Professional learning for everyone who runs a school, cabinet to classroom. Shaped by who shows up, not by a deck.
Student use, academic integrity, what to allow and what to block. Real questions, and they have absorbed nearly all of the attention.
Meanwhile the work that fills the week belongs to adults. Board packets and community communication in the central office. Planning and family contact for teachers. Scheduling, purchasing, and compliance for the people who keep the building open. That is the part no vendor is paying attention to, and it is where the load sits heaviest.
A session built for that work fills seats, because everyone there is carrying the same thing.
A school system is not one audience. The people who run it, the people who teach in it, and the people who keep it open all carry different work, so they get different sessions.
The people who run the district. Governance, board work, finance, and the constant triage that fills a leader's week.
Who attends: Superintendents, assistant superintendents, business officials, and central office directors.
Written for the work that eats a prep period, on the same principle as the leadership session.
Who attends: Classroom teachers, instructional coaches, department leads, and curriculum staff.
The practice behind all of it
The least-served group in every AI conversation, and often the one with the most repeatable work.
Who attends: Front office, business office, HR, technology, transportation, and facilities teams.
Any of the three sessions above runs in any of these shapes. The format follows the calendar and the budget, not the other way around.
The format that has run four times. Long enough to build something live, short enough to fit a member calendar.
A cabinet, a building leadership team, or a department. Deeper, and the afternoon works on what the morning surfaced.
Stage format for an association meeting or conference. Shorter, no laptops required, still built on real work rather than slides.
For districts too far to reach or budgets too thin to travel. Same session, same live building, no mileage.
Repeat bookings are how this actually grows. A service center can run the leadership session in the fall and the teacher session in the spring.
The agenda is real, and it moves with whoever is sitting there. Demos get built on the work the people in front of me just named, which is why the same session lands differently every time it runs.
The honest state of the technology, and the parts of a school system it skipped. Not the classroom debate everyone has already had.
Built live with current tools, on whatever that group actually does. Board reporting for a cabinet. A unit plan for teachers. A purchase order for an operations team.
Peer to peer. People bring their real problems and the answers stay practical.
Tables in a U, because people should be talking to each other and not to the front.
The same session gets bought for different reasons. One of these is probably yours.
Two booked for this fall
Region 8 and SIEC both put it on the member calendar. A service center earns its dues by offering something member districts cannot build alone, and an AI session written for the adults in a school system is not sitting on anyone else's shelf.
Delivered July 2026
Red 7 Networking and Willow Run Group split the New Albany session in July. Two organizations wanted the same superintendents in one place, so they hosted it together and each got what they came for.
A district that owns its calendar can run this as a leadership day, a teacher session, or both across a year, without waiting for a service center to schedule one.
A program chair filling a slate needs a session that is not a vendor demo. The conference format is shorter, needs no laptops, and still gets built on the work those people actually do.
Not slides. A readiness guide written for the people who were actually there, a set of workflows that hold up the following Monday, and a one-page account of what a peer Indiana district actually produced with this.
The July session had a printed copy at every seat and a portal afterward. The materials are the reason people write back a week later.
“Typically, a workshop or conference adds things to my to-do list, and your information simplified my life. What I learned from you has changed the way that I use AI.”
What is booked and what has run. Some of these are open to anyone. Others are held for a service center and its member districts, and are listed because they show where this works.
Hosted by Region 8 Education Service Center. Region 8 ESC, Indiana.
Superintendents and central office leaders across Region 8 member districts. Half-day working session.
Hosted for Region 8 Education Service Center and its member districts. Not open to outside registration.
Hosted by Southern Indiana Education Center.
Superintendents, assistant superintendents, and business officials. Half-day working session.
Hosted for Southern Indiana Education Center and its member districts. Not open to outside registration.
Two organizations wanted the same audience for different reasons, so they split the cost and filled it together.
No pitch deck and no pressure. Tell Steve who would be there and he will tell you honestly whether this is worth the date.
