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psd401.aiMay 2026
Build Products Our Agents Can Use
A call for edtech vendors to stop bolting on chatbots and make their products usable by district-owned AI agents, with a five-level "agent-ready" rubric for vendors, districts and standards bodies.
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AI as a Capacity Builder, Not a Classroom Distraction
Why AI earns its place in schools only when it strengthens what educators can already do and is tied to instructional priorities rather than adopted for its own sake.
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The Integration of AI in Education
A CIO's view, after 25 years in education technology, of what it takes to weave AI into teaching and district operations.
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2026
2 pieces- May 2026psd401.aiBuild Products Our Agents Can UseA call for edtech vendors to stop bolting on chatbots and make their products usable by district-owned AI agents, with a five-level "agent-ready" rubric for vendors, districts and standards bodies.
- Mar 2026Education Technology InsightsAI as a Capacity Builder, Not a Classroom DistractionWhy AI earns its place in schools only when it strengthens what educators can already do and is tied to instructional priorities rather than adopted for its own sake.
2025
2 pieces- 2025Education Technology InsightsThe Integration of AI in EducationA CIO's view, after 25 years in education technology, of what it takes to weave AI into teaching and district operations.
- Jan 2025psd401.aiVisiting Stanford AI Tinkery Gives Educators Deeper Understanding and Insights into AI IntegrationSix Peninsula teachers and staff spend a day at Stanford's AI Tinkery exploring AI-literacy resources and prototyping a chatbot that coaches teachers on Universal Design for Learning.
2024
2 pieces- Dec 2024psd401.aiWelcome to the Peninsula School District AI Knowledge Sharing HubWhy the district built psd401.ai as a public home for its AI work, what each section holds, and how other educators can contribute.
- Nov 2024AASA School AdministratorApplying AI for Operational Purposes in a DistrictHow Peninsula School District put generative AI to work behind the scenes, from HR to data analysis, after making innovation part of its strategic plan.
2023
4 pieces- Jul 2023CoSNPost Plagiarism and The Development of District AI ActionsUsing the story of drafting Peninsula's AI principles with ChatGPT's help, an argument for embracing human-AI co-writing instead of trying to police it.
- Jun 2023MediumThe Critical Need for Enhanced Data Access and AI IntegrationA follow-up to the CoSN interoperability post, with hands-on examples of asking AI plain-language questions about school data and a case for vendors providing secure, anonymized data access.
- May 2023CoSNAI is Poised to Change the Future of Education: Data Interoperability and Privacy Need to be the FoundationReflections from ASU+GSV 2023 on why AI's promise for schools depends on getting data interoperability and student privacy right first.
- Feb 2023Education Technology InsightsEmbrace ChatGPT and reap the benefits of AI technology in the classroomAn early case, written weeks after ChatGPT arrived, for teaching with generative AI instead of banning it, drawn from Peninsula's own deliberations.
2022
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