A 3-Day In-Person Workshop · High School Teachers

You used AI to save time.
Now use it to build
deeper learning.

Build the AI tool that turns finished lessons into ones your students actually remember.
In 3 days. Bring teaching artifacts you know can be better.

Reserve Your Seat — $100
Aug 4-6, 2026 · John Carroll University · 10am to 2pm · 25 seats · 3 CEUs
The Problem

Your AI is a yes-man.

Type "review my lesson plan" into any AI tool you have. You'll get a paragraph of polite feedback. Great structure. Consider more engagement. Maybe add a hook. None of it is anything you can use on Monday.

That's because you're asking AI to evaluate. You should be asking it to convene a board of education's biggest minds across pedagogy, learning science, behavioral science, and related disciplines, and let them argue about your work in their own voices. One advisor pushes you on whether students are actually building cognitive structures. Another asks whether they're learning specific knowledge worth retaining. A third asks whose voice your lesson centers and whose it erases. A fourth demands the effect size on your favorite tactic. They will not agree. The fight is the entire point.

"A panel that fights about your lesson plan is more useful than an AI that compliments it."

Dr. Doan Winkel Director of the Entrepreneurship Program, John Carroll University
What You Build

The Teaching Board.

A custom AI tool that runs in whatever app your school has. Built around 19 curated education thinkers. Then shaped to your classroom by you, with voices that back your instincts and voices that push back hard.

19

Your custom board

You meet the 19 thinkers I've curated across pedagogy, learning science, behavioral science, and related disciplines. Then I walk you through building a board for your context. Voices that support your views. Voices that challenge them. Each one in their actual voice.

7

Opposing camps

Theorists. Practitioners. Behavioral scientists. System critics. Mastery thinkers. Liberation pedagogues. Naysayers. Each camp checks the others. The fight is the entire point.

3

Artifact variants

One board lens for lesson plans. One for rubrics. One for assignments. Same 19 advisors. Three different sets of questions. Each tuned to surface a different kind of failure.

The 3 Days

Three days. Four hours each. No fluff.

Day 1

Meet the Board, Build It, Run It

  • Watch generic AI feedback fail, then watch the 19-advisor board produce 19 specific critiques.
  • Meet all 19 advisors and the 7 opposing camps that check each other.
  • Build the board into your AI tool as a custom agent or saved prompt template. Run Round 1 (Tear It Apart) on a shared sample lesson plan.
You walk out with: A working Teaching Board running in your AI tool of choice.
Day 3

Variants, Customization, 30-Day Plan

  • Build the rubric variant and the assignment variant. Three working boards.
  • Learn how (and when) to swap advisors for ones that fit your subject better.
  • Build a 30-day implementation plan. Lock in an accountability partner.
You walk out with: Three boards, a 30-day plan, and a partner who's checking in twice.
About the Pace

This won't feel like drinking from a firehose.

Most AI workshops bury you in features, tools, and tabs you'll never reopen. You leave the room exhausted and a week later you can't reproduce what you learned. This one isn't.

You don't need to keep up. You need to show up and bring one lesson you know can be better. We do the rest at a pace you can carry past Friday.

By Friday Afternoon

You leave with three things in your hand.

01

Three working boards.

Custom agent or saved prompt, running in your AI tool. One board for lesson plans, one for rubrics, one for assignments. All 19 advisors in each.

02

A revised lesson plan and a board report.

Multi-round fight protocol completed on a real lesson you're teaching this week. Synthesis report with non-negotiables, contested decisions, and the uncomfortable question the board wants you to answer.

03

A 30-day implementation plan.

Calendar events created. Accountability partner from the room. Two scheduled check-ins. The week becomes a habit, or it doesn't. The plan decides which.

Whatever Tool You Have

We work with the AI your school already gave you.

ChatGPT Plus / Team / Enterprise Gemini Pro / Ultra Microsoft 365 Copilot Claude Pro

We build for the tool you have, not the tool we wish you had. Custom GPTs, Gemini Gems, Copilot Agents, or a saved-prompt template that works in any AI tool on any device. You leave with a working board on the platform you actually use.

Required: a paid account on whatever AI tool you use. Free tiers don't have the agent or context features the board needs. ChatGPT Plus, Gemini Pro, Microsoft 365 Copilot, or Claude Pro will all work. Bring the one your school approves.

Who This Is For

If you teach high school, this is for you.

Don't blow up your whole curriculum. Bring one lesson. We rebuild it together.

The Details

Logistics. The whole thing.

Dates
August 4, 5, 6, 2026 (Tue, Wed, Thu)
Times
10am to 2pm (lunch included)
Location
John Carroll University, University Heights, OH
Investment
$100 total
Capacity
25 seats. Small on purpose.
CEUs
3 credits. Certificate provided.
Included
Lunch all 3 days. All workshop materials. Persona worksheets. Prompt templates. Per-tool setup guides. 30-day planning kit.
Bring
A laptop. A paid AI account already logged in (ChatGPT Plus, Gemini Pro, M365 Copilot, or Claude Pro). One real lesson plan, one rubric, and one assignment.
Doan Winkel
Built and Led By

Doan Winkel

Director, Entrepreneurship Program · John Carroll University

Author of How to Teach With AI. Shares content on Substack and LinkedIn that 20,000+ educators read. Trains thousands of teachers a year on the AI workflows their students are already using behind their backs.

This workshop is the one I'd want to take if I were teaching high school today.

Questions

The ones we get most.

I've barely used AI. Will I be lost?

No. We start at the basics and move fast. By Day 1 lunch you'll know more about practical AI workflows than 90% of the teachers in your building.

My school doesn't allow ChatGPT. Can I still come?

Yes. We build for any AI tool your school approves. ChatGPT Plus, Gemini Pro, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and Claude Pro all work. Day 1 has a track for tools that support custom agents (Custom GPTs, Gemini Gems, Copilot Agents) and a track for tools where you'll use a saved-prompt template instead. Both end with a one-click board. You do need a paid tier on your tool of choice.

I'm not a tech person. Is this technical?

No coding. No settings. No IT setup. You'll paste prompt blocks into your AI tool, then paste your lesson plans into the board. If you can copy and paste, you can run the board.

What if I don't recognize most of these education thinkers?

You will by Day 1 lunch. We hand you a one-page reference to all 19 advisors with what each one believes, the questions they ask, and the blind spot every other advisor uses against them. By Day 3 you'll know who you trust most and who you fight with hardest. Both matter.

Can I swap out advisors I don't like?

Yes, but not on Day 4. We give you a special handout for swapping advisors with rules so you don't accidentally tilt your board. Most teachers shouldn't swap anyone for the first 30 days. The advisor you'd cut on Day 4 is often the one whose feedback you most need on Day 30.

Are 3 CEUs enough for my district?

Check with your district's PD office. The workshop runs 12 contact hours, which translates to 3 CEUs in most Ohio districts. We provide a certificate of completion the same day.

What happens if I have to cancel?

Full refund up to 7 days before the workshop. Within 7 days, your seat is transferable to another teacher. Once Day 1 starts, no refunds. The seat is yours, used or not.

Will this work for my subject?

Yes. The board adapts to any high school discipline. The personas you cast are grounded in YOUR students, so the board catches subject-specific failure modes that a generic workshop never could.

25 seats. That's the whole room.

When this workshop fills, the next one is months away. The students you're teaching this fall don't have months.

Reserve Your Seat — $100

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You can keep using AI to shave five minutes off a worksheet. Or you can use it to convene 19 of education's biggest minds and rebuild what you teach into something your students actually remember. The students you teach in September deserve the version that survived the fight.