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What Curriculum Leaders Need to Know About GenAI

Plus: Why you should be hoarding your knowledge

Hi everyone,

I’ve been working face-to-face this week in schools and at a meeting for the Independent Primary School Heads of Australia (IPSHA) I’ve had great conversations with school leaders, and one topic has come up again and again.

Despite all the policy and governance conversations we need to have in schools about AI, teaching and learning is still where the rubber hits the road.

I was a Director of Learning and Teaching myself, and a Head of English for many years. I know that schools often lead from the middle. I also know that policies driven from IT and business perspectives - though well meaning and important - often don’t align with classroom logic.

Curriculum leaders need a different approach to working with GenAI. I wrote more about it this week on the blog.

Hoard Your Knowledge, then Share It

I have been writing for years. I’ve published about a dozen books, hundreds of blog posts, and dozens of journal articles. But before I was a writer I was a teacher, and even then I wrote a lot.

I wrote lesson plans, scope and sequence, teaching materials. I wrote chapters for text books. I wrote emails and communications. And a lot of that writing is still an important part of my “body of work”.
We often forget about all of our expertise that has been gathering dust in digital or physical folders - tucked away in a corner of the office or a corner of our brains.
I want you to gather up that knowledge: hoard it, and then use AI to build with it.

Cheers,

Leon

PS: Early bird signups are now available for the Term 2 cohort of Practical AI for Curriculum Leaders, a six week, live and recorded intensive designed for Directors of Teaching and Learning, Assistant Principals of Curriculum, and Faculty Leaders.

The term 2 cohort is capped at 25 people, and spaces are filling.

​More info here​

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