We invite educators supporting student instruction in grades K-12 to apply to be a members of this year's Information and AI Teacher Advisory Council.
Program Description
This K-12 engagement program equips educators with resources to utilize our in-depth reporting on Information and Artificial Intelligence as a tool that informs critical conversations around questions of AI ethics and accountability in their learning communities. The program recognizes that, as target audiences for many AI tools, educators and students can offer meaningful contributions to the ongoing work of addressing the challenges and opportunities in AI development. This is particularly true in the case of the predictive and surveillance tools deployed in classrooms and other learning environments. In order to effectively facilitate these critical conversations within their learning communities, educators need support developing their own awareness of AI Accountability and directly engaging in conversations about AI Ethics in the education space.
2026 AI Council members will work together to explore the ways journalism can inform classroom conversations and teaching practices that hold AI accountable. Council Members will take a project-based approach to the work, applying an AI Accountability lens to plan and implement a project in their communities.
All Council projects must utilize AI Accountability journalism to engage at least 60 students, educators, and/or parents in a critical conversation about the use of AI technologies in school environments. Council Members will have the option to:
- Develop a school or classroom AI policy and facilitate community conversation around its implementation
- Design and facilitate a space for community conversation (involving teachers, students, and parents) about the risks and impacts of AI technologies in the classroom space
- Propose their own project/model for meeting program criteria.
Council Expectations
Council Members will participate in five evening workshops to explore news stories about Information and Artificial Intelligence, connect with Pulitzer Center-supported journalists reporting on AI accountability, and use Pulitzer Center education frameworks as tools in their collaborative discussions about the opportunities and challenges for K-12 schools and classrooms seeking to apply an AI Accountability lens to their technological practice. Over the course of the program, Council Members will be expected to:
- Apply by March 15th with a critical question about AI technologies in education that can anchor their project and community conversation
- Use data from audience research, resources created by the previous AI Teacher Advisory Councils, and AI Accountability reporting to further inform their exploration of the anchor question
- Develop a community engagement project that utilizes AI Accountability as a lens for critical dialogue
- Implement their project by facilitating a critical AI conversation in their classrooms or school community
- Demonstrate the impact of the project on the learning environment through photos, videos, quotes, and/or reflections
- Present their learning and impact as a part of a public-facing showcase on August 29, 2026.
Compensation
Upon successful completion of the program, Council members will be provided with:
- $850 in total stipends (made in three payments)
- A Pulitzer Center AI Council Member digital badge
- A certificate for 20 hours of professional development
Eligibility
This program is open to all educators working with K-12 students and educators in public, charter, independent, and alternative schools in the United States and U.S. territories. Applicants must be currently working as a K-12 educator and/or administrator and must be planning to continue their work in their current school or district through the end of 2026.
Applicants should be able to provide confirmation of their ability to implement their proposed project in their school/district either through the nature of their role (Principal, Instructional Coach, etc) or by including a commitment to participate form signed by all relevant school and district leaders.
The Pulitzer Center is committed to making real, measurable progress on diversity, equity and inclusion in all of our programs and partnerships. Please review our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion statement for more information on our commitments. Educators from historically marginalized backgrounds, and/or educators who are teaching students from historically marginalized backgrounds, are strongly encouraged to apply.
Application
Educators who are interested in applying to this Council should complete the AI Accountability: Education Interest Survey. We encourage applicants to share the survey with other teachers in their network.
The program application requires educators to include…
- A question about AI technologies in schools that could anchor their project.
- At least one Pulitzer Center-supported AI Accountability story that connects to the question at the center of their project.
- A selected or proposed model for their community engagement project
- Information about their anticipated audience for their AI dialogue in their applications.
Applications are due Sunday, March 15, 2026. The application review process will include interviews as a part of the final selection.
Thank for your interest to the AI Spotlight Series. Welcome to the Track 3: An Editor's Guide to Covering AI application page.
This 90-minute interactive training session, led by Bina Venkataraman, is designed for managing editors, executive editors, desk editors, social media editors -- anyone in charge of directing coverage, commissioning stories, or packaging and producing them for public consumption.
We will identify different types of AI stories and dissect what sets apart the best coverage, including its framing, headline, and artwork. You’ll learn to assess pitches and filed stories and avoid common pitfalls that can mislead or confuse an audience (or an editor). There will be opportunities to ask questions, trade tips, and have a lively discussion among fellow newsroom decision-makers.
To allow maximum interaction between the coaches and the editors, we will cap the maximum number of trainees to 35-40 journalists. During the application review, we consider, among others, the applicants' time zone, their role in the newsroom, and their motivation or reason for joining the training.
Kindly note that this session is about reporting on AI, and not about using AI for journalistic purposes. Apply by March 16, 2026.
Thank for your interest to the AI Spotlight Series. Welcome to the Track 2: Reporting on AI Intensive application page.
This three-day course, taught by Gabriel Geiger and Lam Thuy Vo, is designed to give reporters a firm grounding in AI and how it works, as well as the tools to identify critical stories that will highlight the technology’s impacts, hold companies and governments accountable, and drive policy and community change while avoiding hype and unnecessary alarmism.
The Reporting on AI Intensive session is designed for reporters who grasp AI, spend significant time covering technology, and want to go deeper. It will help clarify your understanding of technical concepts and think more expansively about how to cover the different facets of this fast-moving story.
The course will require a dedicated time commitment: We will meet for 6 hours in one week, and an additional hour of recommended homework will be provided between sessions to maximize class time. Bahasa Indonesia translation will be provided.
