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Practical AI tools, Google Workspace tips, and time-saving strategies for busy K-12 teachers.
Tired of feeling behind on AI and classroom technology? Kasey Bell breaks it all down for busy K-12 teachers — practical AI tools for teachers, Google Workspace tips, Gemini AI, ChatGPT, and time-saving strategies for lesson planning and classroom management that actually work. No fluff, no overwhelm. Just honest, teacher-friendly professional development from a Google Certified Trainer, edtech author, and international speaker who gets what teachers need.
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Google Certified Trainer, edtech author & international speaker
📍 Texas, USA
Kasey Bell is a former middle school teacher turned Google Certified Trainer, edtech author, and international speaker. She is the founder of Shake Up Learning and is known for delivering honest, teacher-friendly professional development that helps busy K-12 educators stay ahead in education technology.
Teacher, author & co-creator, InterACTIVE Class
📍 United States
Joe Merrill is a teacher, author, and the co-creator of the InterACTIVE Class series. He blends emerging AI tools with meaningful, student-driven creation to meet every learner where they are.
View full profile →Teacher, author & co-creator, InterACTIVE Class
📍 United States
Kristen Merrill is a teacher, author, and the co-creator of the InterACTIVE Class series. She designs classroom strategies that move students beyond passive consumption into authentic creation using modern tools.
View full profile →Joe and Kristen Merrill — teachers, authors, and the dynamic duo behind the InterACTIVE Class series — show how to put creativity at the center of an AI-powered classroom. They blend emerging AI tools with meaningful, student-driven creation, exploring how to move students beyond passive consumption into authentic creation using tools like Canva, Adobe Express, School AI, Book Creator, Snorkl, and Padlet.
Kasey Bell walks through Gamma, an AI-powered tool that creates beautiful, professional-looking presentations, handouts, and pages in minutes. Whether you want to generate a lesson slideshow from a single prompt or paste in your existing Google Doc and let Gamma design it for you, this tool is one of the most practical AI tools for teachers.
Kasey Bell breaks down Google Workspace Studio, Google's new no-code AI agent builder available to teachers on Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals. No coding required, no extra cost — just smart automation powered by Gemini that runs in the background while you teach.
Summer PD sounds great until you waste your time on the wrong thing. Kasey Bell shares how to choose summer professional learning that is actually worth your time, energy, and attention — and how to avoid the fluffy, forgettable stuff that won't make a difference in August.
After spring break and during testing season, classroom management can start to unravel. Kasey Bell shares a practical late-spring survival plan to help teachers reset expectations, reinforce routines, support student behavior, simplify parent communication, and protect their own energy with the help of AI.
Feeling buried by digital chaos, classroom clutter, and routines that just aren't working anymore? Kasey Bell walks through a realistic teacher spring reset — how to clean up your digital files, declutter your classroom in small, doable chunks, and simplify the systems that keep creating mess in the first place.
Choice boards can be a total game-changer for pre-test review — or a chaotic mess. Kasey Bell shares exactly what makes review choice boards work, what causes them to flop, and how to structure them so they boost test prep without creating extra stress.
Kasey Bell breaks down the new Gemini AI tools built directly into Google Workspace for Education — no extensions or extra accounts needed. Discover how to access Gemini inside Google Classroom, use features like outline lesson plans and audio lessons, and export AI-generated content into Google Docs, Forms, and Classroom.
