GAEL UnscriptED S2:E11 | Schools Can Use AI Without Letting Cheating Win with Trek Ai

Students are already using AI for school, whether we approve it or not and that reality is forcing district leaders to make choices fast. We sit down with Erin Burchik of Trek AI and Brent Coleman of GET to get honest about what’s happening in classrooms, what’s going wrong with unapproved tools, and what “safe AI for schools” should actually mean when academic integrity is on the line. 

We dig into the accuracy problem that rarely makes it into the marketing. If an AI model can hallucinate, a confident answer can still be the wrong answer, and that is a deal breaker for learning. Erin and Brent explain how Trek AI is built around K-12 content and a Socratic tutoring approach that guides students step by step rather than becoming an answer machine, plus visibility features that let educators coach students early by reviewing logged chats. 

We also get practical about the upside for teachers and students: standards aligned support for Georgia classrooms, world language conversation practice, help for English language learners, math walkthroughs from a simple photo upload, and teacher tools that can reduce planning and grading time. The bigger takeaway is a framework for AI policy that feels like a learner permit: guardrails first, skills and judgment next, then broader independence. 

If you’re a superintendent, principal, instructional tech leader, or classroom teacher trying to balance innovation with trust, press play and take notes. Subscribe for more conversations like this, share the episode with your leadership team, and leave a review so more educators can find it.

Transcript

Welcome And Guest Introductions

SPEAKER_03 0:28

Hello, Gail members, and welcome back to another exciting episode of Gail Unscripted. We've got some fantastic guests with us today. We've got Aaron from Trek AI, and we've got Brent from GET. And why don't we take a couple of minutes to introduce yourselves to any of our members that may not know you?

SPEAKER_01 0:45

Awesome. Well, I'm Aaron Birchik. I am the chief growth officer at Trek AI. I've been with the company since it started in 2023. We launched in Atlanta and we're an AI platform for schools and districts. We have all of the great teacher tools that you may have seen before, plus some extras like grading and things like that. And then we also are different in that we offer on-demand uh student tutoring through our AI platform as well. So we have loved getting to partner with GET and Brent as well.

Why GET Partners With Trek

SPEAKER_02 1:15

All right. And I'm Brent Coleman. I'm the old guy in the group. I got into this business 21 years ago. I went solo, if you will, and started GET in 2019. I was with Syntegics and I was have been involved with Syntegics since the very beginning. And as Syntegs began to grow so much, I said, hey, I'll be the sales partner in Georgia. So it's been a tremendous ride. As most members know, or most school districts have synthetics, we're in 91% of the public schools. But as the years have moved forward, I'm also I partner with Cloud12 for Bells Paging Intercom, Classroom Cameras, Classroom Audio, EcoVasive for weapons detection and vape detection. And it's quite often that companies will approach me about hey, do you want to partner with XYZ? So the first thing I want to do is listen when school districts start calling me, hey, what do you know about AI or what do you know about whatever it is? That gets my attention because it's certainly something they're struggling with. And that's real, that's what happened with Trek. To be honest, I wasn't looking to partner with an AI curriculum product. But once they approached me and I learned more about the company, I said, hey, this is the best of what I've seen. And so when that happens, we'll vet it. And what I quickly learned is there are seems to be quite a bit out there for teachers, teacher tools. But and then there's things for students, but typically students are just freewheeling out there. But I haven't seen something where it provides a platform for teachers to provide them with what they need to make their life easier, which is we want to make their life easier as teachers in 2026. And then for the student, it's not just giving the answer. And so that's what to me the first thing I noticed with Trek AI. And our motto with GET is smarter and safer schools. And it sounds like a cliche, but when we partner with someone, we want to ensure when you implement it, you will become smarter, provide smarter and safer schools. And so we began the partnership really uh summer gale. And since that time, we were growing like crazy in Georgia. Trek AI has implementations on six continents. The only one they don't have is Antarctica. What are you waiting on?

SPEAKER_01 3:39

I know, right? We're we're going for it still.

