Lesson 2 of 4 · about 5 min
Your first AI wins: 5 everyday tasks
When you finish, you can run five leadership writing tasks with AI and check each.
Stuck? Ask the AI tutorWin 1: The family newsletter
Weak prompt: “Write a newsletter.” Strong prompt: “Draft a one-page newsletter for families of a primary school covering a picnic, testing week and a new pickup routine. Grade 6 reading level, headings, short sentences. Placeholders for dates.”
Check for: every date, time and rule. Invented details are common in drafts. For families who speak other languages, use an approved translation approach for important notices.
Win 2: Meeting agendas that decide things
Weak prompt: “Make an agenda.” Strong prompt: “Create a 40-minute staff meeting agenda with these topics: [list]. For each, give a time, an owner placeholder and whether the outcome is inform, discuss or decide.”
Check for: whether the time fits and whether decisions are really on the agenda. A good meeting leaves people knowing what happens next.
Win 3: Plain-language handbook text
Weak prompt: “Simplify this.” Strong prompt: “Rewrite at grade 7 level, keeping all rules and numbers the same. Then list any sentence where the meaning may have changed.”
Check for: changed obligations. A softer word can change a rule. Compare line by line and, for binding policy, have the right person approve it.
Win 4: Policy options
Weak prompt: “Write our AI policy.” Strong prompt: “Offer three policy approaches for student AI use in secondary school, from restrictive to permissive, each with benefits, risks and sample wording for two clauses.”
Check for: fit with your local law, board rules and community values. The options are a starting menu. Staff, families, students and legal advisers help choose and finalize.
Win 5: A tool review checklist
Weak prompt: “Is this app safe?” Strong prompt: “Create a table-based checklist for reviewing a proposed AI tool: data collected, storage location, age limits, use of data for model training, parent notice, accessibility, cost and exit plan.”
Check for: questions your area requires, such as local data rules. Ask vendors to answer in writing. Do not rely on a vendor’s marketing claims, and do not ask a chatbot whether a product is safe.
Practice now
- Pick one win. Write a weak and strong prompt, run both and compare.
- Use the tool-review checklist idea on one app already used in your school. Note which questions you cannot answer yet.
Use any AI assistant you have. Do not paste private, client or patient information into it.
Check yourself
1. What should you do with an AI-written newsletter?
2. Why list changed meanings after a plain-language rewrite?
3. Who finalizes an AI policy?
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