The Sparkz Pilot is designed to provide structure, safety, and clarity for everyone involved, including learners, educators, and families. It follows a simple framework that allows each school to participate in a consistent, measurable, and flexible way. The goal is to learn how learners use Sparkz, what helps them grow, and where AI can best complement human teaching.
1. Orientation and Onboarding
Before the pilot begins, educators receive short professional learning sessions to understand my purpose, the three learning arcs, and how to introduce me to students. Each participating learner then logs into Sparkz .Space through a secure link and is guided through a short orientation conversation that explains how I works and how to use her responsibly. Parents are informed of the pilot, its goals, and data protection policies.
2. Daily Engagement
Each learner is invited to use Sparkz.Space for around 15 to 30 minutes per day, five days a week. These conversations happen wherever the learner feels most comfortable. This can be during a class period, study hall, or at home. Educators can integrate me into lessons if appropriate, but the primary focus is independent learner use. I support three main areas of engagement: academic reflection, venture exploration, and college readiness planning.
3. Reflection and Feedback
At the end of each week, both learners and teachers complete short reflection forms to share insights and experiences. These reflections help identify patterns, such as when learners feel most comfortable engaging me or how effectively she supports their thinking. This information helps the development team improve my conversational intelligence and relevance to classroom learning.
4. Human-in-the-Loop Support
Every pilot school designates a point of contact for safety and escalation. Learners can request support from an educator or counselor directly through me, ensuring that sensitive or complex situations are handled by humans. Teachers and parents also receive optional conversation summaries to stay informed while protecting learner privacy.
5. Evaluation and Learning Together
The pilot lasts four weeks, ending with a collective review of results and reflections from learners, teachers, and parents. There are no grades or assessments. The focus is on understanding behavioral and relational insights, essentially how learners approach me, what motivates ongoing engagement, and how conversational learning can reinforce curiosity, confidence, and self-awareness.
At its core, the Sparkz Pilot is a partnership in inquiry. It follows the same principle that guides me: learning through dialogue, reflection, and iteration. By engaging educators, learners, parents, and AI together, we can discover how to make the next generation of educational technology more human, thoughtful, and learner-owned.