{"id":193540,"date":"2026-03-16T14:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/193540\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T14:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:50:07","slug":"alpha-school-miami-using-ai-to-help-guide-academics-so-students-can-focus-on-life-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/193540\/","title":{"rendered":"Alpha School Miami using AI to help guide academics so students can focus on life skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new private school in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/miami\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Miami<\/a> is using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/artificial-intelligence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">artificial intelligence<\/a> (AI) to personalize lessons for students while shifting much of the school day toward hands-on learning.<\/p>\n<p>At\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.school\/miami\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alpha Miami<\/a>, students start the day on laptops working through individualized academic programs. School leaders say the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">technology<\/a> identifies gaps in what students know and adjusts lessons to their pace.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of traditional teachers, the school uses guides who act more like coaches. Some have a traditional education background, but most have diverse professional experience. They step in when students need help and lead workshops focused on life skills.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every adult who is working in this capacity works with the kids, so I&#8217;m not off in an office doing paperwork,&#8221; said Joshua Lesnie, the school&#8217;s head guide. &#8220;I&#8217;m in the classrooms.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lesnie said the artificial intelligence works behind the scenes rather than through chatbots.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The kids are not opening <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/chatgpt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">ChatGPT<\/a>. They&#8217;re not working in large language models,&#8221; Lesnie said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#8220;The AI sits behind the system. Detecting when you&#8217;re getting stuck. Feeding you the right support content,&#8221; he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>School leaders say using AI to streamline academics allows more time for hands-on workshops, from sports strategy to gardening.<\/p>\n<p>Alpha started in Austin, Texas and is expanding to major cities across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Tuition at the Miami campus runs about $40,000 to $50,000 a year, though the school says financial aid and scholarships are available.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Leaders also say the model works best for students who are self-motivated and comfortable working independently.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new private school in Miami is using artificial intelligence (AI) to personalize lessons for students while shifting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4038,89995,113,123,125,124,1064,807,1576],"class_list":["post-193540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-chatgpt","tag-education","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-dade","tag-south-florida","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}