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INSTITUTION LEADER 12 Hours

Audience
School Leaders
Certification
Digital Certificate
Course Enrollment
Institution
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Available when assigned by an institution.

  • Digital Certificate
  • 11 Detailed Modules
  • ~12 hours of learning

Aap kya seekhenge

Explain AI capabilities and limitations and distinguish useful from high-risk school applications.
Develop a school-level AI vision aligned with educational purpose and mission.
Assess institutional readiness and establish governance, ownership and decision rights.
Design a role-specific AI capacity-building programme and lead change responsibly.
Draft an acceptable-use and responsible-AI policy and classify use cases by risk.
Manage privacy, security, bias, safety and child-rights risks in AI-enabled workflows.
Evaluate AI vendors and budget for the total cost of ownership.
Establish fair, authentic assessment and academic-integrity practices in an AI-enabled environment.
Monitor AI adoption without surveillance and respond to incidents with documented escalation.
Communicate AI policies to families and ensure equity, inclusion and linguistic diversity.
Design a measurable, phased and financially realistic implementation roadmap and lead an institutional capstone.

What this course delivers

From using AI tools to governing institutional AI adoption

This leadership programme prepares principals, coordinators, HoDs and trustees across vision, readiness and governance, teacher capacity, policy, privacy and child safety, procurement, integrity, monitoring, communication and a phased roadmap — governing AI at institutional level, not just using it.

Govern, don't just use

Set an institutional AI vision, establish governance, ownership and decision rights (RACI), and require a leadership decision in every module — not passive reading.

Safe & responsible

Protect student data and child safety, classify high-risk uses out, keep humans accountable for decisions about children, and never upload confidential data to public AI tools.

Evidence-led & feasible

Adopt problem-first, evaluate vendors on data ownership and exit, budget for the true total cost, and monitor value without surveillance — no hype, no 'AI theatre'.

Institution-ready portfolio

Every module builds an institutional artifact — vision, policy, registers, plans and roadmaps — that assembles into a governing-body-ready AI leadership portfolio.

What you'll build

Every module builds an institutional artifact, and you graduate with a governing-body-ready Institutional AI Leadership Portfolio — these sixteen sections — scored on a ten-criterion, hundred-point analytic rubric.

1.Current state and AI readiness assessment
2.Institutional AI vision statement
3.Stakeholder governance map and committee charter
4.Teacher-capacity development plan
5.Acceptable-use and responsible-AI policy
6.AI use-case register and risk register
7.Data privacy, child safety and incident-response plan
8.Infrastructure, access and vendor-evaluation plan
9.Academic-integrity and authentic-assessment protocol
10.Responsible monitoring dashboard and evaluation plan
11.Parent and community communication pack
12.Ninety-day implementation plan
13.Twelve-month institutional AI roadmap
14.Budget and financial-feasibility summary
15.Governing-body capstone presentation and decisions requested
16.Leadership reflection and responsible-use declaration
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Course Syllabus

11 Modules 32 Lessons ~12h

Start here: understand how the course, assessments, institutional portfolio and certificate work; then accept the responsible-use commitments — human accountability, data privacy, no confidential uploads, evidence over hype, and not treating the course as legal advice. Take the entry diagnostic to find where to focus.

Learning Outcomes

  • Describe the course structure, assessments, institutional portfolio and certificate requirements.
  • Accept the responsible-use commitments: accountability, privacy, no confidential uploads, evidence over hype.
  • Use the entry diagnostic to identify where to focus, without punitive evaluation.

Lessons

01
Welcome and Course Navigation
ACTIVITYFREE PREVIEW 15 min

Objective: Describe how the orientation, ten modules, assessments and capstone build an institutional AI leadership portfolio, and how to use the course's tools and access options.

02
Responsible Use and the Entry Diagnostic
ACTIVITY 15 min

Objective: Accept the responsible-use commitments and complete the entry diagnostic to generate a private focus profile, without punitive evaluation.

Module Assessment

Entry diagnostic (ungraded, 20 questions) + accepted responsible-use declaration · 0 Questions

Visual Concepts

Timeline Visual

Course roadmap: orientation to capstone

Flowchart

Institutional portfolio architecture

Comparison Chart

Learner access matrix

Understand AI accurately before selecting tools, adopt from educational value rather than tool hype, and define a clear institutional AI vision aligned to the school's mission and endorsed by leadership.

Learning Outcomes

  • Explain AI's capabilities and limitations, distinguishing assistance from autonomous decision-making.
  • Adopt AI from educational value and problem-first thinking rather than tool hype, avoiding 'AI theatre'.
  • Define an institutional AI vision aligned to mission, equity, safety, transparency and accountability.