What Students Use AI For

SPEAKER_03 3:41

We would we expect to hear the news of the Antarctica expansion by winter guess. That's awesome. Well, I can't wait to hear more about AI. I know there's it's uh it's become at the forefront of the principal superintendents, board members. I know Georgia School Boards Association has been working with boards on how to make sure they've got the the right policies and the correct policies. Teachers and leaders in schools are some of them are are very, very worried and anxious about uh what AI does, some are very excited about it and very comfortable. Um it's here, uh, and I think that's the the charge we have as public educators to figure out how to harness this for the good when it comes to learning and and working in classrooms and in schools. So I can't wait to get into that more. So why don't we start with that? What is the reality of AI use in students today? What are students using AI for right now as we speak?

SPEAKER_02 4:43

When we started vetting AI solutions, as I was referencing a while ago, what I quickly learned is a lot of what out is out there provides wrong answers for students. Now, cheating has been around since the beginning of time.

SPEAKER_03 4:58

Yeah.

Hallucinations And Trusted Answers

SPEAKER_02 4:59

I've heard that. But I think we all realize that the negative of AI is it can make it really easy for students to teach. Uh 90% of teenagers in America are using some form of AI to help them with schoolwork. Aaron can dive into the details of why it's so much better for the student. But one of my things that I realized in my early vetting is hallucination rate. And Ben, I don't do you know what hallucination rate means now.

SPEAKER_03 5:29

I have an idea. I know what a hallucination is.

SPEAKER_02 5:32

That's when AI is just making up the answer based on what it thinks it knows. And it's amazing if you look it up how often that happens. And ironically, completely ironically, I was just catching up on the news this morning and I saw a link, and it was talking about Grok, and Grok is bragging how they have the lowest hallucination rate of the major models. And when Grok hallucinates, it's wrong 22% of the time.

SPEAKER_03 6:00

Wow.

SPEAKER_02 6:01

And it's the lowest. Yeah, and it's like we're the champion. Wow. So when it hallucinates, it's it's a C student. And I want to turn it over to Aaron to talk about Trek's 2% hallucination rate. Oh wow.

Socratic Tutoring Instead Of Answers

SPEAKER_01 6:15

Yeah. Because uh we have already loaded in the answers that students are, you know, most likely to ask as they're turning to it for homework help or for that on-demand study buddy, we've been able to bring that hallucination rate that with all the other models is up to, you know, in the 20s of percentages, down to just 2% of the time. Um, because when they're asking about chemistry or when they're asking about trigonometry, we've already put that content in there in our K-12 database. And so we also use that Socratic approach where we're not just going to give the kids the answer though. So even though we have the right answer, we're going to make them still go through the process where they're learning and we'll walk them through step by step, guiding them towards that correct answer. But we are not just an answer machine in the same way that other AI platforms are. So when we talk to districts, they're recognizing every day how much students are using AI outside of the classroom to cut corners, to cheat, um, because they're not being given an option that kind of provides those guardrails and those boundaries to keep them on the right track track to prevent them from cheating.

SPEAKER_03 7:22

Oh wow. Did you call it a study buddy? What did you call that? Online books. Talk to me about that a little bit.

SPEAKER_01 7:28

Yeah. So what we see in our platform often is when students get home from school, they'll pull up Trek and they'll kind of just use it as their companion as they're studying or doing their homework. And so they can jump between subjects, world languages. We have over a hundred world languages already loaded in. Um, you know, every subject that is taught within Georgia districts, we've got there for them. And so as they're studying or doing homework, they can just ask questions. And again, it's not gonna do work for them. It won't write papers for them like other platforms will, but it will step into that coach mode and that Socratic tutor mode where it will ask questions. It will ask, you know, what are their current associations and then try to build upon those to create like real moments of learning rather than just being like, okay, what's the definitions? Great, I got them from ChatGPT or other platforms out there.

World Languages And ELL Support

SPEAKER_03 8:17

Yeah, that is fascinating. And so it's got Georgia standards that are already in the Trek AI, so schools that are listening to this and thinking about purchasing this for their students. They don't have to worry about the standards aren't connected and aligned to Georgia. Um, so with the foreign language, you just really piqued my interest there. So I'm I'm do you know all a hundred foreign languages? I know. Oh, I that was I was gonna how many foreign languages do you have access to?

