VISION: The CLEAR AI Initiative exists to center equity and justice in AI education and be a voice for our California communities who have little or no voice in the future of AI.
MISSION: CAI works to expand and amplify the voices, and increase the participation, of underserved California communities across the AI ecosystem. We work to empower educational justice that serves a diverse society today and creates a future for everyone.
OUR APPROACH: CAI is working statewide, focused locally in the Central Valley, California, to build just models of AI to enable and empower educational justice. We work to build AI models for justice that can scale so that inequities, institutional racism, sexism, and systemic oppression do not become encoded in the AI identity of the future. We do this through praxis, research, and policy: a) POLICY: raising awareness and support for aligned efforts centering equity and the needs of marginalized students and school communities when developing AI policy, guidance, and practice; co-designing equitable policy-development processes, intentional about who is included and reflecting the communities they intend to serve; b) RESEARCH: informing AI ethical considerations and the need for critical AI literacy among educators, education leaders, educational partners, students, families, and school communities grounded in literature and best/next practices and action research; c) PRAXIS: co-creating meaningful praxis projects directly with involved education ecosystems that reflect the specific needs of underserved communities, broadly sharing findings from our action research praxis, and co-developing grant proposals for professional development for administrators, teachers, and support staff to build capacity for effective integration of AI in education.
OUR HISTORY: The Center for Leadership, Equity, and Research (CLEAR) has a twenty-year history of work that centers social justice and equity leadership. To ensure CLEAR’s work continues to be relevant and impactful, CLEAR Executive Director Ken Magdaleno, recognizing the profound impacts that artificial intelligence will have on the core CLEAR mission of social justice and equity, initiated the CLEAR AI Initiative (CAI) in 2023.
Digitally Mediated Learning: Equity-centered professional learning for education leaders, cultivating critical literacy and youth civic engagement
Mary Lang
EdSAFE AI Alliance
Emerging Technologies and Data: Implications of emerging technologies and data on education justice
Ken Magdaleno, Ed.D.
CLEAR
Social Justice: Social justice and equity leadership
Sal Villasenor
CLEAR
Legislative Inclusion: AI Policy centering equity and educational justice early on in development cycle
Christian Wandeler, Ph.D.
CSU Fresno
Decision Science: Data related to improved decisions in education
Additional team members of the CAI, include:
Bella Santos is the CAI Director of Student Engagement. She has significantly contributed to environmental and ethnic studies, civic engagement and climate justice, and actively promotes critical AI literacy through community engagement and representation at educational conferences.
Upcoming CAI Events
Join us at the following events, presented by CAI team members.
CLEAR AI Initiative
What is the CLEAR AI Initiative (CAI)?
VISION: The CLEAR AI Initiative exists to center equity and justice in AI education and be a voice for our California communities who have little or no voice in the future of AI.
MISSION: CAI works to expand and amplify the voices, and increase the participation, of underserved California communities across the AI ecosystem. We work to empower educational justice that serves a diverse society today and creates a future for everyone.
OUR APPROACH: CAI is working statewide, focused locally in the Central Valley, California, to build just models of AI to enable and empower educational justice. We work to build AI models for justice that can scale so that inequities, institutional racism, sexism, and systemic oppression do not become encoded in the AI identity of the future. We do this through praxis, research, and policy: a) POLICY: raising awareness and support for aligned efforts centering equity and the needs of marginalized students and school communities when developing AI policy, guidance, and practice; co-designing equitable policy-development processes, intentional about who is included and reflecting the communities they intend to serve; b) RESEARCH: informing AI ethical considerations and the need for critical AI literacy among educators, education leaders, educational partners, students, families, and school communities grounded in literature and best/next practices and action research; c) PRAXIS: co-creating meaningful praxis projects directly with involved education ecosystems that reflect the specific needs of underserved communities, broadly sharing findings from our action research praxis, and co-developing grant proposals for professional development for administrators, teachers, and support staff to build capacity for effective integration of AI in education.
OUR HISTORY: The Center for Leadership, Equity, and Research (CLEAR) has a twenty-year history of work that centers social justice and equity leadership. To ensure CLEAR’s work continues to be relevant and impactful, CLEAR Executive Director Ken Magdaleno, recognizing the profound impacts that artificial intelligence will have on the core CLEAR mission of social justice and equity, initiated the CLEAR AI Initiative (CAI) in 2023.
CAI Team
Mary Lang, CLEAR’s first Chief Education Justice Officer, is directing the CLEAR AI Initiative. The CAI steering committee, a cross-functional group of area experts, provides guidance for the CAI.
Additional team members of the CAI, include:
Bella Santos is the CAI Director of Student Engagement. She has significantly contributed to environmental and ethnic studies, civic engagement and climate justice, and actively promotes critical AI literacy through community engagement and representation at educational conferences.
Upcoming CAI Events
Join us at the following events, presented by CAI team members.
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