Lessons

01
AI in Education — Capabilities, Limitations and Misconceptions
CONCEPT 20 min

Objective: Distinguish predictive from generative AI, identify limitations (hallucination, bias, automation bias), and separate assistance from autonomous decision-making.

02
From Tool Adoption to Educational Value
CONCEPT 20 min

Objective: Adopt AI from a problem-first, value-driven stance, identify low-risk quick wins, and avoid tool-first adoption and 'AI theatre'.

03
Building an Institutional AI Vision
ACTIVITY 20 min

Objective: Draft an institutional AI vision aligned to the school's mission and grounded in educational purpose, human agency, equity, safety, transparency and accountability.

Module Assessment

One-page Institutional AI Vision Canvas (mission-aligned, leadership-endorsed) · 8 Questions

Visual Concepts

Comparison Chart

AI capability-versus-risk matrix

Flowchart

Tool-first versus purpose-first decision flow

Flowchart

Institutional AI vision pyramid

Timeline Visual

AI adoption maturity ladder

Resources

Responsible-use commitments for AI leadership

Accountability, privacy, no confidential uploads, evidence over hype, and not legal advice.

Included
AI capability-versus-risk matrix

Judge proposed AI uses by educational value against risk before adopting.

Included
Institutional AI Vision Canvas

A one-page template grounded in purpose, agency, equity, safety and measurable value.

Included
Purpose-first adoption decision guide

Start from a real problem and avoid tool-first 'AI theatre'.

Included

Assess institutional readiness across leadership, policy, people, data and infrastructure; map stakeholders and decision rights with a RACI model; and establish an AI governance structure with clear ownership, approval authority and escalation.

Learning Outcomes

  • Assess institutional AI readiness across leadership, policy, people, curriculum, infrastructure, data governance and monitoring.
  • Map stakeholders and decision rights using a RACI model.
  • Establish an AI governance structure with terms of reference, approval authority and escalation.

Lessons

01
Conducting an Institutional AI Readiness Assessment
CONCEPT 20 min

Objective: Assess institutional readiness across the twelve readiness domains and identify the two or three that most constrain safe AI adoption.

02
Stakeholders, Roles and Decision Rights
CONCEPT 20 min

Objective: Map the stakeholders in institutional AI decisions and assign responsible, accountable, consulted and informed (RACI) roles to remove ambiguity.

03
Establishing an AI Governance Structure
ACTIVITY 20 min

Objective: Design an AI steering committee with terms of reference, meeting cadence, approval authority, risk and policy ownership, and escalation paths.

Module Assessment

AI Readiness Assessment + Governance Committee Charter + Stakeholder RACI · 8 Questions

Visual Concepts

Flowchart

Institutional AI governance structure

Comparison Chart

RACI matrix for AI decisions

Radar Chart

AI readiness radar chart

Timeline Visual

Governance escalation ladder

Identify role-specific teacher AI competency needs, design effective professional development that transfers to the classroom, and lead change while managing resistance without mandatory, unprepared adoption.

Learning Outcomes

  • Identify role-specific AI competency needs across teaching and support staff.
  • Design professional development that transfers to classroom practice and produces evidence of use.
  • Lead change and manage resistance without mandatory, unprepared adoption.

Lessons

01
Understanding Teacher AI Competency Needs
CONCEPT 20 min

Objective: Identify the AI competencies teachers need and design role-specific pathways for new teachers, experienced teachers, HoDs, coordinators and support staff.

02
Designing Effective Professional Development
CONCEPT 20 min

Objective: Design a professional-development cycle that moves from demonstration through guided practice and coaching to classroom transfer with evidence of use.

03
Leading Change and Managing Resistance
ACTIVITY 20 min

Objective: Diagnose the sources of resistance to AI adoption and design a balanced change response using early adopters, pilots, psychological safety and feedback loops.

Module Assessment

Twelve-month Teacher AI Capacity Development Plan + role-based pathways + change-management response · 8 Questions

Visual Concepts

Timeline Visual

Teacher AI competency progression

Timeline Visual

Change-adoption curve

Cycle Diagram

Capacity-building cycle

Flowchart

Pilot-to-scale funnel

Ground institutional AI in responsible principles, draft an acceptable-use policy covering approved and prohibited uses, and classify use cases by risk with clear approval workflows.

Learning Outcomes

  • Apply responsible AI principles (human agency, fairness, transparency, accountability, proportionality) to school decisions.
  • Draft an acceptable-use policy covering approved uses, prohibited uses, data, integrity and review cycle.
  • Classify AI use cases into low, moderate, high and prohibited risk with approval workflows.

Lessons

01
Responsible AI Principles for Schools
CONCEPT 20 min

Objective: Apply responsible AI principles — human agency, fairness, transparency, accountability, privacy, safety and proportionality — to concrete school decisions.

