Welcome to the Leading and Learning with AI Podcast! This is the podcast where top K-12 education leaders and experts explore how AI is reshaping teaching, learning, and school leadership—one real story at a time. Hosted by Aaron Feuer, CEO and Co-Founder of Panorama Education, each episode offers a roadmap for implementing AI in your school or district, along with tools, lessons learned, and practical strategies you can bring to your team. You’ll hear directly from leaders applying AI to solve big challenges like chronic absenteeism, literacy gaps, and teacher burnout in ways that are safe and secure, personalized, and anchored in driving student outcomes. Wherever you are in your school or district’s AI journey, this show is your guide to impactful AI in K-12.

For many district and school leaders, the first step in implementing AI in their buildings is often the hardest. There’s so much curiosity about how it can be used to improve student experience and learning but how do we turn that curiosity into momentum in our schools and districts? Our guest today, Dr. Marcey Sorensen, is sharing how her district began the journey of implementing the use of AI throughout her district in an effective and intentional way.

In this episode, Dr. Marcey Sorensen, superintendent of La Joya ISD in Texas, is giving us an inside look at how she began utilizing AI throughout her district. She shares why identifying the pain points that AI can help solve within the district is a great starting point, how she got her staff to buy-in to utilizing AI at the beginning, and why she ensures that the AI tools that are used are in alignment with the needs and concerns within her district and classrooms. Dr. Sorensen is a wonderful example of how great leadership can help tackle real challenges in education by finding ways AI can support educators and improve the education for so many students.

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What does it really mean to make AI literacy engaging and practical for every teacher and student? As schools look for ways to integrate new technology, it’s easy to turn AI education into another add-on in the classroom, but when it’s truly embedded into each subject area, the impact is transformative. Today’s guest, Marty Creel from Code.org, shares how the right approach to AI can turn something “boring” into exciting, hands-on learning that helps students build essential knowledge and understanding.

In this episode, Marty Creel joins us to share his insight into what AI literacy should look like in today’s classrooms and why embedding it within content areas matters. He discusses the value of subject-specific AI, ways to make learning more engaging for students, the importance of accessible tools for all learners, and practical steps for system leaders to support responsible and effective AI adoption. He shares real feedback from teachers utilizing the Hour of AI activities, classroom stories like using Minecraft to teach the importance of training AI, and advice for school and district leaders who want to encourage thoughtful integration without overwhelming staff.

🎧Check out the full shownotes: http://www.panoramaed.com/podcast

Connect with Panorama Education:

• Visit our website
• Follow us on Instagram @panorama_education
• Follow us on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@panoramaeducation3485/podcasts
• Follow us on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/panorama-education/

Mentioned in this episode:

🎓Panoramic 2026: Purposeful AI, Lasting Student Impact is the free virtual summit where K–12 leaders and educators turn AI momentum into real student impact. 🔗 Reserve your spot: http://pan-ed.com/panoramic26-pod

🔗 Reserve your spot: pan-ed.com/panoramic26-pod