AI School Leadership Minute: Important AI Curriculum Announcement

AI School Leadership Minute: 12/17/2024

This week’s AI School Leadership Minute is a bit different. As you build your 2025-2026 master schedule, I have important info:

Starting next school year, schools are bringing in Gruvy Education’s one-semester, standards-aligned, plug-and-play AI curriculum that any teacher can deliver.

Here are the three big details:

  1. Course Description: This semester-long course teaches 11th and 12th-grade students how to use AI as a real-world tool. Students gain skills, knowledge, and ethical awareness through hands-on projects. They learn AI basics, ethics, and real-world uses based on their interests and career goals.

  2. This will align with all standards. Any teacher with any license will be able to deliver the course.

  3. Turnkey plug-and-play curriculum with pre-recorded lessons. Ready-made activities and projects. Everything is ready to go—just press play and deliver. Any teacher will be able to do it.

This curriculum will come with the following:

  1. Support:

    • A live, one-day workshop to train teachers who will implement the curriculum.

    • Monthly coaching calls for teachers who are delivering the curriculum.

    • A support number that teachers delivering the curriculum can call.

  2. School-wide PD:

    • An asynchronous version of Gruvy Education’s AI Training for all staff. This has been adopted by 100+ schools.

    • Free enrollment for your school leaders into an “AI Leadership Coaching Mastermind.”

  3. Media and Communication Help:

    • 3 Media Kits: Parent/Community, Teacher AI Excellence, Press Recognition

    • Parent Outreach Playbook

What this will solve for you:

  1. Teacher challenges:

    • Lack of teacher confidence in delivering a course like this & teacher burnout from learning complex topics.

    • Lack of time to train a teacher to deliver a course like this.

    • Teacher resistance to new initiatives.

  2. Educational Alignment:

    • Lack of alignment with emerging university programs surrounding AI.

    • AI will be a part of every job students take on in the future. This course helps students apply AI to their passions and career goals. The future won’t wait. Just as importantly, students need to understand how others use AI to control the information they see—and how this shapes their worldview.

  3. Administrative Concerns:

    • Risk of falling behind other districts.

    • Fill the need for better CTE and technology opportunities without needing a new teacher with the skill.

I look forward to giving you an easy way to lead the way in preparing students for an AI-driven future.

To education innovation,
William Grube