Human Still Required / Field Notes
Teachers Pay Teachers will ban AI-generated teaching resources. But “AI-free” isn’t a quality standard. School leaders need a review standard: every resource checked and owned by a professional.
Read article: AI-Free Isn’t a Quality Standard. Judgment Is.More than half of New York districts lack a board-adopted AI policy. But no policy is still a policy. Leaders need shared thinking staff can use, not just a document.
Read article: No District AI Policy Is Still a PolicyTeachers are using AI faster than systems are building shared understanding. AI professional learning has to start with leaders, name decision owners and become an ongoing system, not a one-time session.
Read article: AI Licenses Aren’t a Strategy. Learning Systems Are.AI teacher evaluations raise a trust question before a technology one. AI can help prepare an evaluation, but the ratings and judgment must be the leader’s own, and staff should know how AI is used.
Read article: AI Can Draft the Evaluation. The Judgment Has to Be Yours.Students mostly support in-class phone limits but oppose all-day bans. How leaders make this cellphone ban policy decision, by listening first, sets the pattern for AI policy next.
Read article: Cellphone Ban Policy Is a Listening Test for LeadersTeachers are redesigning assessment for AI one classroom at a time. Leaders should turn those solo fixes into a shared definition of what counts as evidence of student thinking.
Read article: Teachers Are Redesigning for AI Alone. That’s a Leadership Gap.AI can produce the polished products schools have long rewarded. Leaders now need shared language for human achievement that rewards visible thinking, not just finished work.
Read article: AI Can Polish the Work. It Can’t Earn the Achievement.Student AI use is rising, and most high schoolers learn it on their own. Leaders need a plan to teach the thinking, so students build skill, not just better finished products.
Read article: Students Are Learning AI on Their Own. Who’s Teaching the Thinking?Student AI concerns, from a New York walkout to Connecticut teachers’ worries about reading, are guidance, not resistance. Leaders should name what school will protect and bring students into the conversation.
Read article: Students Are Protesting AI. Leaders Should Ask What They Protect.AI in schools is an adaptive problem, not a technical one. Leaders make progress through structured listening, trusted partners and local learning, not top-down mandates or shaky research claims.
Read article: AI Isn’t a Technical Problem. Lead It Like an Adaptive One.
