AI for School Leaders: 62 Ways to Lighten Your Workload and Focus on What Matters

A guide for effectively using artificial intelligence (AI) to ease some of the pressures felt by school leaders. The author references many current research studies that demonstrate the high levels of performance and stress that school leaders face as they try to meet the expectations of today’s world. Echols argues that by learning to use AI, school leaders will reduce the time required to complete repetitive administrative tasks and gain time for relationship building and personal well-being. Readers learn about generative AI in Chapter One, and Echols identifies how to write and frame AI prompts to generate maximum positive results. Using AI safely is a natural extension that Echols details in Chapter Two. With various dilemmas presented to ponder, the author offers scenario solutions with options for particular circumstances to help guide school leaders in addressing their particular issues. Chapters Three through Seven offer more than 60 practical uses for AI by school leaders aligned to the ISTE Education Leader standards. ­Chapter topics include collaborative decision-making, supportive relationships and trust, personalized professional learning, data management and school improvement, and family and community engagement. These chapters are all arranged similarly: each topic covers a problem, its solution, and an example of a prompt to use with AI. Some also discuss acceleration and cautionary aspects. The highlight of each chapter is the ­s­tep-by-step creation of ­appropriate prompts that elicit the information requested. Questions at the end of each chapter help deepen understanding through reflection and conversation, and back matter includes AI resources, glossary, references, and an index.