SPEAKER_01 8:44

Yeah, over a hundred. And so what's been awesome is number one, for our world language classes, those teachers love this because there's some specialized activities that teachers can create within the platform where they can create conversation sessions. And let's say they're working on a particular vocab list that week or a different verb tense. They can upload that into Trek and then assign that as a conversation session to their students. So when their students log in and they start chatting in this conversation session, it's gonna prioritize that vocab list or prioritize that verb tense that they're working on so that it's the most relevant content that they're using to prepare for the upcoming assessment or whatever it is. But then also for English language learners, Trek will kind of shift seamlessly back and forth between English and the language that they learn in best. So let's say that they're getting beyond their level of reading comprehension, they can shift into um you know the language maybe that they speak at home so that they can get a deeper grasp of understanding of whatever topic they're covering, and then they can shift right back into English and it'll just kind of follow them back and forth.

SPEAKER_03 9:49

Wow. I'm just thinking of all the the when I took foreign language as a student, you know, you go home and you you you don't have the teacher there anymore, the the benefits this would be thinking about so many of our students, so especially in small rural communities, that maybe take foreign language through Georgia Virtual School. So they they never really have a teacher on site, but this would be a platform that they could get some tutoring and help. Absolutely. That is fantastic.

SPEAKER_01 10:15

Yeah, and we even have a text-to-speech option that's incredible. So if they need to understand that pronunciation, they can just click play and they hear it pronounced as a native speaker.

Math Help And Alternative Settings

SPEAKER_03 10:25

Can they speak into it and it give them a you're you're on the right track or you need more enunciation? We're coming out with the southern version. That is awesome. This is fantastic. I was a terrible math student, so I'm just thinking of all the benefits I could have had. Um I may somewhat understand the math concept while I'm in the classroom live when I've got the teacher where I can still get her to come over and show me. But then I would go home, and and neither of my parents could help me with math. I couldn't help my children when they were in middle and high school with their math. Um, so I just I see so many benefits of this as you're describing.

SPEAKER_01 11:00

So I'm the same way. I my oldest daughter is in trigonometry right now. I there's no way I could ever do that. But she can take a picture with her cell phone of the homework that she's working on, just upload it right there, and then it can start to walk her through step by step. Again, not doing any of the work for not giving answers, but saying, like, okay, step one here, we need to, you know, create fractions or whatever it is. Um, and it'll just kind of walk her through.

unknown 11:25

Wow.

School Struggles With Unapproved AI

SPEAKER_03 11:26

I'm just I I'm sitting here as an old principal thinking about some of my students that used to get in a little trouble and they have to go to ISS because we've got to remove them from the student body for a day, two, or three. And sometimes, you know, the work we're able to give them is not very good. And I'm just thinking of what this could provide a possibility for. Um, you know, so now that ISS instructor that's got 20 different students taking 85 different courses certainly can't be an expert in all of those, but this could be a tool that could be used to get some valuable instructional time leading up to the state assessment. That's fantastic. All right. What are the biggest struggles schools are facing as they navigate this rapid rise of AI?

SPEAKER_01 12:16

Well, the number one thing that we're hearing from district leaders, school leaders is that they are recognizing just how much students are using uh non-approved AI outside of the classroom. And so, you know, we just spoke to a district the other day where they had a district-wide um science fair, and the winner they found out had a completely AI generated uh, you know, uh project that they turned in. And so um from that, you know, large of a AI generation down to, you know, just daily essays or whatever it is, they're recognizing so much how students are using it to cut corners and to cheat. There's a huge range too in AI adoption of teachers right now. So you've got some teachers who are so excited they want to jump in, figure out how do I maximize this in the classroom. And then you've got some that are kind of like, okay, I just wish I could stick my head in the sand and wish this whole thing away. I wish my students didn't have access to this. And then, of course, there's the bigger issues of um, you know, selecting an AI platform that is best for your school and your district.

The AI Learner Permit Idea

SPEAKER_03 13:18

So and I'm hearing of more and more student uh students, schools and districts that are hiring people in their technology department just to focus on the AI portion. It's becoming that big. It is. And uh and it's constantly evolving and changing. How do you think schools should be preparing students to live, work, and lead in this new AI-driven world?

