Summer Kickoff: A 90-Minute Tour of AI at S2
From "I've heard of ChatGPT" to "here's where AI fits in my work, here's where it doesn't, and here's one specific change I'm going to make next week."
Before & after the session
What you'll use as a participantThe slide deck
Flip back through every slide from the session. Use ←/→ to move and G for the slide grid.
Printable handout
One-page summary of the Five Levels, disclosure, red lines, and the pledge prompt. Print or save as PDF.
Pick-one pledge
Lock in the one change you'll make in the next two weeks, with a partner and a check-in date.
You'll answer two quick questions on your phone as you arrive; no need to do anything before the session. Facilitators: the run-of-show, live poll, lobby screen, results dashboard, and Bayside demo files live in the admin console.
Why this session
About three in ten American teachers now use AI weekly, saving roughly six hours a week on tasks like preparing for class, drafting worksheets, and adapting materials for different learners. At the same time, a Canadian airline was forced by a tribunal to honor a refund policy its chatbot had invented, and a California lawyer was fined $10,000 last year when 21 of the 23 case quotes in his appellate brief turned out to be ChatGPT fabrications.
AI is a powerful, fast-moving tool. It is often confidently wrong. And it is becoming part of the work we do. This session is the practical overview every S2 teacher gets before AI shows up in their classroom and their inbox.
What you'll leave with
A plain-language read on AI
How LLMs actually work, why they make things up, and where they fail.
Where S2 stands
What the staff and student policies say and how they land in your day-to-day.
One specific change
Named task, named AI move, named accountability partner. Two-week check-in.
Run of show
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10:00 — 0:10 · 10 minutes
Welcome and opening poll
Two quick questions answered on your phone as you walk in (how often you use AI, and how comfortable you are with it), projected live. Then one live word cloud: the task you'd most love AI to take off your plate. Short frame on why this session exists. Format preview: live, single screen, audience reacting throughout, laptops closed.
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20:10 — 0:20 · 10 minutes
Under the hood
A plain-language tour of how LLMs actually work. Five fast beats: predict the next word, meaning is a place in coordinate space, the neural net as an assembly line of simple math, how it learned by guessing billions of times and getting nudged toward right, and where and why it fails.
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30:20 — 0:35 · 15 minutes
The S2 AI policy in practice
The policy is set. This block walks through what it says, why we landed where we did, and what it means for daily classroom practice. Disclosure-first posture. Grade-band expectations. Protected assessments. Privacy and data-handling guidance. Discussion welcome on how the policy lands in specific subjects and grade levels.
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40:35 — 1:05 · 30 minutes
Five Levels of AI in Action
The heart of the session. Demos move from the floor to the ceiling, all set at the fictional Bayside Charter School. Each level is more powerful than the last, and the lens that ties them together is who is driving. In the early levels, the human is in the loop. By the last level, the human is on the loop. Closes with a short "how AI fails in 2026" beat: a true story about a hidden instruction in an exam prompt, then the five failure shapes to watch for.
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51:05 — 1:15 · 10 minutes
Pick one and find your partner
Everyone writes down one specific change they will make in their work over the next two weeks, naming the task and the AI move they will use, on a printed pledge card. You find your own partner — someone whose day looks different from yours — share your change, and schedule a 15-minute check-in on your calendars before standing up. Instead of a spoken report-out, the whole room's commitments go up at once as a live word cloud.
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61:15 — 1:30 · 15 minutes
Closing
Where everything lives and how we keep going: the site and its password, the policy and tools list, the prompt library, and when the proposed monthly workshops might start. An honest word on what building all this actually took. Closes with a one-word takeaway from the room. When a teacher leader is recruited, a classroom showcase belongs in this block.
The Five Levels — quick tour
These are the five levels demonstrated in Block 4, all set at the fictional Bayside Charter School. Each card links to a deeper write-up in the Five Levels reference.
Chat
Cleaning up Principal Henderson's panicked lice email, then a second prompt for the Spanish version.
AI works with you
Auditing Bayside's broken Field Day budget live, then a corrected Back-to-School Night deck side by side with the original.
AI knows you
The same prompt run twice — once cold, once with a teacher's one-page context file attached. The difference is the demo.
Build with AI
This site and the live poll you used today were built with AI. The point is the door, not the tool.
Agents
A sample morning brief an agent prepared overnight for a teacher: who to watch, what's coming, a drafted note for review.
Materials
| Item | Format | When delivered |
|---|---|---|
| Arrival survey (2 questions) | Phone-first survey → Google Sheet | As you walk in |
| Live in-class poll (word cloud, choice, scale) | In-house poll, on teachers' phones | In session |
| Run-of-show + facilitator notes | Web (admin-gated) | Admin console |
| Live single-screen environment | Claude Desktop + Cowork | In session |
| Bayside Charter demo assets | Sample files (.xlsx, .pptx, .md, .html) | On this site now |
| Prompt library (25 starters) | Web, tagged by subject | On this site now |
| "Pick one" pledge card | Print + digital | In session |
| The slide deck | Web (flip back through every slide) | On this site, after the session |
Format and logistics
One screen. Live tool, not slides. The built-in live poll (poll-control + poll-present) is open for the opening poll and any live question, in place of Mentimeter. The facilitator drives all the demos. 25 to 30 teachers per session, delivered per building or all-school combined. An optional 15-minute stick-around after the session for anyone who wants to try one of the prompts on their own material before leaving.
Status and next steps
| Working group review | In progress |
| Policy finalization (prerequisite) | Targeting Aug 15 adoption |
| Teacher leader recruited | Open · not required for the Kickoff (facilitator demos solo for now); slot ready when recruited |
| Summer dates locked with principals | Open |
| Bayside demo assets built | Done · on this site |
| Arrival survey | Live · QR on the opening slide |