Teacher professional development
AI that teaches, not AI that does the work
Your students can already get AI to write the essay, solve the problem, and finish the lab writeup in seconds. The tools are in your building and in every student's pocket. The real problem is what happens to the student: on its default setting, AI finishes the work, and the thinking the assignment was supposed to build never happens.
The workshop
A hands-on professional development workshop, two to four hours, on-site at your building. It teaches your teachers to flip AI from doing the work to coaching the student through it. Teachers work in the tool they actually have in front of them, whether that is Copilot, Gemini, or MagicSchool, not a demo account they will never see again. The method is about how you instruct the AI, not which tool you bought, and it gets more out of the licenses you already pay for before anyone spends a dollar on something new.
Teachers leave with the method and a workbook they keep, not a list of prompts they forget by Friday.
What your teachers walk out able to do
- Set up the AI tools your district already owns so they back the teacher up instead of handing students answers.
- Build a guided assistant that walks a student through a problem instead of giving the answer away.
- Design assignments that use AI to deepen thinking rather than replace it.
- Tell the difference between a student thinking alongside AI and a student handing it the work.
What a pilot looks like
Who is in the room. A working group of about five to ten teachers from one building. Your technology director or curriculum lead is welcome in the room, and usually should be.
What happens. One hands-on block, about 75 minutes, on-site. Teachers work in the AI tools your district has already approved. Nothing is installed on district devices and no new platform is introduced.
What I need from you. A room, a date, and the tools your teachers already use. I do not request student data and I do not ask for access to district systems.
What you get back. The method, a workbook your teachers keep, and a written account of what happened in your building.
What it costs. Ask, because it depends on whether a pilot slot is open. When one is, it runs at no cost in exchange for the right to write up what happened, with your approval on anything published and your district unnamed if you prefer. When one is not, you get a plain number before anyone commits to anything.
Ask to see the ninety-second version first. The same question, in the same tool, under two setups. One does the work for the student. The other walks them through it. That contrast is the entire workshop.
The software, separately. Apart from the workshop, we build a study coach that runs from a USB stick and holds the teacher's own answer key in code outside the model. It runs on the machine it is plugged into, creates no student accounts, and asks for no student records. Everything we have measured about it, including the runs where it failed, is on the bench. Patent pending.
On compliance. We will describe exactly what the software does and does not do, in writing, to anyone in your district who asks. What that means for your obligations is your district's determination to make, not ours.
Who you call. Ron Hampton. (513) 278-7137, ron@vettechhomefront.com. You reach the person who does the work.
How we know it works: the bench
We also build a study coach that runs from a USB stick, loaded with the teacher's own lessons, and we test it against the published research on AI tutors handing students answers. The results are on the bench, including the runs where it failed. If you want to read the raw ledgers before you let anything near your students, ask and you get them.
Your AI policy made a promise. This is the training that delivers it.
Ohio law required traditional public school districts, community schools, and STEM schools to adopt an AI-use policy by July 1, 2026. The policy is the easy half. This workshop is the implementation: the human training that turns the words on paper into what actually happens in classrooms.
For district workshops, VetTech uses only tools the district identifies as approved. The workshop does not require a new platform, and VetTech does not request student data. Title II, Part A can support qualifying professional development, but allowability depends on the district's plan and federal grant rules. The district must make the final funding determination. VetTech does not guarantee eligibility.
Career-tech too, not just core classrooms
The method works the same in an English class and a welding lab. For career-tech programs, Ron co-builds guided AI tutors side by side with your instructors: they bring the trade knowledge, he brings the AI instruction layer, and the tutor that makes a student reason out why the weld failed is the thing you build together.
Who delivers it
Ron Hampton. Fourteen years in the Army as a Cavalry Scout, trained in adult-learning instruction at the Army's NCO Academy, with a completed Computer Science degree, and local to Bethel. He brings the AI implementation layer. Your educators bring the classroom. The workshop is the handshake between the two.
Bring this to your district
Call or text (513) 278-7137, or email ron@vettechhomefront.com
Ask about pilot availability