SPEAKER_01 13:41

Well, a lot of times we use an analogy of um, you know, teaching a kid to drive. And so I'm have you ever taught one of your kids how to drive?

SPEAKER_03 13:50

Unfortunately, I taught both of them to drive, and I didn't force her to run in the first one, yes. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 13:57

Um yeah, I have I have one daughter who I've taught how to drive. My second is about to get her learner's permit in a month here or so. Congratulations. Yes, uh-huh.

SPEAKER_03 14:05

Nothing like sitting in that passenger seat.

Learning Gains And Personalized Paths

SPEAKER_01 14:07

I can't wait. Um But for my oldest, you know, the second she got that learner's permit, you know, the first place we went was a parking lot. Then we kind of built our way up to back roads, neighborhood streets, and then finally worked our way up to 75, 85, 285. We didn't just throw her on the interstate right away. Um we feel the need for students to have almost a learner's permit of AI because in some ways it feels like academically they're being forced on to the interstate of Chat GPT and other platforms without being given that safe place to learn how to navigate this new world first. So they need boundaries, they need guardrails, they need visibility into the ways that they're using it, they need accountability so that, you know, when they go outside of the AI policy of their school or district, they're able to be coached back in line in using it in a way that is not compromising their academic integrity. Um and they also need to be taught what AI is and what AI is not, so that they all go into this with um you know eyes wide open of w what they're interacting with and and how it works and how it functions. You know, right now, one in five students, uh they just came out with a study that says they either are or they know of somebody who is saying they have some kind of a you know romantic connection to AI. And it's like these students need to be educated that this is just a machine that is speaking back to them, you know. And so um that's one of the things that we really hope to do is provide that safe place where it can't take on the life of a character, where it's not going to do the work for them. But then also all of uh our students' chats are logged so that you know their teachers and administrators can see them. And so they're able to intervene earlier when it's they haven't submitted work that's AI generated, but they can say, hey, it looks like you were trying to get it to do work for you. Again, this is outside of our policy. Let's have an earlier intervention rather than the huge consequences of submitting something you know that's plagiarized.

SPEAKER_03 16:13

That's fantastic. What what is the real impact AI can have on learning outcomes when it's implemented well?

SPEAKER_02 16:22

Well, I think we've done a good job of tracking that, and we're seeing that it's usually 15 to 20 percent growth of increasing the grade. So we take those C students and make them B students. The B students are now A students. Then I don't know if you were you're probably A plus students. So when measured, it's always been positive. That's good.

SPEAKER_01 16:49

And really, like from a bigger picture to what the potential is, just in keeping with the driving analogy here, we see this personalization of education kind of being the difference between that like map quest versus Waze moment, where you know, if you remember the map quest days before, you know, where you print out the directions and it was kind of like, all right, these are my fixed directions, I'm gonna follow step by step here. And it didn't matter if you came across a wreck, you know, on 316 to get to here, you were just kind of stuck in traffic. Whereas with Waze, it can reroute you, it recognizes earlier on, oh, there's a you know, there's a barrier here, let's get around it, or oh, there's an issue that we can avoid by taking an alternate route. We see that as the potential for AI and education to personalize instruction in a way where we're able to set students up for more success and we're able to identify, okay, what are the potential hazards for them? Where are they specifically going to encounter some blocks? And let's navigate around those, playing into their strengths and and their interests. And so we really see this as a time where we're we're having a whole transformation from you know that fixed static route to being dynamic and being able to engage with each student as the individual that they are. Correct.

Apathy Versus Curiosity And Creativity

SPEAKER_03 18:08

You mentioned engagement, you know, when it comes to schools, school leaders, and district leaders, they want to know, you know, they're always how is this going to engage our students? How is this going to work with their motivation? And always with student behavior. What have you all seen with Trek AI when it comes to those and how AI is already shaping student behavior, motivation, and engagement?

SPEAKER_01 18:33

Well, one of my favorite parts of my job is that I get to talk to so many amazing educators. And last week I was actually at Effingham County talking to Daniel Rivera, who is just everybody who knows him loves that. That's right.

