A new survey of 1,000 teachers turns the narrative about how teachers are responding to ChatGPT on its head. The results suggest that most educators have shifted their initial view of ChatGPT and generative AI and are now using the tool in their classrooms.

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Romy Drucker is the director of the Walton Family Foundation’s K-12 Education Program, which focuses on supporting communities and families to ensure students thrive academically and socially and find their unique path to the careers and lives they choose. Even before working at the foundation, Romy spent 15 years working to achieve the organization’s goals. In 2015, Romy founded The 74, an award-winning nonprofit news organization focused on education. She also held several senior leadership positions in the New York City Department of Education, improving the quality of education for the city’s 1.1 million students. Romy graduated cum laude from Yale College with a B.A. in Literature and Spanish language; she earned her M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Joe Welch is a National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Certified Teacher who teaches eighth-grade U.S. history at North Hills Middle School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He has taught within the North Hills School District for 15 years, previously serving as seventh and eighth-grade team leader for over ten years. Welch holds a Bachelor of Science in secondary education, Bachelor of Arts in history, and Instructional Technology Specialist Certification from Duquesne University. He earned a Master of Arts in Teaching from the California University of Pennsylvania, where he also earned his Pennsylvania principal certification. He was honored as National History Teacher of the Year by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.