E10-Will Grube, Gruvy Education, "AI, AI Captain"


 November 6, 2025

Episode 10 -- Podcast with Will Grube, Gruvy Education

We had an excellent afternoon podcast yesterday talking with Will Grube about Artificial Intelligence tools in schools. Will has turned himself into one of our country's leading experts on how to change practices in schools to better utilize AI tools. If you weren't able to be there, I'd invite you to review the podcast. If you aren't sharing these discussions with fellow educators, it is a great opportunity for you to get cheap PD, or I should say, free PD, on topics of relevance for colleagues and teachers. 

Episode 10 Podcast

I took this recent email from Will on how you can save time in your HR Department using AI tools that can save you hours depending on your implementation. 

12 practical ways to use AI in Operation/HR. AI Prompt Vault for School Operations & HR. 

In it, you will find ready-made AI prompts that speed up HR and operational tasks. These are 3 of the 12 prompts in the resource:
1) Draft a Professional Improvement Plan From Notes
2) Create a Grant or Funding Proposal Draft
3) Summarize and Compare Job Applications 

AI in Education

AI dominates the newswires recently in all sectors. I am not sure how you omit the discussion and usages of AI in your high schools. Yet, very few schools have curriculum and resources dedicated to concepts of AI built into their future curriculum. There are concurrent discussions about the ethics of increasing usage of, the electrical energy and water supply to support, as well as the economic ramifications of AI labor replacing human labor, not to mention the impact on education. 

The cool thing about a concept like AI is that it can be taught as part of something already required, as well as allowing certification from multiple disciplines. AI could be taught as a disciplinary or multi-disciplinary subject. Like I have advocated for in many examples, consider who is most capable of providing the most engaging coursework, and start there. 

How is this related to NewTech? You can always go back to the first prospectus you read from me. In this document, I share the philosophical background of NewTech, as well as the central tenets behind this idea of personalized, student-centered learning. The idea of advancing a curricular concept like AI is littered throughout the document, from Mission and Vision, to Core Learning Principles, and finally, the Conditions for Change. When you have a topic that is contemporary and readily impactful for the immediate future, you need to act as soon as possible on those. Personally, concepts like AI, along with Automation, Ethics, Machine Learning, Cryptocurrency and Analytics are not just concepts for wonky magazines like Popular Mechanics any longer. 

These are macro-subject type of ideas that transcend the disciplines and provide the impetus for great engagement for students. The idea of these metacognitive experiential courses are certainly a possibility of counting as one of your means to "futurize" the curriculum at your high school.  Just this morning, I read this article, "Walmart states that "every job is going to change". Every aspect of our society is changing from within. We always struggle with considering how these types of massively "disruptive innovations" will change large institutions. Considering those possibilities can make your head hurt. Yet, embracing these concepts of cognitive dissonance are the conditions for growth, despite the pain in doing so. 


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