The AI Resilience Guide for Schools

In June, the most capable AI model available to the public was switched off worldwide three days after it launched. No notice, no appeal. Schools had not adopted it yet, but plenty of individual teachers had already built it into their planning, their marking, and their support for students. Overnight, they were left without it.That is the problem my new free resource is built to solve.Click here to get the guide instantlyThe AI Resilience Guide for Schools is a short, practical working document for school leaders. It is not an argument for slowing down on AI. The benefits are real. It is an argument for adopting AI in a way that leaves your teaching standing when a tool changes, gets restricted, or disappears for reasons far outside your control. A regulator pulled that model offline, but the more common triggers are quieter: a price rise, a change of terms, a feature withdrawn, a company that closes.One principle runs through the whole guide: never let a single AI tool become load-bearing. If you have outsourced the doing, losing a tool is an inconvenience. If you have outsourced the thinking, it is a crisis. Resilience is not something you buy from a vendor. It is something you build in your own people.What is insideSeven steps, each with a template you can complete in a single staff meeting:Discover what staff are actually using.Map which tools are load-bearing.Test what would happen if each one vanished.Build fallbacks before you need them.Protect the capability of your people.Get the contract questions right.Govern it so it lasts.It ends with a four-week plan that takes you from no picture at all to a school that knows its exposure and has a plan for it.How to use itYou can use the guide in two ways. Print it and work through the templates once with your team to map where you are exposed, agree the actions that follow, and then review the picture at the start of each term. Or, if you would rather talk it through, there is a conversational Google Gem...