AI for School Leaders: 62 Ways to Lighten Your Workload
and Focus on What Matters
This practical guide helps school leaders leverage the power of AI to explore possible solutions to problems and generate actionable steps toward positive change.
The 62 strategies in this book will help leaders – including those with limited technical knowledge – use AI tools to address critical aspects of leadership in education, such as collaborative decision-making, building relationships and trust, personalized professional learning, data analysis, and parent and community engagement.
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The 62 strategies in this book will help leaders – including those with limited technical knowledge – use AI tools to address critical aspects of leadership in education, such as collaborative decision-making, building relationships and trust, personalized professional learning, data analysis, and parent and community engagement.
Listen or Read More About Generative AI for School Leaders
Vickie Echols, MEd
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Hello - I'm Vickie
With over 30 years in education, I've had the privilege of serving in a variety of roles from classroom teacher to district-wide leader. My journey has included teaching, leading schools as a campus principal, coordinating curriculum, directing an education foundation, and spearheading communications. Today, I'm passionate about working with educators as a school transformation consultant at Wellness for Educators. My expertise lies in transforming schools, integrating artificial intelligence, developing leaders, and improving school systems. Read more about me and connect to share ideas. I look forward to connecting with you and your team. |
The idea for my book, "AI for School Leaders," came from my own experience as a school leader. I saw the potential of AI to revolutionize the way we work and wanted to help others harness that power. As a leader, I found it challenging to find the right balance between work and personal life, but I knew that maintaining a work-life balance was crucial, especially in education.
These experiences shaped the book's content. I wanted to provide practical solutions to real-world issues and explore how technology can be used for the collective good. While the book is written primarily for school administrators, the ideas can apply to any leader, from the classroom to the boardroom.
These experiences shaped the book's content. I wanted to provide practical solutions to real-world issues and explore how technology can be used for the collective good. While the book is written primarily for school administrators, the ideas can apply to any leader, from the classroom to the boardroom.
Read what these Distinguished Experts Are Saying:
Couched in the real need for balance in educators’ busy lives, this innovative, ground-breaking, and accessible work offers administrators every AI essential, initial step-by-step instruction, and sophisticated cautions to avoid missteps. All educators will appreciate the 61 practical protocols alongside guiding principles to refine prompts and leverage AI. Echols’s encouraging, even joyful, strategies will open closed minds to the power, positivity, creativity, and potential of AI as a tool to benefit students, schools, and communities.
Sherron K. Roberts, EdD
Professor of Language Arts and Literacy Education
Sherron K. Roberts, EdD
Professor of Language Arts and Literacy Education
Artificial intelligence can be a tremendous time-saver for school leaders, but it's easy to overlook the best opportunities to use it across our numerous areas of responsibility. In AI for School Leaders, Vickie Echols highlights the key conceptual, ethical, and practical challenges in using generative AI to increase our productivity. Deeply informed by Vickie's years of experience as an educator, this book is loaded with specific scenarios, prompts, and cautions for school leaders who want to use AI effectively and responsibly.
Justin Baeder, PhD
Director, The Principal Center
Justin Baeder, PhD
Director, The Principal Center
Gathering from her 30+ years in education as a teacher and school leader, Vickie intentionally weaves together her expertise and experience with her endless appetite for the power of AI. The result is AI for School Leaders, an insightful and practical guide, jam-packed with creative and action-oriented strategies for incorporating AI into your daily routine to support your overall wellbeing. Vickie's infectious enthusiasm for AI and her authentic care for educators, students, and the field of education at large is palpable. Whether you're a school or district leader or an aspiring teacher leader, let Vickie be your guide in harnessing AI to bolster you and those you care for, both professionally and personally.
Dr. Kathryn Kennedy
Founder of Consult4Ed Group & Wellness for Educators
Dr. Kathryn Kennedy
Founder of Consult4Ed Group & Wellness for Educators
Vickie Echols has created a guide for maximizing time by using AI as a beneficial tool in the school setting. This book provides leaders with robust strategies for using AI to enhance day to day routines and administrative duties. Additionally, she offers educational leaders tips and tools for safely utilizing AI to create real change in their own school settings. As I read the book, I could envision campus principals implementing these AI tools to reduce mundane tasks, and as a result, spend more time interacting with students and teachers. Principals can use many of the tools and strategies to create an innovative learning culture on their campuses.
TJ Farler, EdD
Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership at Texas A&M University-Commerce
Retired Superintendent, Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction, and Campus Principal
Vickie Echols has created a guide for maximizing time by using AI as a beneficial tool in the school setting. This book provides leaders with robust strategies for using AI to enhance day to day routines and administrative duties. Additionally, she offers educational leaders tips and tools for safely utilizing AI to create real change in their own school settings. As I read the book, I could envision campus principals implementing these AI tools to reduce mundane tasks, and as a result, spend more time interacting with students and teachers. Principals can use many of the tools and strategies to create an innovative learning culture on their campuses.
TJ Farler, EdD
Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership at Texas A&M University-Commerce
Retired Superintendent, Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction, and Campus Principal
In “AI for School Leaders” Ms. Echols presents an introduction to artificial intelligence for newcomers and paints a clear picture of the benefits such a tool can provide to school leaders at all levels. Her guide has a variety of useful prompts to assist in everything from improving staff morale to updating operational systems and everything in between. She also takes time to name concerns about over reliance, privacy, and academic integrity; important considerations for every school to be aware of as we find more and more aspects of our work altered by AI. Her ideas and suggestions are grounded in ISTE standards and built upon years of experience in education. The practical suggestions found in this book will benefit any educator looking to improve their practice and streamline their workflow.
Brandon Smith
TN Dept of Education, Computer Science Education
Brandon Smith
TN Dept of Education, Computer Science Education
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