Sherry Ganon-Shilon, Orit Avidov-Ungar E17 Theme and Sub-Themes Example Statements "We are learning together how AI meets our individual needs” (SP6). Allocating time to present to one another "At least once a week, subject coordinators showed their educational staff how they generated writing prompts” (SP10). Lesson planning preparation "During lesson planning meetings, teachers realized that AI could help them. They found lesson planning much easier and began to believe in its potential” (SP13). Guiding teachers’ interactions through teacher leaders "I directed a teacher who is deeply committed to AI integration and she agreed to guide teachers’ sessions. Out of 112 teachers, 37 were enrolled for teaching with AI, and it worked wonders” (SP11). Sharing leadership "Wisdom resides within a lot of people. My pedagogical coordinator refined teachers’ technological pedagogical content knowledge” (SP5). Connecting with parents "I asked parents who are passioned about technology to provide AI workshops and their response was overwhelming” (SP16). Connecting with external partners "From the very beginning… the instructor from the Ministry was very attentive to us” (SP11). The second theme was transformational leadership practices within internal boundaries (N = 61, 38%) – elementary and high school principals communicated four transformational leadership practices for spreading the adoption of an AIED policy within internal boundaries: (A) idealized influence (n = 17), serving as a model of change, school principals engaged in different actions for influencing their teachers to use AI tools; (B) inspirational motivation (n = 16), school principals communicated different vision aspects for leveraging AI technology in education; (C) intellectual stimulation (n = 16), school principals encouraged teachers’ creativity (25%), critical thinking (69%), and problem solving (6%); (D) individualized consideration (n = 12), school principals provided individualized support to teachers (83%) and students (17%). Table 2 presents examples of school principals’ statements.
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