This mid-year report summarizes teacher use of Colleague AI across 12 Washington State school districts from September 1 to December 31, 2025. Produced jointly by Colleague AI and AmplifyLearn.AI at the University of Washington, this report aggregates platform data and district-provided administrative records to provide an early look at how teachers engaged with AI during the first half of the 2025-26 school year. The districts vary in size from small districts with a few thousand students to large districts with up to thirty thousand students. The districts are rural, suburban, and urban. Only a subset of districts were able to provide mid-year administrative data, and findings that link teachers' use of Colleague AI to student characteristics should be interpreted as preliminary signals.
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@article{arxiv.2605.16277,
title = {Generative AI in K-12 Classrooms: A Midyear Implementation Report},
author = {Lief Esbenshade and Alex Liu and Michael Xiao and Zewei Tian and Min Sun and Zachary Zhang and Thomas Han and Yulia Lapicus and Kevin He},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.16277},
year = {2026}
}