Preparing Schools for AI: SEEDS at Lebanon AI Festival 2026
“Not all students will become AI engineers, but all of them will have to use AI one day.”
That was the message Dalia Raydan, Head of AI Programs and Strategic Delivery at ZAKA, brought to the Lebanon AI Festival 2026 on September 19 at Beirut Digital District.
Representing SEEDS, Dalia took the conversation about AI in education from the main stage to the classroom. She first introduced the SEEDS approach to AI education at BDD 1280, highlighting how schools can prepare their communities for a future where AI will increasingly be part of learning, work, and everyday life. Later that day, she led a practical workshop for educators focused on classroom management through the lens of AI.
Bringing AI Education to the Whole School
Dalia introduced how SEEDS supports schools at different levels from school leaders and educators to students with the goal of making AI education a meaningful part of the wider school environment.
The SEEDS offering includes:
- AI for Leadership
- Teacher training and practical AI tools
- Grade 4 to 12 AI Curriculum
- Student AI bootcamps
- School AI accreditation
Rather than treating AI as something that belongs only in a technology classroom, SEEDS takes a wholeschool approach. School leaders need to understand how AI can shape education, teachers need practical ways to use it in their classrooms, and students need opportunities to build AI literacy from an early stage.
The Grade 4 to 12 AI curriculum gives students handson opportunities to understand how AI works, explore how it is being used in different contexts, and develop critical thinking and responsible AI habits. The aim is not simply to teach students how to use AI tools, but to help them become thoughtful and informed users of AI.
From the Stage to the Classroom
Later that day, Dalia brought the conversation into a more practical setting through “Classroom Management Through the Lens of AI” at BDD 1227 LGF, with more than 40 educators, coordinators, and education professionals attending.
The nontechnical workshop focused on a question teachers face every day:
How can AI help with classroom management?
Instead of starting with AI tools and asking teachers where they could use them, the session took the opposite approach: start with a real classroom challenge, then explore where AI could provide support.
Dalia introduced SEEDS HUB, the free platform for educators, and demonstrated Content Differentiator, showing how teachers can adapt learning materials to better respond to different classroom needs.
Participants then worked through different classroom scenarios and matched them with free SEEDS HUB tools that could help address those challenges. This gave educators the opportunity to move beyond simply hearing about AI and instead think about how it could fit into situations they already encounter in their classrooms.
The focus was not on using AI for the sake of using it. It was about starting with a real educational need, understanding the challenge, and finding a practical AIsupported solution.
Building AIReady Schools
The conversation at Lebanon AI Festival highlighted an important part of the SEEDS approach: becoming AIready is not only about giving students access to AI tools.
It requires schools to think about leadership, teacher capacity, curriculum, classroom practice, and student readiness together.
Through its curriculum, training, tools, bootcamps, and school support, SEEDS is working toward making AI education more accessible and practical for schools helping educators and students move from simply hearing about AI to understanding how to use it thoughtfully and responsibly.
At Lebanon AI Festival 2026, that message was brought to both the stage and the classroom: AI education is not only about preparing future AI specialists. It is about preparing every learner to navigate a world where AI will be part of their education, work, and everyday lives.