SPEAKER_03 18:46

They stole him from the first district reset.

Teacher Fears And Workflow Relief

SPEAKER_01 18:49

So I've got to give him some credit here because he he gave this whole um kind of framework to me that I have borrowed several times. So got to give credit where credit's due. But he was talking about, you know, one of the biggest issues that educators are seeing in students right now is that apathy in some students. You know, not very interested in the work that they're doing. So if you think of it on a continuum, you've got, you know, apathetic students on this side of the continuum, curious students on the opposite side. And it's how can we use AI to start to draw those students from apathy to engagement? And one of the keys there is that creativity, that AI can kind of help move students in that direction. So, like never before, if a student has a unique interest, we could use AI to tailor instruction to them. So if they've got something that they want to just pursue, let's say that they are an all-star math student, but they are not content staying in the scope and sequence that they're currently in with AI, they could just press the accelerator and you know, start exploring, you know, APBC calculus without feeling held back. Um, or if let's say they're, you know, an aspiring entrepreneur, they could create a website with vibe coding right now so quickly. They could create product mock-ups so quickly just to kind of get them unstuck. If they're interested in music, they could create a whole album in a weekend. You know, if they um are a gamer and we they want to create a game, you know, again, they could get on and create their own custom game that they would go out and share. For some of those apathetic students, if they start to engage with AI in the wrong way, um, it's almost like it accelerates their apathy because they're like, oh, I found a way of disengaging even more. It'll just do the work for me. And then for the curious students who are already curious and interested in all these things, we're seeing them become even more so because they're like, oh, I can really pursue this specific interest or passion. So I think the challenge is how do we leverage this to get that engagement? How do we say, you know, we're not gonna just try to fit you into this exact um route? How can we um begin to play to what will get you engaged? What will are you willing to talk about? What are you willing to study a little bit more so that we can start to not see AI drive those students to opposite ends of the spectrum, but begin to bring, you know, those students who maybe are struggling with apathy into more of that curiosity? Correct.

SPEAKER_03 21:23

Well, there's a lot of fear around AI. So there may be leaders that are listening to this and they're thinking about all of the negative things that they've heard about AI. Um, what are some of the biggest misconceptions you've encountered when talking to and dealing with educators about those misconceptions? I've heard more of the positives. Yeah. Well, I know some of the misconceptions, I don't know, maybe fears I've heard from uh some educators, especially when AI first came out. And you've alluded to some of them, but uh the kids won't be doing any of the work, they'll get it to do all their homework full. It'll write the papers, you know, those kind of things. And so I'm sure you hear that as you talk to people, even if they they know there are some great benefits to it. So how is that how has that gone about? You you like Daniel at Effingham County, maybe he could give an example, um, or a school district that you're already using, you know, they had these worries and these fears. Now that they've implemented it, what were some misconceptions or or what made them feel better about it once they went through the trial period or or whatever they did? Maybe that's a good way to ask it.

SPEAKER_01 22:39

Yes. Well, w I was recently at um the Capitol and we were talking a lot about AI policy with a group of educators, and um one of the things that a lot of them were worried about was how is this gonna impact my job? You know, is are we talking about AI replacing educators? And anybody who's in education, I think knows a AI is not going to be able to replace a teacher because you know it's not just a trend transactional thing that's happening with it in education, it's transformational, and that requires a teacher who's making that investment in the lives of the students. But I think the potential there is giving teachers time back in their day so that they can move back into that guide and coach mode where you know some of them are so bogged down by the administrative tasks that come along with teaching right now, and we're seeing burnout happen, you know, across the board. If we could give time back in teacher's day with some of these AI teacher tools that will hopefully, you know, streamline their workflow and then help them to free up space where, you know, they can be able to invest in their students in a way that maybe they haven't been able to. Um, you know, we've got every kind of teacher tool you can imagine from lesson planning to grading to slide generation. And with each of those, we're hoping that, you know, that gives 30 minutes an hour back into the day of that teacher. And also the potential is that AI can really give teachers a pulse on the academic progress of their students like never before. And so what sets our platform quickly. Yes, absolutely. Because, and that's really the the value of having the on-demand tutoring that's a part of our platform because you get real organic content to work with. So as students are engaging, Trek is scanning all of those students' chats, it's analyzing them, summarizing them, and then giving really profound insights back to teachers, saying things to them like, hey, uh, you know, everybody in your fourth period class is asking this kind of a question. Let's go back and backfill before moving on to the next section. Or, hey, everybody in your second period class looks confused in their chats. Let's go back and figure out what's causing some of this confusion for your students. That's right.

