Teach For All has launched the AI Literacy & Creator Collective (AI LCC), a global initiative positioning educators committed to equity and holistic student development as co-architects of AI's role in education. In partnership with Anthropic, the collective amplifies expertise and supports educational innovation in ways that respond to local context and needs. 

Through ongoing feedback and direct engagement with Anthropic's product team, educators will shape how Claude, its AI assistant, evolves to support diverse classroom realities, ensuring it reflects the expertise of teachers working in under-resourced communities. 

“For AI to reach its potential to make education more effective and equitable, teachers need to be the ones shaping how it's used and providing input on how it's designed,” said Wendy Kopp, CEO of Teach For All. “Our partnership with Anthropic is helping educators across our network experiment with and learn from these tools firsthand, as co-creators of AI's role in education.”

Centering teacher expertise

Built on Teach For All's core purpose to develop collective leadership to ensure all children have the opportunity to fulfill their potential, the AI LCC operates from a foundational belief: educators working in under-resourced schools possess irreplaceable knowledge about what students need. The collective's design reflects this, positioning teachers as experts whose insights directly inform how AI serves diverse educational needs.

Through the partnership, Anthropic provides Teach For All network members with access to Claude, while educators participate in live design sessions, community forums, and ongoing discussions with Anthropic teams to shape how AI evolves to serve diverse educational needs. This relationship ensures that equity-focused educators committed to holistic student development drive how AI becomes a force for equity and transformation in education.

The approach has already generated remarkable results. Within weeks of joining the AI LCC, a teacher in Liberia with no prior AI experience built an interactive climate education curriculum using Claude Artifacts. In Bangladesh, a teacher supporting Grade 6 and 7 students—over half struggling with basic numeracy—created a gamified math app with boss battles and rewards systems. In Argentina, educators developed curriculum-aligned digital workspaces for secondary students.

"After working with various AI tools, discovering Claude through the community initiative significantly expanded my practice," said Rosina Bastidas, a technology educator at Enseñá por Argentina. "I've since developed multiple educational artifacts and I'm currently designing digital, interactive workspaces for secondary school students aligned with the curriculum."

Buliding capability through peer learning

The AI LCC operates through three interconnected programs designed to build capability across the network:

The AI Fluency Learning Series provides foundational training through six live sessions covering AI literacy, practical classroom applications, and responsible implementation. Over 530 educators from across the network attended the inaugural series in November 2025.

The AI Learning Community creates meaningful opportunities for peer-to-peer exchange among educators representing 60+ countries. Members interact through the AI LCC WhatsApp community, self-organized into a series of sub-groups, 'collectives,' by interest, region, and language. Daily sharing of prompts, use cases, and discoveries builds collective expertise while ensuring innovations developed in one context can be adapted for others.

Claude Lab is a special ‘collective’ in the AI LCC WhatsApp community that offers an innovation space where teachers test advanced implementations and receive monthly support from Anthropic's team. Within four days of launching, the program received over 200 applications from educators eager to push the boundaries of AI in education.

"The combination of real-world experience from our entire network and technical insights from Anthropic has provided a fabulous learning opportunity," said Michael Gilmore, COO of Teach For Australia. "We've discovered how different partners are experimenting with and successfully harnessing AI to practically improve educational outcomes."

The AI LCC represents an initial step in Teach For All's broader vision to ensure that AI advances educational equity. As the collective grows, the network will continue advocating for educator-led AI development, equitable access to cutting-edge tools, and responsible implementation that prioritizes student needs.

"The wide availability of AI foundation models presents an opportunity for teachers to move away from a dependency on off-the-shelf ready-made Edtech created by companies for teachers and students in locations and contexts they don't fully understand," said Stephen Jull, Global Head of AI and Educational Technology at Teach For All. "Through the AI Literacy & Creator Collective, educators across our global network are creating locally and culturally situated classroom resources and learning support tools, while also directly engaging with the people responsible for building the AI models. We describe this as a reciprocal influence framework, where teachers are at the center of shaping the future of AI for education.”

Educators in the Teach For All network can learn more about the AI LCC here.