AI Governance Consulting for K-12 Districts

A structured evaluation of your organization's governance gaps, decision rights, and implementation readiness. This involves direct conversations with the people who actually carry the work, structured around the four sections of the framework in the order they are designed to be addressed. Depending on the size of your district, this typically runs a half day to a full day. You walk away with a written report mapped directly to the framework, showing where you are strong, where the gaps are, and the order in which to close them. It closes with a short list of immediate next steps your team can act on right away.

A focused half-day or full-day working session to establish governance priorities, clarify decision authority, and build alignment before pilots begin. This is closed-door work for the superintendent and cabinet, the people who will actually own the decisions and the work, not a board-level conversation. Depending on where your district stands, the session can work through one or more sections of the framework in depth, or focus on a specific initiative already in motion. You walk away with clarity on who owns what and who carries ultimate accountability for it, whether that is the superintendent directly or someone they have designated.

A presentation and discussion designed to give board members the language and framework to ask the right questions about AI adoption in their district. This is built around open dialogue rather than a one-way presentation, giving board members room to ask questions and build real understanding without fear of feeling behind. Before meeting with the board, I meet with the superintendent directly to understand the specific board and shape the session accordingly. Depending on the board, the session can include hands-on time with AI tools themselves, building comfort alongside competency. Board members walk away equipped to answer their community's questions, with a glossary of terms they can return to for reference.

Ongoing monthly support for organizations navigating active AI initiatives. Strategic counsel, vendor evaluation support, and implementation oversight, available in whatever form fits the moment, a phone call, a Zoom session, time in person. This is built to flex around what your district actually needs that month, whether that means picking up where a readiness assessment or strategy session left off, or simply having direct access to governance counsel as decisions come up in real time.

Structured support for evaluating AI solutions and the vendors behind them before a commitment is made. This draws on advance knowledge of where your district stands and where it is headed, making sure the foundational work, the actual problem, who owns it, and whether the workflow is ready for it, is already in place before a vendor walks in the room. Depending on what you need, this can mean working through the right questions ahead of a demo, sitting in on the vendor conversation itself to provide an outside read, or debriefing immediately after the vendor leaves to help drive the decision forward. The value here is in the conversation itself, not a binder left behind.