Classroom Insights From Student Chats

SPEAKER_03 24:48

And your first period class seems to all have it and they're moving forward. They've grasped the concept.

SPEAKER_02 24:54

Ben, I'll share two examples from teachers' direct feedback. One of them was telling me that she's never been comfortable writing D-O-K level three and four questions. And a teacher can go in the platform, click on test generator, and do D-OK 3-4, bang, it's there. Wow. Now she has that confidence. And I'm actually going to read something else a teacher sent me because I think this is so specific to Georgia. It says Trek helps teachers turn Georgia's standards and milestones expectations into classroom ready practice. Instead of teaching to the test, it helps generate multimodal assignments that ask students to read, analyze, revise, and respond in ways that match the rigor of Georgia.

SPEAKER_03 25:36

Wow.

SPEAKER_02 25:36

And then also in that same communication talking about get ready, getting ready for the GMass.

SPEAKER_03 25:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 25:42

I guess that's what everybody's aiming for in May.

SPEAKER_03 25:45

That's right. Got the test coming up after spring break. And so I as I'm hearing you talk and tell about Trek AI, I'm thinking about all the benefits that that could have. Because if you've got a classroom of 22 students, they may uh need help in uh multiple different areas of how to solve the math problem, or what standards maybe they've missed along the way that you're trying to shore up. And this allows that teacher to be able to handle and uh appropriately with each of those students in different areas. So I'm glad you you mentioned what teachers have shared because I know that that was going to be a question I asked is what are teachers that are using this, what are they saying? Is there anything you want to add to what Brent just said? Or so maybe some feedback you're getting from teachers?

SPEAKER_01 26:30

Yeah, I mean, again, going back to that time back in their day, I I think for some of them they're just saying, you know, I'm not having to do much as much in the evenings after work or on the putting in the weekend time that maybe they were having to put in before. Um there's a study that just came out that says that teachers who are maximizing AI tools as a part of their work day are saving on average about six hours per week.

unknown 26:53

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 26:54

And so that's that's a big piece of the feedback that I have to do.

SPEAKER_03 26:58

They can be fully present for their families or their friends. Yes. I think that's very important.

SPEAKER_02 27:04

And the power of Trek, I mean, every teacher that ever taught wants to be right where the student is, right? And you kind of end up in the middle, and now you've got an on-demand tutor that can be right where the student is.

SPEAKER_03 27:16

Yeah. Even when you talked about the teachers getting those level three and four the questions, helping them to understand how to do it themselves.

SPEAKER_02 27:24

That's right.

What AI-Ready Schools Look Like

SPEAKER_03 27:24

And uh they may not use the exact question, but it it's a great starting point for them to begin to do that. I think that's fantastic. All right, so let's talk about three to five years in the future. What do you think schools are gonna look like? What are these classrooms and that are these schools that are successfully integrating AI? What are those classrooms gonna look like for students and teachers in the future?

SPEAKER_01 27:55

I think we're gonna see students being able to really uh define, hey, I'm really interested in pursuing this kind of a path or, you know, this this college prep path or this career path, or um but specifically, you know, with this niche direction in mind. Um I think we'll start to see um earlier intervention when it comes to being able to recognize um, you know, learning differences in students and and ways that we can intervene and you know make accommodations for those students in creative ways. Um I think it's gonna look like teachers being able to step again more into that relational guide teacher mode rather than feeling like, okay, I've got so many tasks that I'm just checking through all day, every day. Um and I think we're gonna be able to, I mean, the sky's the limit when it comes to um the engagement, I think that we'll be able to see from students because hopefully we'll be able to identify, okay, what are you most passionate about? What are your sports you're interested in? You know, if you're really into baseball, well, let's use baseball to teach you um algebra. Yeah, whatever it is. Um so being able to pull students into that level of engagement.

