Insights
Essays on AI, formation, and the work of leading a school, and, starting in November, a weekly practical series for teachers, staff, and leaders.
A room for slow, careful reading
§ I · Starting mid-November
Each week takes a pain point from school life and works it through in ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini: the problem, the guardrails that keep the work human, the steps, and a 60 to 90 second animated walkthrough you can follow along with.
Free and open to everyone.
§ II · Latest writing
Longer pieces for school leaders and teachers thinking carefully about what AI should and should not do in a school.
The frontier labs have asked to slow down, and school leaders may hear that as permission to wait. The capability already in your building carries five to ten years of work ahead of it, and the narratives of fear, from every direction, should not be doing your thinking for you.
March 21, 2026
A practical, equity-conscious plagiarism detection framework for Christian schools: five checkpoints, three-of-five threshold, and why false accusations are worse than being duped.
March 21, 2026
What Christian schools could look like in five to ten years if we get AI adoption right: less tech in the classroom, more humanity, and a fundamentally restructured model of education.
March 21, 2026
Before Christian schools can lead on AI, they need to sit with two griefs: AI’s arrival on exhausted ground, and the industrial model’s inherent brokenness that AI might finally fix.
March 21, 2026
Two major EdTech initiatives spent $225 million promising to transform education through AI and software. Both failed. What Christian school leaders should learn from their mistakes.
March 21, 2026
A Harvard RCT showed AI tutoring outperforming classroom active learning with effect sizes of 0.73-1.3 SD. What this means for Christian schools, and why it does not mean replacing teachers.
March 19, 2026
Most conversations about AI in schools oscillate between two extremes: uncritical enthusiasm or paralyzing fear. Neither serves students well. Here is a better way to think about it.
§ III · Listen and watch
Podcast appearances and recorded conversations on AI, formation, and leading a school well.
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Curated, summarized research on learning and AI, with the Pedagogy Matrix to put it to work.
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