02
Developing an Acceptable-Use Policy
CONCEPT 20 min

Objective: Draft an institutional acceptable-use policy that specifies approved and prohibited uses, data rules, integrity, disclosure, review and sanctions.

03
Risk Classification and Approval Workflows
ACTIVITY 20 min

Objective: Classify AI use cases into low, moderate, high and prohibited risk, and route each through a proportionate approval workflow.

Module Assessment

Acceptable-Use Policy + AI Use-Case Register + AI Risk Register · 8 Questions

Visual Concepts

Cycle Diagram

Responsible AI principles wheel

Comparison Chart

AI use-case risk matrix

Flowchart

Acceptable-use decision tree

Flowchart

Approval workflow

Map data across AI-enabled workflows, apply consent, transparency and children's rights with data minimisation, and prevent and contain AI cybersecurity incidents — separating legal requirements from institutional choices.

Learning Outcomes

  • Map personal, sensitive and derived data across AI-enabled school workflows and their processors.
  • Apply consent, transparency, purpose limitation and data minimisation with special care for children's data.
  • Prevent, contain and escalate AI cybersecurity incidents such as confidential uploads and shadow AI.

Lessons

01
Mapping Data in AI-Enabled School Workflows
CONCEPT 20 min

Objective: Identify the personal, sensitive, prompt, metadata and derived data flowing through AI-enabled workflows, and the processors that handle it.

02
Consent, Transparency and Rights of Children
CONCEPT 20 min

Objective: Apply purpose limitation, data minimisation, age-appropriate transparency and consent, distinguishing legal requirements from institutional policy choices.

03
Cybersecurity and AI Incident Prevention
ACTIVITY 20 min

Objective: Identify AI-specific cybersecurity risks (confidential uploads, shadow AI, API-key exposure, deepfakes) and design containment, escalation and prevention.

Module Assessment

School AI Data Inventory + Privacy Impact Screening + Incident Reporting Form · 8 Questions

Visual Concepts

Cycle Diagram

School AI data lifecycle

Flowchart

Data-minimisation funnel

Flowchart

Incident-response flowchart

Comparison Chart

Data classification model

Design sustainable, inclusive AI infrastructure; evaluate vendors on educational, privacy, security and exit criteria; and budget for the true total cost of ownership including hidden and exit costs.

Learning Outcomes

  • Design AI infrastructure that is secure, inclusive and resilient across devices, bandwidth and shared environments.
  • Evaluate AI vendors on educational, privacy, security, accessibility, lock-in and exit criteria.
  • Budget for the total cost of ownership, including hidden, usage-based and exit costs.

Lessons

01
Designing Sustainable AI Infrastructure
CONCEPT 20 min

Objective: Design AI infrastructure covering identity, access, devices, bandwidth, logging, continuity and inclusive low-bandwidth and shared-device access.

02
Evaluating AI Vendors and Products
CONCEPT 20 min

Objective: Evaluate an AI vendor against educational, privacy, security, accessibility, data-ownership, lock-in and exit criteria using a weighted scorecard.

03
Budgeting, Total Cost and Procurement Governance
ACTIVITY 20 min

Objective: Estimate the total cost of ownership of an AI tool — including hidden, usage-based, training and exit costs — and apply procurement stage-gates.

Module Assessment

Vendor Due-Diligence Questionnaire + Weighted Vendor Scorecard + Total-Cost-of-Ownership estimate · 8 Questions

Visual Concepts

Flowchart

School AI reference architecture

Comparison Chart

Vendor-evaluation heat map

Comparison Chart

Total-cost-of-ownership iceberg

Timeline Visual

Procurement stage-gate

Guide responsible AI-supported teaching with human review, uphold academic integrity fairly without over-relying on detection scores, and redesign assessment for authentic learning in an AI-enabled environment.

Learning Outcomes

  • Guide responsible AI-supported teaching and learning with human review and evidence checking.
  • Uphold academic integrity fairly, using due process and not relying on AI-detection scores as sole evidence.
  • Redesign assessment for authenticity using performance tasks, process evidence and oral defence.

Lessons

01
Responsible AI-Supported Teaching and Learning
CONCEPT 20 min

Objective: Distinguish appropriate AI support for teaching and learning from inappropriate use, with human review and evidence checking as the constant.

02
Academic Integrity in the Age of Generative AI
CONCEPT 20 min

Objective: Design an academic-integrity approach that distinguishes appropriate from unauthorised assistance and uses due process, not AI-detection scores, as evidence.

03
Redesigning Assessment for Authentic Learning
ACTIVITY 20 min

Objective: Redesign assessment for authenticity using performance tasks, local context, process evidence, oral explanation and in-class checkpoints.

