Let me name the conversation that most principals are not having with their district yet but should be. AI tools are entering the teacher evaluation process. In some districts they are already there, generating rating recommendations from observation data, flagging patterns in walkthrough notes, summarizing evaluation portfolios. In most districts they are coming within two…
There is a version of this you tell people. The professionally managed version that shows up at district meetings. You are learning a lot. The staff is great. You are still figuring some things out. And there is the real version. The one that exists at 3am when you are running the Tuesday meeting through…
Every week, someone publishes something about what AI can do for school leaders. The scheduling it can optimize. The communications it can draft. The data it can analyze. That conversation is useful and mostly accurate. What I rarely see is the other half of the conversation. Not what AI can do — what it structurally…
Let me give you a number. The average principal works 58 hours a week. Research on AI’s impact on knowledge work tasks suggests that 20 to 40 percent of that time is spent on tasks that are now automatable with current tools. That is 12 to 23 hours per week. Call it 17 hours at…
Let me tell you what I know about the question in the title. I know it gets typed into Google late at night. I know it gets asked in whispered conversations at principal conferences when someone brings up the word AI and the room gets a little quieter. I know it is sitting underneath a…