In this episode of Kinwise: AI Insights for Education Leaders, host Lydia Kumar sits down with Sandra Jin, Senior Director of Innovation and AI Strategy at Leading Educators. Sandra has spent nearly a decade designing professional learning grounded in three tenets: agency, advocacy, and belonging. Those values show up in her work from national initiatives with rural school districts to career day at her kids' elementary school. This conversation is about what it actually looks like to bring AI into schools in a way that honors what educators and students need, and the question Sandra keeps coming back to: who are you becoming through how you use AI?

Cary Wright, a 30-year veteran educator and co-founder of T.E.A.C.H., joins us to share how he’s helping teachers go from overwhelmed to empowered through practical, responsible AI use.

In this episode, we slow down the AI conversation with John Sharon, Assistant Head for Teaching and Learning at Carolina Friends School. With over 34 years in education, John has seen fads come and go and knows the importance of discernment.

Montana teacher Connor Mulvaney shares how AI literacy lessons and the aiEDU Trailblazers Fellowship ($875 stipend) help rural educators teach with large-language models.

Digital marketer & photographer John Kornegay reveals how AI tackles the first 80 % of the job, so human insight perfects the last mile.

Attorney Mariah Street shares how she uses AI like ChatGPT in her estate planning practice to boost efficiency while navigating critical ethical guidelines.