Module Assessment

School AI Academic-Integrity Protocol + Authentic Assessment Redesign + Fair Review Checklist · 8 Questions

Visual Concepts

Timeline Visual

Assessment authenticity continuum

Flowchart

AI-use disclosure model

Comparison Chart

Evidence-triangulation diagram

Flowchart

Academic-integrity response flow

Monitor AI adoption proportionately without surveillance, measure educational and operational value using activity, output and outcome metrics, and run a structured incident-response and continuous-improvement cycle.

Learning Outcomes

  • Monitor AI adoption proportionately using aggregated, anonymised data without disproportionate surveillance.
  • Measure educational and operational value using activity, output, outcome and risk indicators.
  • Run a structured incident-response and continuous-improvement cycle with root-cause analysis.

Lessons

01
Monitoring AI Adoption Without Surveillance
CONCEPT 20 min

Objective: Design proportionate monitoring using aggregated, anonymised data and purpose limitation, avoiding hidden monitoring and behavioural overreach.

02
Measuring Educational and Operational Value
CONCEPT 20 min

Objective: Select balanced indicators across activity, output, outcome and risk, avoiding vanity metrics and distinguishing usage from genuine value.

03
Incident Response and Continuous Improvement
ACTIVITY 20 min

Objective: Run a structured incident-response cycle — intake, triage, containment, investigation, communication, corrective action and root-cause-driven improvement.

Module Assessment

AI Adoption Balanced Scorecard + Incident Severity Matrix + Corrective Action Report · 8 Questions

Visual Concepts

Radar Chart

Balanced AI adoption scorecard

Checklist

Monitoring-without-surveillance principles

Comparison Chart

Incident severity matrix

Cycle Diagram

Continuous-improvement cycle

Communicate AI adoption clearly (including where AI is not used), build trust through student voice and parent participation, and ensure equity, inclusion and linguistic diversity so AI never excludes.

Learning Outcomes

  • Communicate AI adoption clearly to parents and students, including where AI is and is not used.
  • Build trust through consultation, student voice, parent participation and complaint handling.
  • Ensure equity, inclusion and linguistic diversity so AI adoption does not exclude any group.

Lessons

01
Communicating AI Adoption Clearly
CONCEPT 20 min

Objective: Communicate why, where and where not AI is used, the human oversight in place, and how data is handled, addressing common misconceptions.

02
Student Voice, Parent Participation and Trust
CONCEPT 20 min

Objective: Build trust through consultation, student voice, parent participation, accessible feedback channels, objection pathways and fair complaint handling.

03
Equity, Inclusion and Linguistic Diversity
ACTIVITY 20 min

Objective: Assess and mitigate equity impacts of AI adoption across the digital divide, disability, language, socioeconomic and rural contexts, avoiding exclusion through mandatory technology.

Module Assessment

Parent Information Notice + Student-Friendly AI Explanation + Equity Impact Checklist · 8 Questions

Visual Concepts

Comparison Chart

Stakeholder communication map

Cycle Diagram

Trust-building cycle

Flowchart

Communication escalation pathway

Checklist

Equity-impact canvas

Prioritise use cases into a ninety-day plan, build a phased twelve-month institutional AI roadmap with owners and decision gates, and prepare a governing-body-ready capstone presentation of the institutional AI plan.

Learning Outcomes

  • Prioritise AI use cases by impact, risk, readiness, effort and cost into a ninety-day plan with stop criteria.
  • Build a phased twelve-month institutional AI roadmap with milestones, owners, budget and decision gates.
  • Prepare a governing-body-ready capstone presentation with evidence, controls and decisions requested.

Lessons

01
Prioritising Use Cases and Building a Ninety-Day Plan
CONCEPT 20 min

Objective: Prioritise AI use cases by impact, risk, readiness, effort and cost, and build a ninety-day pilot plan with success and stop criteria.

02
Building a Twelve-Month Institutional AI Roadmap
CONCEPT 20 min

Objective: Build a phased twelve-month roadmap (discover, govern, prepare, pilot, evaluate, improve, scale, review) with milestones, owners, budget, risks and decision gates.

03
Capstone — Presenting the Institutional AI Plan
ACTIVITY 20 min

Objective: Prepare a governing-body-ready capstone presentation of the institutional AI plan with current state, strategy, controls, budget, roadmaps and the specific decisions requested.

Module Assessment

Complete Institutional AI Leadership Portfolio + Ninety-Day Plan + Twelve-Month Roadmap + Capstone Presentation · 8 Questions

Visual Concepts

Comparison Chart

Impact-effort-risk prioritisation matrix

Timeline Visual

Ninety-day roadmap

Timeline Visual

Twelve-month phased roadmap

Flowchart

Governance decision gates

Responsible AI

AI can draft, but it does not understand or verify. You remain responsible for the accuracy, fairness, privacy and classroom-appropriateness of anything you use.

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