Educators Writing Their Own Rules — The Eastern Caribbean's Co-Developed AI Curriculum, Policy and Code of Conduct for Teacher Education

In November 2025 the Commonwealth of Learning and the School of Education at The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, agreed to support the Eastern Caribbean Joint Board of Teacher Education (ECJBTE) in developing shared guidance on responsible AI use in teacher education across five states, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Saint Lucia, St Kitts and Nevis, and St Vincent and the Grenadines.

Ten regional representatives took part in a one-day online preparatory session in January 2026, followed by a five-day regional workshop in February 2026 to draft three public goods, an AI curriculum framework, an AI policy, and an AI code of conduct for teacher-education institutions, led by Dr Laurette Bristol, Director of the UWI Cave Hill School of Education and Chair of the ECJBTE, who framed the effort as reaching teacher educators as 'one of the most marginalised groups of educators.'

In April 2026 the drafts went through an online validation workshop involving at least 40 regional participants, and a related strand of the same regional conversation surfaced at the ECJBTE's own annual meeting, where Barbados's Director of Tertiary Education, Dr Roderick Rudder, called for a shift toward authentic, higher-order assessment as students increasingly use AI tools in school-based assessments.

As of the most recent reporting the three documents remain in draft and validation stage, with no student-facing rollout, teacher-training course, or measured classroom outcome yet published, though the Commonwealth of Learning states a follow-on AI training course for teachers is planned.