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Making AI clear, human, and actionable.

Rachelle helps educators, leaders, and organizations move beyond the headlines to understand what AI changes, what people need, and how to lead responsibly.

  • 500+AI presentations
  • Since 2017leading AI learning
  • Globalin-person and virtual audiences
Dr. Rachelle Dené Poth delivering a keynote from the IETC stage
Ideas that meet the moment.Grounded in education, legal insight, research, and classroom practice.

A speaker with uncommon range

Where education, AI, and the law meet

As an attorney, educator, researcher, author, and active classroom practitioner, Rachelle brings multiple lenses to every stage. Audiences leave with a clearer understanding of the issues, practical ideas they can use, and questions that lead to better decisions.

Featured keynotes & sessions

Timely questions. Practical direction.

Every session can be customized for leaders, educators, students, professional associations, businesses, or multidisciplinary teams.

Keynote

Human-Centered AI Leadership: Aligning Policy, Practice, and Innovation

Move from uncertainty to action with practical strategies for aligning policy, supporting staff, and implementing AI responsibly. Through leadership scenarios and collaborative planning, participants identify next steps that connect digital citizenship, academic integrity, data privacy, family communication, and student readiness with district priorities.

Workshop

AI Literacy Across the Curriculum: Strategies for K–12 Integration

Explore why students need AI literacy and how to integrate it meaningfully across grade levels and subject areas. Participants examine practical resources, create lessons and curriculum materials, collaborate with peers, and leave with ready-to-use ideas that spark curiosity and empower students as informed, responsible users of AI.

Keynote

Humanity + Innovation

Connect HI + AI to keep relationships, learner agency, and human judgment at the center of meaningful innovation.

Framework

The THRIVE Framework

A human-centered path for connecting emerging technology, reflection, risk-taking, and sustained professional growth.

Interactive session

Elevating Instruction for Diverse Learners: Evidence-Based, Culturally Responsive Methods

Explore how educators can build on students' cultural identities, apply Universal Design for Learning (UDL), and remove barriers to learning. Discover evidence-based strategies, including explicit instruction, modeling, and formative assessment, alongside practical ways to use AI for differentiation, scaffolding, and student success.

Designed around your audience

From an energizing keynote to sustained learning

Conference keynotes60–90 minute sessionsHalf-day workshopsFull-day workshopsLeadership briefingsMulti-day professional learningVirtual programsCustomized experiences

Selected appearances

State, national, and international audiences

AMLE · ASCD · BETT · CUE · FETC · ICE · IDEAcon · IETC · ISTE · Learning & the Brain · MACUL · MASSCUE · Microsoft E2 · NETA · OETC · PETE&C · TCEA · VSTE

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Share your event, audience, and goals. Rachelle will help shape a session that fits the moment and moves people forward.

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