OpenAI introduced ChatGPT for Teachers, a dedicated, privacy-protected environment that offers teacher-specific prompts, collaboration tools and free access until June 2027. Leah Belsky, OpenAI’s vice president for education, said the offering is designed to help educators integrate AI safely and effectively into instruction and that the company has trained hundreds of thousands of teachers in partnership with unions. The product marks OpenAI’s first formal K–12 launch and renews district-level discussions about classroom AI governance, student data protections and equitable access. Schools and districts will need to decide how to incorporate the tool into lesson planning while preserving FERPA and state privacy obligations. For higher education leaders watching K–12 adoption, the rollout underscores acceleration of teacher-facing AI tools and signals potential demand for faculty-development equivalents tailored to college instruction.