SPEAKER_03 29:12

Make it relevant.

SPEAKER_01 29:13

Yes, and and we're just starting uh this summer, we've got some new products that are launching that we're so excited about that are beginning to move in that direction, um, that are really uh personalized, very focused tutors, you know, for specific tests and things where it's going to learn a little bit more and keeping that data really safe and secured right there with the school. But knowing a little bit more about them so that it can feed them up instruction that they're gonna be excited about and interested in, and therefore be even more uh successful.

Demos Onboarding And Support

SPEAKER_03 29:46

Well, I know there's gonna be a lot of educators are gonna watch this or listen to this podcast and they're gonna want to talk to you. I mean, you're you're touching on achievement, you're touching on engagement, you're talking about saving teachers time, helping teachers write assessments, helping teachers grade. I think about English teachers and the volumes of grading they have to do on rough drafts of essays and stuff. So let's say you've piqued their interest. What's the next step? The principal, the superintendent, the assistant superintendent of teaching and learning, instructional technology, they're they're listening. I want more information. How do I go about getting it?

SPEAKER_01 30:26

Just visit trekai.org. We've got lots of uh ways that you could either book a demo for you and your team, you could give us a call, we can, you know, talk to you right on the spot. Um, we've got lots of great information there. It's just so easy to onboard. It's unbelievable. That's one of the best things is that we hear from uh tech directors all the time that they love working with us because we integrate with every major LMS and SIS, so we can get districts stood up in a day. Wow. Um and we've got an amazing partner success team that's there to make sure that the uh districts are getting the most out of this, and so um they're there to provide training and ongoing resources and support. And so um, yeah, I mean we would love to, you know, we we're still onboarding people right now, and um, yeah, we would love to get to partner with every district in Georgia.

SPEAKER_03 31:16

All right, so you heard that. Reach out to Aaron, reach out to Brent, uh, reach out to us at Gail if you can't remember, and we'll get you that contact information and they'll set up a demo for you. Uh they'll come on site if you want them to, and and but you've you've heard some of the benefits of this, you've heard the ease of it. Um AI is here, and I think we're either gonna make decisions to to ignore it, or we're gonna use processes and structures like Trek AI have to use it for good, uh, both for teachers and for students to help propel learning in the future.

Final Takeaways And Next Steps

SPEAKER_02 31:50

And I think that's the reality, Ben. I mean, all schools in Georgia at some point need to be using something AI related for teachers and students. And I said on the front end, I haven't seen anything that does both in working together. One thing I failed to mention on the front end too is this is a Trek is a Georgia-based company, born and raised. So they know the people, they know the culture, and probably most important, smart people, very genuine. And if you've been at some of the conferences out there in Georgia over the last six, nine months, you've met Aaron, you've met Britney, Derek, Josh, the whole team, just really, really good people. So would love to learn more about what districts need and share more about Trek. And it's the price of a cup of coffee. Yeah, I mean, literally, per student or for a teacher, you can provide this for a teacher. Wow. For a price of a cup of coffee. They can have it all year long. That's fantastic.

SPEAKER_03 32:42

So I won't uh, you know, just yeah, because cups of coffee costs different amounts of money there too. But so it's is it's by FTE, is it by the the license? How does that work?

SPEAKER_01 32:53

Yeah, so we have different tiers um and it's based off of per user. Okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 32:59

That's awesome. Yes. Well, Gail members, you've heard that. This has been a fantastic episode. Thank you for joining us today.

SPEAKER_02 33:05

Privileged to be here.

SPEAKER_03 33:06

They will be at Summer Gale, but if I were you, I wouldn't wait till then to reach out to them. I would I would get some information and find out about Trek AI and what what Trek AI can offer your school and your school district to help your students and your teachers. I think uh that teacher burnout report is still fresh on everyone's mind, and and getting time back for teachers is a huge component of climate and culture. Well, thank you both again for attending today. Thank you, Gail members, for joining us for another episode of Gail Unscripted.