Make Learning Come AI-Live! Agentic AI-Powered Personas in the Inquiry-Driven Classroom

This professional learning program offers teachers from all disciplines, including Social Studies/History, ELA, STEM, and World Language, a hands-on opportunity to explore how generative artificial intelligence can transform inquiry-based instruction.

Participants will design AI-powered “agents” that students can interview as part of a dynamic learning experience. These agents might take the form of historical figures, literary characters, mathematicians, scientists, or personas encountered while traveling in a target-language region.

The session begins with an introduction to ElevenLabs, a cutting-edge, agentic AI tool, and a walkthrough of a sample inquiry-based lesson that leverages this technology to deepen student engagement and critical thinking.

Participants will:

• Design inquiry-based lessons where students ask real-time questions and receive contextual, content-rich answers.

• Learn how to use generative AI to transform inquiry-based instruction.

• Explore ElevenLabs AI voice technology for lifelike historical, literary, scientist, and mathematician personas.

• Explore a sample lesson demonstrating AI-enhanced student questioning and critical thinking.

• Receive guided support to design a customized, classroom-ready lesson for their discipline.

• Leave with an AI-generated character and an inquiry structure that promotes student-led questioning, evidence-based reasoning, and cross-disciplinary connections.

Why Administrators Will Love It:

• Supports district AI literacy initiatives and 21st-century skills.

• Encourages student-led questioning and evidence-based reasoning.

• Works across multiple content areas, maximizing training value.

• Promotes critical thinking, creativity, and cross-disciplinary connections.

Subject-Specific Examples:

📚 Social Studies & History

• Interview Eleanor Roosevelt on human rights.

• Debate Caesar on his military strategy.

• Ask Nelson Mandela about leadership and justice.

📖 Literature & Language Arts

• Question Macbeth about ambition.

• Discuss symbolism with Emily Dickinson.

• Interview Jay Gatsby on the American Dream.

🌍 World Languages & Culture

• Chat in Spanish with Don Quixote.

• Practice French with a Parisian tour guide.

• Ask a Japanese chef about regional cuisine.

🔬 Science

• Ask Marie Curie about her groundbreaking research.

• Consult with an AI biologist about climate change.

• Question Galileo on heliocentrism.

➗ Mathematics

• Solve geometry problems with Euclid.

• Explore probability with an AI statistician.

• Ask Ada Lovelace about early computer algorithms.

Continental breakfast will be provided!

Don’t miss this special opportunity to learn, create, and collaborate with your colleagues!

Cost: $169 for a single registrant. Each additional registration - $129/registrant.

Important: If you are paying by purchase order, please submit in advance of the workshop date to confirm Board of Education approval. Please note that all purchase orders should be issued to The Madison Institute, LLC (d.b.a. TMI Education) and emailed to support@tmieducation.com. If you prefer US mail, please mail to The Madison Institute, LLC, P.O. Box 922, Madison, NJ 07940.

Delivery Format: In-Person

Location: Ramapo College of New Jersey (RCNJ), Trustees Pavilion

Date/Time: December 9, 2025; 9:00 AM-1 PM

Presenter(s): Mr. Richard Panicucci, TMI Education CEO and SVP of Strategic Planning Division

Audience: All Grades PK-12 Teachers and Administrators

For more information, email support@tmieducation.com.