The 60‑Minute Setup That Makes AI Actually Useful for School Leaders

Tuesday, March 24, 2026

The 60‑Minute Setup That Makes AI Actually Useful for School Leaders

8:30 AM-9:30 AM CT

This session covers the exact setup and prompt strategies that make AI genuinely useful for school leaders. This will include how to configure your settings so it already knows your context, how to get it to write in your voice, and how to prompt it so it stops giving you generic answers. In one hour, the way you use AI will change permanently.

Recording

Polls Resources Activities

Polls

Poll 1

Which AI tool do you use: ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, none, or something else? (Type below)

Your response

Poll 2

If you had to guess, what percent of your staff uses AI regularly? (Example answer: 40%)

Your response

Poll 3

What is one thing you regularly write that you will build an AI asset for?

Your response

Resources

ChatGPT Direct Link

Open resource

Gemini Direct Link

Open resource

Gruvy Education's Guide to Data Privacy With AI

Open resource

The Ultimate Educator Prompt Vault

Open resource

The Time-Saving AI Prompt Guide for School Leaders

Open resource

Use AI Without Giving Up Your Judgment

Open resource

Make ChatGPT Sound Like You (Using AI Assets)

Open resource

Fix ChatGPT So It Actually Understands Your Role (5-Minute Setup)

Open resource

Get an AI PD Plan For Your Staff in 15 Minutes

Open resource

Activities

Activity 1: Exploring The Ultimate Educator Prompt Vault

Links needed

• ChatGPT
• Gemini
• Prompt Vault

Step-by-step directions

• Step 1: Click the "Prompt Vault" link in the "Links Needed for Activity" section above. Inside the Prompt Vault, find your department and click the "Click to open" link next to it. This will open a Google Doc with AI prompts made for your specific role. Read through the document and pick your favorite prompt. Use that prompt in ChatGPT.

Activity 2: Learn How to Design Effective ChatGPT Prompts with the Role, Action, Format, Context Framework

Links needed

• ChatGPT
• Gemini
• Prompt Guide

Step-by-step directions

• Step 1: Open and read the "Prompt Guide" from the "Links Needed for Activity" section to learn how to design very good AI prompts. Essentially, you want to give it a role, what it should do as that role, what format you would like to see the output in, and what context someone would need to produce a perfect result. Use the Role, Action, Format, Context Framework to design a prompt of your choosing. Send that prompt through ChatGPT.