Summary
Many high school students have little opportunity to understand how artificial intelligence (AI) works or to develop the computational thinking skills needed to engage with it critically. This makes it essential that teachers be not only knowledgeable about AI but also skilled enough to guide student inquiry into it. Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) programs represent one promising pathway, yet fewer than 40% of participants ever translate what they learned into actual classroom practice. This shortfall stems from several recurring challenges: research projects are often too distant fro
