Welcome from the Founder

You signed up for this course because something about AI in education is not adding up — either the pace, the noise, the policy pressure, the classroom reality, or all four at once. This course is designed to give you a working framework, not a hype tour.

I am Dr. Tennyson Johnson. Before founding TechEd Analyst, I spent over two decades in CTE and IT — teaching, designing curriculum, leading instructional teams, sitting on curriculum committees, and running the practical work of programs that have to deliver real outcomes for real students. I built this course out of the conversations I keep having with CTE educators who feel ahead of administration on this topic and behind industry, and who do not have a clear next step in front of them.

This is the longest course on the platform — seven modules, twenty-eight lessons, roughly fifteen hours of structured work. The depth is intentional. AI integration is not something you can address with a one-hour PD session and a handout. It involves curriculum decisions, classroom practice, ethics and academic integrity, credentialing, employer alignment, and your own professional development as the educator leading it.

Across the course you will work through what changed in 2024-2026, the difference between generative and agentic AI, how AI is restructuring entry-level work, how to design classroom and lab experiences that prepare students for the actual jobs they will enter, the ethics and integrity questions you will face, the pathways and credentials worth investing in, and a capstone where you build the portfolio of artifacts that demonstrate your program's response.

The work is paced for educators with full teaching loads. You can move through it at your own speed. Each module ends with something concrete you can take into your classroom or your next department meeting — not a worksheet, an actual artifact you can use.

One note up front. This course will not tell you that AI is going to be fine for your students if you just adopt the right tool. It will also not tell you that AI is going to ruin everything if you do not lock it down. The honest framing is harder: AI is shifting what entry-level work looks like in the fields your students enter, and your job as a CTE educator is to prepare them for the work that exists when they graduate, not the work that existed when you started teaching. That preparation is doable. It is also deliberate. This course is the deliberate version.

Let us get into it.

— Dr. Tennyson Johnson