The Instructional Leader’s AI Playbook: Practical Strategies for Principals Driving School Improvement at Scale

Principals are expected to be instructional leaders, technology implementers, culture architects and community builders, all at once and without adequate time or support. This facilitated round table discussion equips campus leaders with a practical AI Playbook spanning five domains of instructional leadership: learning walk data collection and synthesis, coaching conversations, professional development design, student progress monitoring, and family and community communication. Drawing on frameworks for equity-centered instructional improvement and district-tested strategies, engage in structured peer dialogue, analyze real-world scenarios and plan collaboratively. Learn how to evaluate AI tools against an equity framework before adopting them. Designed as a true conversation rather than a lecture, this is space for the honest, peer-to-peer dialogue about AI adoption that principals rarely get to have. Leave with the playbook, peer dialogue protocols that can grow into a cross-district network, and a personalized 90-day AI Integration Roadmap, completed during the session, built around your own school improvement goals.