You may know my work through emotional intelligence. This is the next step: building a clear North Star for AI so your people have the shared language, trust, and practical workflows to use it well.
For independent schools, leadership teams, and education-adjacent organizations navigating AI with students, parents, and staff.
The PATH from EI to AI™
Parents, students, and staff are already living in digital spaces where screenshots, group chats, and AI tools can move faster than shared norms.
Your AI policy exists — or it’s in draft. But faculty and staff still need practical guidance for what belongs in AI, what does not, and who reviews the output.
People are experimenting privately. What is missing is shared language, reusable workflows, and enough confidence to use AI without losing the trust your community depends on.
A shared vision for how your community will use AI with purpose, trust, and practical skill — in ways that improve real work and help students grow.
Once the North Star is visible, the work becomes practical: shared language, better workflows, and a path people can actually follow.
AI use that lives in private experiments and one-off prompts.
ToA repeatable workflow with a strong finished example your team can reuse, revise, and teach.
AI training that feels interesting for an hour, then disappears into the week.
ToA 30-day lab where leaders, teachers, and staff build on real work and leave with something usable.
“How do we move forward with AI — without losing what makes us us?”
ToA customized readiness path: guardrails, adoption rhythm, platform decisions, and next builds.
Most schools start with a 30-minute AI Readiness Conversation. From there, we decide whether you need a lab, a sprint, or a larger readiness path.
A low-lift 30-day lab with asynchronous learning sessions, role-based tabs, and weekly live touchpoint opportunities. Participants build one finished model of a real workflow: the prompt, context, output, and review points clear enough to reuse. By the end, AI feels less like a novelty and more like a practical partner for planning, communication, decision-making, and reflection.
Individual seats begin at $497. Custom leadership-team labs, live application support, and implementation planning are scoped separately.
Ask About the Workflow Lab →A focused sprint where participants turn one finished workflow example into a working AI agent, assistant, or repeatable system. Same sprint structure every time: pick the use case, build the first version, test it, tighten it, and document how it should be used.
Team option: $3,500 for up to 6 participants.
Talk Through an Agent Sprint →A customized engagement for a leadership team, department, or full-community rollout. We map where you are now, identify the workflows and trust risks that matter most, and build a practical readiness path.
Minimum 90-day structure; scope, rhythm, and platform access are customized to the engagement.
Map a Readiness Engagement →Customized monthly advisory after shared context is in place. Each month includes at least two strategy calls, async review of emerging AI questions, and a short written next-step note so decisions stay aligned with trust, workflow, and your North Star.
Best after we have already built shared context together; builds, trainings, and rollout support are scoped separately.
Discuss Advisory →Pause. Align. Trust. Hone.
I’ve been in schools for the past 25 years in classrooms, leadership, and writing curriculum. I’ve taught high school and elementary, led a school in Panamá, came home to Annapolis to run a preschool, and founded The Drizzle Effect®, a learning initiative rooted in building emotional intelligence from a young age. I know what school teams actually do every day, and where they get stuck.
Now I help independent school leaders and education-adjacent teams move from AI anxiety to practical readiness. The same emotional-intelligence work that shaped The Drizzle Effect® shapes how I help communities adopt AI — shared trust first, real workflows second, customized readiness third. The work can begin with one person in a 30-day lab, one team in a 5-day sprint, or a larger engagement that helps the whole community build shared norms, guardrails, and momentum.
This class completely opened up my eyes from how I viewed AI to how I use AI. Before, my only experience was using it to help write emails. Now I know how much more capable AI is and how to use it daily as a partner.
Mary made AI feel accessible and immediately applicable. By the end, I was confidently designing AI-driven workflows I now use daily as Executive Director of a K–12 charter school. What sets her apart is her ability to connect emerging technology to leadership, strategy, and impact.
This course significantly deepened my understanding of how AI can function not only as a productivity tool, but as a thoughtful advisor when used with clear structure and intention — supporting leadership decision-making, planning, and reflection.
If you need a practical foundation, start with the EI to AI Workflow Lab. If you already have a strong workflow example, start with the 5-Day Agent Sprint. If the real question is direction, adult norms, platform access, and adoption, start with an AI Readiness Engagement.
All three. Everyone gets the same core method, then chooses the role tab that fits their work: leadership, teaching, staff/admin, or trust and community. The program stays simple, but the examples match the person doing the work.
The Workflow Lab helps participants build the process and finished workflow example. The Agent Sprint turns one of those examples into a working AI agent, assistant, or repeatable system. The lab is the foundation; the sprint is the build.
No. The Workflow Lab and 5-Day Agent Sprint can begin without a paid platform layer. Platform access is usually a better fit inside a customized AI Readiness Engagement, when there is enough structure to help people use it well.
No. A single leader, department, teacher team, admin team, or whole community can begin. The work scales from one workflow to a broader readiness plan.
It depends on the engagement, but the work usually includes a readiness map, prioritized workflows, adult-use guardrails, communication norms, tool and platform decisions, a practical implementation rhythm, and next builds your people can actually sustain.
Bring the question already on your mind. We’ll talk through where you are, what you’re trying to build, and which path makes the most sense.
Don’t see a time that works? Email mary@maryostrowski.com.