Leading With AI, People at Every Call: Building a School-Wide System
Every school runs systems, from events and surveys to schedules and student placements. AI can take on much of the work within these systems, but people still need to decide what matters.
In this session, two middle school coaches share how they used AI to manage a whole-school student choice day for approximately 480 students, from the initial survey to the final catalog of activities. AI helped draft surveys, including a simpler version for Grade 6, turn every teacher’s proposal into a draft plan with the same six components, test student placements against actual choices from the previous April, and create the pictures, videos, and slides students used to make their selections.
Throughout the process, people remained responsible for every decision: what to ask, what to offer, what each picture should show, and where each student should be placed.
Participants will leave with five practical steps to apply to a system at their own school and a simple framework for deciding what AI can handle and what must remain a human decision.
Facilitated By
Luis Carlos Moreno Rivero
Middle School Instructional Technology Coach, Shanghai American School, Puxi
Luis Carlos Moreno is the Middle School Instructional Technology Coach at Shanghai American School, Puxi. Born in rural Venezuela, he moved to Panama at 19 and has lived in the United States, Laos and India before China. A systems engineer by training, he worked in data analysis at one of Panama’s biggest telecommunication companies, then found his way into teaching through robotics. Since then he has been an IT head, a learning support specialist, a math teacher, an EdTech coordinator and a coach, always doing the same thing: finding the gaps in a school’s systems and building solutions that free teachers and students for what matters most. At the American International School Chennai he co-created the HUMAN Framework for ethical AI and shared it at AIFE Bangkok and Jakarta. He believes technology should serve people, not the other way around. Outside school he writes short stories and designs escape rooms.
