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Creating AI Agent Safeguards (for now) through Pragmatic Instructional Design to Deliver Assignments and Assessments

As you prepare your syllabus for the upcoming semester, a question I’ve explored before looms large. In a previous post, “The Death of the LMS in Higher Ed,” I argued that its role as a simple repository for assignments is becoming obsolete. With AI agents now ubiquitous, how do we prevent the LMS from becoming a mere drop-box for bot-generated work from an autonomous AI Agent?

The solution isn’t to fully abandon the LMS (for now), but to evolve its purpose and create humanizing instructional barriers in the tasks and assessments we deliver to our students. This post presents a few practical strategies (I am implementing this term in my own graduate-level course) to revitalize our courses by shifting the focus from the final product, which AI can generate in seconds, to the learning process, which it cannot. This is going to my attempt to defend against students utilizing AI Agents. While I know this may not be one-hundred percent effective, I do have a hunch it will mitigate AI Agents to a degree, at least for the time being, this semester.

5 Ways Agentic AI Can Transform Your Teaching Workflow

What if you had a personalized assistant who knew your school’s handbook, understood your instructional philosophy, and could help you design lessons tailored to your students’ needs? This isn’t a glimpse into a far-off future; it’s the reality of what AI agents can offer teachers today.

AI Agents: The Future of School Leadership

📬 Stay in the loop Join educators getting weekly insights on AI, co-teaching, and instructional leadership. Subscribe The deployment of AI Agents has the potential to greatly impact school leadership. These autonomous software systems, capable of perceiving their environment, making decisions, and executing actions independently, will have the opportunity to redefine the role of educationalContinueContinue reading “AI Agents: The Future of School Leadership”

New Release! Crush it from the Start: 25 Tips for Instructional Coaches and Leaders

📬 Stay in the loop Join educators getting weekly insights on AI, co-teaching, and instructional leadership. Subscribe Today marks the release of my new book—a resource designed for instructional coaches, principals, assistant principals, college of education professors, and district office leaders who are committed to transforming teaching and learning in the modern classroom. This bookContinueContinue reading “New Release! Crush it from the Start: 25 Tips for Instructional Coaches and Leaders”

The Power of Rehearsal: The Most Overlooked Step in Instructional Coaching

Instructional coaching is a powerful tool for transforming teaching and learning, but one of its most underutilized strategies within instructional coaching is lesson rehearsal by the teaching being coached—a safe, structured opportunity for teachers to practice new instructional strategies before implementing them in the classroom. Check out how this critical element of instructional coaching can be implemented and be apart of your coaching toolkit and practice.

The Death of the LMS in Higher Ed: How AI Agents May Make the Traditional LMS Learning Obsolete in the Near Future

📬 Stay in the loop Join educators getting weekly insights on AI, co-teaching, and instructional leadership. Subscribe The rise of AI-powered agents like Operator (and many more) will drastically reshape how higher education delivers courses online, making traditional Learning Management Systems (LMS) increasingly irrelevant if safeguards are not created. As students gain access to AIContinueContinue reading “The Death of the LMS in Higher Ed: How AI Agents May Make the Traditional LMS Learning Obsolete in the Near Future”

Navigating Education – The Podcast: Ep 78 – Formative Assessment is One of the Most Impactful Strategies You Can Use In Your Instruction

Formative assessment is one of the most impactful strategies K-20 teachers can use in their instruction. It helps us determine where our students are at and how they are performing in real time. Here are my thoughts about how you can use formative assessment with and without EdTech as well as implementing it at strategic points throughout your lesson to get the most out of it to support your students.

Navigating Education – The Podcast: Ep 77 – The Diffusion of Innovation and Instructional Coaching

📬 Stay in the loop Join educators getting weekly insights on AI, co-teaching, and instructional leadership. Subscribe Everett Rogers’ Diffusion of Innovation theory is a compelling framework for understanding how new ideas and technologies spread through organizational cultures. Essentially, it outlines a process where innovations move through a series of adopter categories—from innovators to laggards—eachContinueContinue reading “Navigating Education – The Podcast: Ep 77 – The Diffusion of Innovation and Instructional Coaching”

How Data, Decision-Making, and AI Can Future-Proof Your Organization

📬 Stay in the loop Join educators getting weekly insights on AI, co-teaching, and instructional leadership. Subscribe In 2019, I wrote my dissertation on data literacy and data-driven decision-making, believing these concepts were critical for leaders in education and beyond. At the time, however, it felt like the conversation was ahead of its time. TheContinueContinue reading “How Data, Decision-Making, and AI Can Future-Proof Your Organization”