Now scheduling for end-of-year and back-to-school in-service days. If your school is planning professional development for May–June or August, this workshop fits a single in-service slot: no pre-reading, no software, no follow-up homework required.
Most Schools Either Fear AI or Use It Without a Plan
Most schools are stuck between two bad options: avoid AI out of fear, or adopt it without a plan and watch it create more problems than it solves. Twenty-five years inside classical education showed me a third path: diagnose first, train with integrity, and build tools that actually fit your school instead of buying something that almost does.
The Questions Nobody Asks Before Implementing AI
The Attention Trail
We start where teacher time and energy actually flows: not philosophically, but literally. Where do planning hours go? What consumes the most faculty meeting time? Most schools run on institutional memory disguised as process.
The Friction Points
Don't ask 'what's your biggest challenge' because you'll get aspirational answers. Ask: 'What task makes you want to quit?' 'What do you redo most often?' Pain is specific. If a teacher describes frustration in abstract terms, you haven't dug deep enough.
The Assessment Gap
What decisions about student progress are made on intuition versus real data? Not because intuition is wrong (experienced teachers have excellent intuition), but because it reveals where visibility is missing. 'How do you know when a student is falling behind?' If the answer is 'I just know,' you've found a gap.
The Handoff Disasters
Every time a student's information passes from teacher to teacher, grade level to grade level, or department to department, something gets abbreviated or dropped. Map those transitions. The gaps between systems are where students fall through.
The EdTech Graveyard
What software did your school purchase that nobody actually uses? That's not a technology failure; it's a process failure. The tool didn't fit the real workflow, or it solved a problem the school didn't really have. Understanding the graveyard is how you avoid filling it again.
The Missing Tool
What workarounds do your teachers run because no existing app does exactly what they need? A spreadsheet held together with prayer, a Google Form that almost works, a process nobody has documented. That workaround is a tool waiting to be built, and with Claude Code, building it is now within reach.
What You're Actually Buying
Not another SaaS subscription. Vendors sell those forever.
Not generic AI training. YouTube does that for free.
You're buying:
AI Literacy Training
Hands-on workshops that teach teachers and administrators to use AI tools with integrity: prompting, evaluation, and ethical use grounded in your school's mission.
Diagnostic-First Methodology
We map your school's processes, pain points, and tool graveyard before recommending or building anything. Most EdTech fails because this step gets skipped.
Custom Tool Building
Using Claude Code and modern AI development tools, we help schools build apps that fit their actual workflows instead of buying something that almost fits and costs forever.
Faculty Ownership
Teachers own the tools we build together. We train your staff to maintain, adapt, and extend what we create. No consultant dependency, no recurring license.
WHO'S BEHIND THIS
Tim Moon
Former Dean of Rhetoric · AI Liaison, Wayland Baptist University · Founder, VoiceArc
I spent twenty-five years inside classical education as a teacher, Dean of Rhetoric, and school leader, watching institutions spend heavily on technology that promised transformation and delivered distraction. The EdTech failure rate mirrors every other AI failure rate: organizations reach for tools before they understand their processes.
I now serve as AI Liaison and Adjunct Professor at Wayland Baptist University, teach a Professional Readiness course integrating AI literacy, and founded VoiceArc, an AI-assisted rhetoric analysis tool for writing teachers. I write about the intersection of classical education and artificial intelligence at Silicon and Soul. I founded Critical AI Solutions to help schools navigate AI the way a classical educator should: asking better questions first.
“As an adjunct AI Liaison at Wayland Baptist University, Tim has demonstrated important discernment and skill in teaching students, teachers, and staff to apply AI in effective and ethical ways. His years of experience in education and educational leadership, along with his astute understanding of AI in education, provide a unique and essential perspective for education in the Age of AI.”
PARTNER
Christoph Kwiatkowski
LinkedInFounder, Ahead of the Wave AI · Enterprise AI Seminar Leader
Christoph brings enterprise-scale AI training experience across multiple countries to the partnership. Where Critical AI Solutions focuses primarily on education, Christoph brings the perspective of enterprise organizations that have already navigated large-scale AI adoption. Together, the partnership covers both the depth of school culture and the breadth of institutional change.