AI Guidance Starter Pack

Practical templates and tools for responsible AI use.

Your staff are already asking. A parent is going to ask soon. And right now, if someone asked "what's our approach to AI," the honest answer might depend on who they asked.

The AI Guidance Starter Pack gives your leadership team real starting language — not a finished policy, not legal advice, but the structure and drafts you need to have the right conversation with your team, your district, and your families before you're improvising the answer in the moment.

What's Inside — 12 Editable Word Documents:

• The Full Guide, with a clickable table of contents — walks through all ten sections start to finish
• AI Guiding Principles — your school's philosophy on AI, in one page
• Leadership Expectations — what leaders themselves commit to modeling
• Staff Acceptable-Use Guidance — a three-tier list: appropriate, use caution, and prohibited, each with real examples
• Human Judgment vs. AI — a quick-reference table for where AI can help and where a person must decide
• Confidentiality Checklist — six questions to run through before entering anything into an AI tool
• Quick AI Decision Check — a fast, seven-question gate for any single use-case decision
• Family Communication Letter — ready to adapt and send
• Staff FAQ — the five questions staff actually ask, answered plainly
• Staff Discussion Agenda — a structured 45-minute meeting to introduce expectations
• 30-Day Adoption Plan — a four-week rollout with a built-in implementation tracker
• Start Here — a one-page index so your team knows exactly where to begin

Format: 12 fully editable Microsoft Word documents (.docx), delivered as a single downloadable folder. Every document includes a School/Organization, Effective Date, and Review Date field, ready to fill in and revise as your guidance evolves.

An Important Note: This is a leadership starting point, not legal advice or a substitute for your district's policy, legal counsel, or collective bargaining requirements. Every document is built to be adapted with your team and reviewed by your district, technology, and legal contacts before anything is formally adopted.

Who This Is For: Principals, assistant principals, and school leadership teams who need to move from scattered, informal AI use to something documented and shared — without pretending to be legal or policy experts themselves.

Pairs naturally with the AI Leadership Checklist and AI Prompt Library — same leadership-first approach, different part of the work.