A diagnostic for school leaders / 01
Where does your school actually stand on AI?
The School AI Readiness Scorecard is a candid consultation tool for senior school leaders to diagnose their starting point. Twenty one questions. Six dimensions. One clear picture of what is working, what is exposed and what your school should do next.
About seven minutes.
Your answers stay private.
A useful first move, not an audit. The scorecard reflects the view of the person completing it. Its value is in revealing the questions your school should examine next.
Built by Dan Fitzpatrick, an international speaker, strategist, trainer and mentor who helps schools integrate AI, manage change and build meaningful technology innovation.
The premise
A score is only useful when it starts a better conversation.
Most schools have discussed AI. Some have written guidance. Far fewer have agreed what they are trying to achieve, who owns it and what happens next. This scorecard is a structured pause: an honest view of where the school is today, before the next plan is written.
Six lenses / 02
Look past the keenest teacher.
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Direction
Is there a shared reason for using AI, or only a growing collection of conversations and documents?
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Leadership
Does someone have the confidence, time and remit to turn interest into a school-wide direction?
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People
How far does capability reach beyond the most curious colleagues and early adopters?
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Practice
Where is AI already improving teaching, learning and the work that sits around the classroom?
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Safeguards
Can your school make careful decisions about tools, data, age requirements and pupil use?
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Evidence
What has genuinely changed, and what evidence would tell you that the next move is working?
What comes back / 03
More than a number.
Your result explains the shape of your school's current position, so you can decide what deserves attention first.
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A profile across six dimensions, rather than a single headline number.
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Your strongest foundation and the immediate constraint holding progress back.
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A plain-English explanation of what your answers suggest.
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A practical thirty day plan to take into a leadership conversation.
A shared starting point / 04
Designed for the leadership conversation that follows.
Complete it as one person's view, then use the result to compare perspectives. Bring the strongest foundation, the immediate constraint and the next thirty days into the room. The point is not to prove that your school is ready. It is to make the next decision clearer.
Begin with your view“Getting Dan into your school to speak for one hour will transform your teachers' way of thinking. It will be the best PD you do all year.”
“Dan's keynote woke us up to the urgency of embracing AI in education and challenged us to grab the opportunity with both hands.”
Your next move / 05
Find the constraint that matters most.
Start with a candid snapshot of your school as it is today. Then take a more useful question into your next leadership meeting.
This scorecard is a useful snapshot, not a legal, safeguarding or compliance audit. It reflects the view of the person completing it and is intended to reveal the questions your school should examine next.