a thousand days of chatting in K-12 education, a truth came out: Students who accepted AI as a creation tool rather than completion, are forming a future economy. They are intravenous -changing schools inside and businesses make alternatives.
The next 1,000 days will be more complicated. AI will be more powerful, accessible and necessary. Students who now begin construction will have opportunities for the benefits. For teachers, parents and policy makers who seek guidance from the AI ​​key speaker for education or to establish the best methods of AI education, the path forward is clear: Accept the intravenver, enable business capacity, and expect change. The federal government has provided framework through the Presidential AI challenge. It is time for local action.
Children are not fine – they are already ahead. For the next one thousand days, the question is not whether students will use AI to change education and economy. They will do. The question is, will we help them improve them or will we see the construction around us?
The “AI’s 1,000 Days” is coming next to the series: Legal AI change – where Nazir meets the algorithm, and why your next lawyer can be AI who passed the bar exam on his first attempt.