AI Leadership Checklist

A practical readiness guide for school leaders. Lead with clarity. Lead with confidence.

Your staff are already using AI. Your board hasn't asked about your policy yet. A parent hasn't emailed with a question you don't have an answer to — yet. This is the moment before the moment. How you use it determines whether you're leading this, or catching up to it later.

The AI Leadership Checklist walks your leadership team through six areas every school needs to get honest about — not as a technology audit, but as a leadership one. Because the schools struggling most with AI right now aren't behind on tools. They're behind on systems.

What's Inside:

• A working checklist across six leadership capabilities: Vision & Expectations, Leadership Decision Systems, Adult Capacity, Responsible Implementation, Communication & Trust, and Continuous Improvement
• A Quick Win for every section — something your team can act on this week, not someday
• An AI Assist for each area, showing exactly where a prompt can help you move faster
• A Leader Judgment Required reminder on every page, because AI drafts — you decide
• A Reflection question per section, with space to actually write your answer
• A 30-Day Action Plan to turn what you find into real next steps
• 10 pages, instant digital download (PDF)

Who This Is For: Principals, assistant principals, and school leadership teams who want to move into this moment intentionally — not principals looking for a tech tutorial. This is a leadership tool first. AI is just the context.

How to Use It: Work through it with your team, not alone. Check what's true. Leave the rest unchecked. Let the gaps tell you where to start.

Pairs perfectly with the AI Prompt Library for School Leaders — same six-capability framework, ready-to-use prompts for the work itself.