Education pilots are moving beyond demonstrations: district staff in Albuquerque built a chatbot to scale mentoring for new teachers, and a Colorado district used AI to co‑design a middle‑school course about artificial intelligence. Both projects reveal the tech’s practical benefits for scaling expertise and accelerating course development. But implementers caution that AI requires heavy human oversight. Developers reported hallucinations, mismatched standards, and lengthy iterative work to align outputs with local curricula. The experiences show districts can gain efficiency from bespoke AI tools, but must invest in technical mentoring, data curation and governance.