Professional development programs are shifting teachers from surface‑level AI use to more sophisticated, agentic tools that support curriculum design and instructional judgment. A National Academy for AI Instruction partnership backed by unions and major AI developers is training hundreds of thousands of teachers to use AI as an instructional partner rather than a content generator. At the same time, colleges report more students turning to social media for AI help—using communities and short‑form content as first lines of inquiry before institutional tools. The behavior raises concerns about academic integrity, uneven adoption and the need for institutions to offer clear guidance and scalable training on trustworthy AI use for learning. Education leaders say the priority is to upskill educators so they remain the intellectual authority in classroom‑AI interactions, while ensuring access, ethics training and assessment policies keep pace with rapid tool adoption.