FOR HEADS OF SCHOOL AND PRESIDENTS

You're the one who's supposed to have an answer.

AI is on your plate. It comes up in board meetings, in parent conversations, in hallway questions from faculty. And every time it does, the same feeling surfaces: you're the person who's supposed to have a position, and the answer isn't clear yet.

That's an orientation gap. You don't need a tutorial on AI — you need a framework that fits how you actually think and work as a school leader. The Lab Series, the Posture Report, the When AI Enters the Room whitepaper, and writing here are designed for exactly that.


THE FIELD GUIDE

The whole map for the head's chair.

AI now lands on your desk from every direction — the board, a parent email, a faculty question in the hallway. The Head of School Field Guide to AI is the complete map for that seat: what AI genuinely changes about strategy, governance, people leadership, and crisis readiness, and what to do about it, in what order. Fifteen chapters written for the head's altitude, honest about what AI can't do, and re-verified every quarter — because a book about AI is out of date before it ships.

Includes the current edition and the next quarterly edition, free.

THE LAB SERIES

The AI Leadership Lab Series

Five labs built around the strategic work that lands on a head of school's desk — board readiness, faculty culture, parent communications, institutional posture toward AI. Each lab ends with a concrete leadership action and a section of your AI Leadership Brief. A position you can articulate. A plan you can stand behind.

STARTER RESOURCES

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DIAGNOSTIC EXERCISE

AI Leadership Posture Report

A diagnostic that identifies how you naturally interact with AI — and how to lead from there. Three orientations, one report.

Take the diagnostic →

VIDEO

The Leadership Layer

A demonstration of AI applied to the leadership work that actually sits on your desk. The shift from AI as a chat window to a layer you build once and lead from.

View the video →

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Notes from Linda, for heads of school

Occasional updates for heads of school and presidents. New writing, new resources, news from the field. No schedule. No spam.


Linda Haitani has spent two decades at the intersection of K-12 private school operations and the technology transitions that reshape how schools work — first as the founder of Ravenna Solutions, then in roles at NAIS and Clarity. AI is the next transition. The warrant is the same.