Summer Kickoff — 45 Minutes

• Introduce yourself in two sentences. Say the promise: "45 minutes to a working mental model, where S2 stands, and one change you'll make."
• One failure story, not two. The lawyer's 21 invented cases is the sharper one for this room.
• Push the opening poll question, let it fill while you talk. Don't project the survey dashboard in this version unless it's already up.

• 0:04 — Beat 1 (2 min, two slides). The "cat sat on the ___" game, then the reveal that it's the same instinct at scale. Let them shout the word; the game is what makes the rest land.
• 0:06 — Beat 2 (1 min). king − man + woman ≈ queen. Say the subtraction out loud, land "math on meaning, not a lookup table," move.
• 0:07 — Beat 3 (90 sec). The engine. Bridge in with "this is the phrase you'll hear from parents and students — it sounds like a brain," walk the zoomed node once, then the crossword line: people design the grid, training fills in the letters.
• 0:09 — Beat 4 (1 min). Eiffel Tower, the nudge, then bias. Say the bias line clearly and once.
• Beat 5 is cut — the failure modes are covered properly in Block 6. On Beat 4, add "and it can be confidently wrong; we'll come to that at the end" so the thread isn't left hanging.

• Ninety seconds. Ask for their honest worry, take three, credit each one.
• Protect this even if you're behind. In a leadership room the unspoken objection is the thing that kills adoption later.

• Three slides: the posture, the five strict positions, red lines. The grade-bands slide is cut in this version — it's in the 90.
• Read the five strict positions aloud, slowly. That's the part this audience has to be able to repeat to their staff.
• If someone asks how it knows which meaning of a word you mean — there's Beat 2B (the last slide, press G to jump). Ninety seconds, then jump back. Don't volunteer it.
• If grade bands come up (and with principals they will), answer verbally in one line — "defaults by band, not verdicts; the teacher still sets the assignment" — and point them at the Staff AI Policy page rather than going back for the slide.
• Red lines is the slide to land hardest, including the school-account-not-personal-account point.

Four levels, eight slides: setup then payoff, every time

• 0:21 — framework + hinge (2 min). Name Level 1 verbally ("chat — you already know it"); its demo is cut.
• 0:23 — Level 2 setup. The budget, unmarked. Say "take fifteen seconds," then actually stop talking for fifteen seconds. The silence is the demo. Someone may spot the duplicate watermelon; nobody gets the buns.
• 0:25 — Level 2 payoff. Seven problems. Land the buns: "six of these are arithmetic. The seventh takes knowing a burger needs a bun — and I didn't plant it." Callback: "you looked for fifteen seconds, I looked for a week, neither of us caught it."
• 0:27 — Level 3 setup. Read the generic email flatly. It's fine. That's the point: "this is what people mean when they say they tried AI and it was OK but not worth it. They're right — that's the ceiling of a cold request."
• 0:29 — Level 3 payoff. Her file on the left, the new email on the right. Point at the "I do NOT use" list — telling it what you don't sound like is the part nobody expects. Let the Otter Question get its laugh before you explain it.
• 0:31 — Level 4 setup. The confession: last year this would have been a PowerPoint and a Mentimeter subscription, and building a website would never have crossed your mind. Draw the line: automating what you already do, versus reconsidering what's now possible.
• 0:32 — Level 4 payoff. Leave the deck for ninety seconds. Site first (two pages, not ten), then /admin — run-of-show, poll control, the results dashboard from the survey they filled in, nine workshop run-of-shows. Then press S so they see the speaker view: the slide they've been watching, plus the notes you've been reading all session. End there, then come straight back. The admin layer is the impressive part; a nice website is just a nice website.
• 0:34 — Level 5 setup. Their Monday, not a teacher's: you find out Thursday what you needed Monday. The hinge: everything so far, you had to ask for.
• 0:36 — Level 5 payoff. Read two items from the brief, land "on the loop, not in it," translate to attendance flags and enrollment, move.

If someone asks to see it live: "Happy to show you after — and the full version of this session does it live throughout." Don't open the laptop mid-session; you will not get those minutes back.

• Madagascar as a story, then the five shapes and the defense line.
• Call back to Beat 4. You told them the model gets nudged toward what people rated well; this is what that produces when the nudging goes wrong. In this version Block 6 is carrying the failure-modes slide that Block 2 gave up, so don't rush it.
• Make the prompt-injection point explicit for this room: students can do this to their teachers, on purpose.

• Cards are already on the seats. Three minutes of quiet writing — task, AI move, partner.
• Do not cut this and do not narrate over it. It is the only part of the session that changes what happens on Monday.
• No spoken report-out. Ask them to name their partner to that person directly, then move to the close.

• Where it lives, say the password out loud, then the year-ahead slide.
• For this room, the year-ahead slide is the real ask. The Monthly Workshops need a decision and owners, and these are the people who make that call. Say it plainly, then stop.
• Skip the one-word takeaway poll if you're at time.