At the program's end, you can pitch the Pulitzer Center for a grant or fellowship to support an AI accountability reporting project. You will also join the Center’s broader AI Accountability Network, a global consortium of journalists investigating and documenting AI's impacts on people and communities.
Africa Impact Seed Funding (ISF) 2025 Guidelines (ENG) (FR)
Themes:
It is mandatory for applicants to read through our full version guidelines (PDF format) in this link: Guidelines
The Impact Seed Funding (ISF) is a micro-scale education grant that aims to support a range of education activities that can enrich the perspectives and knowledge on the socio-ecological challenges, solutions, and innovation about issues of rainforest, oceans, climate and labor crisis impact to the university/school community, specifically students and educators.
The main objective of the grant is to cultivate more curious, informed, empathetic communities on the underreported issues of Oceans and Climate change. Ultimately it aims to inspire change of perspectives, narratives, and actions amongst the communities. The Africa ISF projects will put the Pulitzer Center’s Climate & Labor, Rainforest, Transparency and Governance as well as Oceans Reporting Network (ORN) stories at the center of its engagement and activities.
The stories contributed by Pulitzer Center's fellows and grantees are representations of the passion of journalists being compelled to report on issues that matter around the world. These reports often bring first perspectives from the field, such as farmers and local communities affected by climate change. These reportages produce a lot of high-quality visuals, so that they are expected to be able to convey the complex issues in ways that are interesting and easy-to-understand.
We believe in the power of knowledge and the role of education and educators in addressing the multidisciplinary problems in rainforests, oceans and climate crisis. Hence, The Africa ISF is designed to provide seed funds for educators and researchers in Africa to unlock further impact from the reportages by the Pulitzer Center’s grantees and fellows, to increase awareness of urgent Ocean and climate issues among communities in the continent.
The Africa ISF will provide micro-scale grants to:
- Initiate new collaborations or develop existing collaborations among teachers, researchers, students, and journalists;
- Increase engagement between education communities, journalists, and local communities;
- Stimulate the use of creative visuals (e.g., comics, animated videos, photos, short videos, documentary, podcasts), data visuals and information from the reportages in teaching materials, student activities, curriculum and class materials, or scientific publications;
- Stimulate the introduction and promotion of DEI friendly tools in teaching materials, student activities, curriculum and scientific publications. (DEI = Diversity, Equity and Inclusion). Gender equality and Handicap issues among young students to be prioritized.
- Facilitate the adoption of featured findings in the reportages to relevant research and other scientific products.
The Africa ISF is designed to be flexible and responsive to educator and community needs, allowing applicants to establish activities linked to urgent issues in the Environmental, Oceans and Climate crisis.
The Africa ISF grants will range from USD $2,000 to $3,500. We expect that projects will be implemented within a four-months timeline after approval.
Requirements
- The project must center around the stories reported by the Rainforest Grantees and Fellows or Climate & Labor grantees;
- The activity must showcase an intended impact towards the audience of the academic/school community (students or Fellow lecturers/researchers), or civil society;
- The project must be implemented in consultation with the relevant Pulitzer Center’s grantees or Fellows;
- The project must demonstrate a strong Diversity, Equity and Inclusion approach;
- Applicants must deliver financial and narrative reports at the end of the grant period, detailing costs and results.
For your reference, all Pulitzer Center supported reportages can be access on our website here https://pulitzercenter.org
Type of Activities
Examples of successful ISF grant activities and outputs may include, but are not limited to:
- Student Engagement:
- Insertion in teaching materials, on-campus debates, social issues hackathons, student-led debates and dialogues
- Visuals production and dissemination (short videos, documentary, podcast, content);
- On-campus mini exhibition
- Journalism workshop for student press clubs
- Mobility/local Community Engagement: Knowledge exchange activities, student visits, biodiversity expeditions, citizen journalism
- Support for Research Activities: Data adoption to improve ongoing research accuracy, insertion of data or knowledge in a book chapter
Eligibility
Applicants must be
- lecturers or researchers,
- k12 teachers,
- Student groups based in Africa
Project Duration
The maximum duration of the proposed collaboration is four months. Once the funding is approved and a grant agreement has been signed by the Pulitzer Center, funds will be transferred to the successful principal applicant. Formal project start and end dates will be established in the grant agreement.
Submission Process
The application must include the following:
- An overview of the proposed project in no more than 400 words. This must include the objectives, proposed activities, intended impact,rationale of the proposed project,
- Target audience & projection of total audience, strategy,
- Detailed timeframe,
- A preliminary budget estimate, including a basic breakdown of costs,
- If the proposed activities include knowledge exchange activities with forest communities, a statement by a member of the community showing a consent by them must be presented. This can be in the form of a message or letter,
- If the activities include content production, you must include a concept note explaining how you would produce it and outputs that you are aiming at,
- A copy of a curriculum vitae, including three professional references (heads of departments or leads in your workplace must be included). The references should be in the form of letters of recommendation.
Timeline
- Application process: March - Apr 15, 2026
- Selection process: April 15 - May 06, 2026
- Grants announcement: May 07, 2027
- Briefing and grants administration: May 07 - May 30, 2026
- Implementation duration: June 1 - Dec 15, 2026
- Project reporting and closure: December 15, 2026 - January 10, 2027
For more information, please contact the responsible manager:
Eric Selemani (Africa Education Program Manager) : eselemani@pulitzercenter.org
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