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Your AI Teaching Department: Build Personalized AI Assistants That Reduce Planning Time and Teach Like You Do

Complimentary for NBEA Members; Non-members $49

Thursday, October 8, 2026
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM (EDT)

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Event Details

Business teachers often spend hours each week creating lessons, developing instructional materials, writing assessments, and adapting resources for multiple courses. While AI has made lesson planning faster, many teachers still spend significant time rewriting generic AI responses so they better reflect their own teaching style, classroom expectations, and curriculum.


This session explores how to build a personalized AI Teaching Department using free AI tools that can be customized to understand your courses, instructional philosophy, lesson structure, and classroom expectations. Participants will learn how to create specialized AI assistants that help with unit planning, lesson design, classroom materials, assessments, and high-quality student feedback while producing resources that align with their unique approach to teaching.

The focus of this session is on creating reusable AI assistants that reduce planning time, eliminate repetitive decision making, and provide sustainable support throughout the school year. Rather than starting from scratch every time a lesson needs to be created, participants will learn how to build an AI planning team that consistently generates materials tailored to their curriculum, instructional style, and students' needs.

Key Takeaways:

  • Build personalized AI assistants that understand your curriculum, teaching style, and instructional preferences.
  • Create specialized AI assistants for unit planning, lesson design, instructional materials, assessments, and personalized student feedback.
  • Learn how to customize free AI tools so they consistently generate resources that reflect your unique classroom needs.
  • Reduce planning time, repetitive tasks, and decision fatigue by delegating routine instructional work to your AI Teaching Department.
  • Leave with a practical framework for building AI assistants that continue supporting your planning throughout the school year.

For More Information:

National Business Education Association Logo 1763 Columbia Road Northwest Ste 175, PMB 699137
Washington, District of Columbia 20009
United States
703.860.8300

Tori Hale is a high school business and technology teacher and university adjunct instructor who helps educators reduce burnout through low-prep, high-impact strategies that bring energy and engagement to any lesson. With over a decade of experience, she specializes in helping teachers transform existing materials into interactive, student-centered learning without adding to their workload.

Tori serves on the board of the Illinois Business Education Association (IBEA), supports early-career teachers through the IBEA Mentor Program, and is on the North Central Regional Cabinet under NBEA. She previously served as an instructional materials evaluator for the Finance and Business Systems Project through NIU and ISBE.

On Instagram at @ToriTeachesBiz, she shares free no-prep activities alongside reusable, versatile strategies teachers can adapt across content areas. Her mission is simple: make teaching sustainable, engaging, and built to last.