AI is now part of how you lead.
Every school runs on two engines: the classroom and the institution behind it. The public conversation about AI in K-12 has been about the classroom; the leadership work landing on your desk is about the institution.
Practical AI and operations content for senior leadership of K-12 private schools — independent and faith-based.
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You don't need a tutorial on AI. You need a position you can articulate and a plan you can stand behind. Frameworks, exercises, and writing are currently for school heads and enrollment leaders.
More roles in the works
Content for business officers, development leaders, and marketing & communications leaders is taking shape. The same operations and strategy lens is applied to their work.
The Library
Frameworks, short reads, videos, and exercises on AI and school operations. Tagged by role, so business officers, enrollment directors, and other school leaders can find relevant resources.
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ARTICLE · THE ARGUMENT
The Redesign Is Coming. Private Schools Should Lead It.
Three days at the largest AI conference there is, and one idea each from Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, and Andrew Ng. Together they assembled into an argument I did not board the plane expecting to make: the redesign of how children learn is coming, someone will lead it, and our schools hold the one asset that leading it requires.
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SHORT READ · THE FRAME
AI Literacy ≠ AI Fluency
Literacy is orientation: knowing what AI can do, where it struggles, and where your judgment still has to carry. Fluency is execution: using it confidently in real administrative work. Once you have a name for that gap, you start to notice it in nearly every conversation about AI in your school.
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VIDEO · A DEMONSTRATION
Board Report to Decision Tool
Strategic leaders have always been told to be data-driven. But what if you have never been especially comfortable in a spreadsheet? A flat report your school already produced becomes a what-if planning tool, with net tuition revenue moving in real time as the assumptions change. One AI prompt, start to finish.
Watch video →The Frontier Test · A Research Project
Four roles, one question
I asked three of the most capable AI models — answering separately and blind — which part of each job is about to go obsolete, and which part is about to become the real source of your value. Here is what came back, one seat at a time.
Today's AI Impact on the Role of Head of School
Of the four roles, this is the one where AI reaches the center of the job rather than its edges. The argument is that it concentrates a head's edge rather than eroding it, and that deciding what AI may never touch has become executive work no one else at the school can do.
Read more →Today's AI Impact on the Role of Enrollment Director
Two shifts arriving at once, one inside your office and one inside the family's living room. It works through what is losing its value across the funnel, and why the judgment on fit becomes the clear center of the job.
Read more →Today's AI Impact on the Role of Business Officer
The model only you could build, and only you could safely touch, was the right call under the constraints you actually had. This is the read on what changes when the construction labor becomes cheap and the financial judgment inside the model becomes the whole of the value.
Read more →Today's AI Impact on the Role of Advancement Director
Advancement runs on something no algorithm has ever produced. The shift threatens the busywork surrounding the relationship while raising the value of the relationship itself, and it makes the case that advancement may be the office best positioned to lead the school on AI.
Read more →The Field Guides
A field guide for your seat.
AI lands differently in every chair. Each guide is the complete, quarterly-updated map for one of them: what AI changes, what it doesn’t, and what to do in what order.
The Head of School Field Guide to AI
The whole-school view from the head’s chair. What AI genuinely changes about strategy, governance, people leadership, and crisis readiness — and what to do about it, in what order.
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The Enrollment Director Field Guide to AI
The enrollment seat. The funnel from inquiry to signed contract, the data line around family information, and the market read behind a plan you can defend.
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