For deans and department chairs
Your faculty are one hour behind their students.
The Department Lab is one Teacher Workflows Live session, run privately for your department. Sixty minutes on Zoom, up to 40 faculty, you pick the topic, every prompt and the replay included. $500. One link. Nobody has to approve it.
Book the Lab for $500Card or P-card. Invoice on request, same price.
The faculty meeting about AI has happened twice. Nothing changed.
Your students adopted AI in a semester. Your faculty got a policy memo, a webinar from the vendor, and a committee. Most of them are still using a chatbot the way they used a search box, and a few have decided the whole thing is beneath them.
Meanwhile the assignments are the same ones from 2022, the rubrics grade whatever a chatbot produces at a B, and the complaint in every hallway is the same: students cheating with AI, no time, overwhelmed.
A six-week program fixes that. It also needs a budget line and three signatures. You need something a department can do this month.
One hour. One workflow. Their own courses.
Teacher Workflows Live is the free series where I rebuild one piece of a real course in thirty minutes, in front of a few hundred teachers. The Lab is that session, doubled in length, closed to your department, and run on your faculty's own material instead of mine.
What every participant leaves with
- One real piece of their own course rebuilt during the hour: an assignment, a rubric, a policy, a session plan. They work on their own material the whole time.
- Every prompt used in the session, copy-paste ready, on one PDF they keep.
- The recording, to your department only, within 24 hours.
- A way to tell the difference between a student using AI to think and a student using it to skip thinking, which is the question your faculty are actually asking.
Pick the topic your faculty argue about
Any session from the series, run for your department. Each one is built around a single workflow a teacher can use the next morning.
Cheat Your Own Assignment
A live autopsy of one real assignment, the grade a chatbot earned on it, and the four prompts to run on yours.
The AI Policy Students Actually Follow
A four-bucket AI policy written live, under 150 words, with the prompt to write yours.
Rubrics a Machine and a Student Can Both Read
A rubric tuned and calibration-tested live, with the prompts to tune yours.
Grade One Stack Live
A stack of real submissions graded live, every prompt included, and the changelog habit that keeps you the grader.
The Revision Camera
A change-map of one real pair of drafts, every change sorted into structure, evidence, or polish.
The Exam That Survives a Phone
One real final audited question by question, plus five rewrite patterns for everything that dies in thirty seconds.
The Semester Autopsy
Three evidence-based changes for spring, pulled live from real evals and a real gradebook, with the prompts to run yours.
The Syllabus Teardown
Rewritten syllabus clauses plus the NotebookLM test that finds what students will ask at 11pm.
One Assignment, Thirty Doors
The five-question profile survey deployed, and one assignment personalized under a single unified rubric.
The Practice Partner
A classroom bot built live, student link and all, with the exact steps to launch yours before your next class.
The Lecture Multiplier
One phone recording turned into a study guide, a quiz, a catch-up brief, and a note to next-year-you.
Discussion Board Batch Night
Eight real posts triaged and replied to in one voice, in minutes, with the sensitive-post rule installed.
Group Projects Without Freeriders
A team-trail add-on with the contribution checks built in, ready to bolt onto the project you are about to launch.
Retrieval on Autopilot
A spaced question bank built live from real course notes, with the prompts to load yours before midterms.
Seven Students Having Bad Days
One lesson plan stress-tested through 21 failure checks, and the rebuilt version that passes.
Lesson Plan Resurrection
A stale deck converted live into a 75-minute active session, with the prompts to resurrect your own.
The 20-Minute Case Study
A structured, discipline-specific case built live from a company your students already know.
Grade the Process
An audit-trail wrapper on one real assignment, with the six-rule rubric that scores it in about two minutes.
The Advisory Board
One course artifact argued over by a room of hostile experts, with three ranked changes and a changelog.
Letters and Emails That Sound Like You
A rec-letter engine built live right at letter season, with the setup to train yours, plus the email you send the student who vanished.
How it works
Pay the link
Card or P-card, $500, done in two minutes. Need an invoice and a PO instead? Email me and I send one the same day at the same price.
Reply with three dates
The receipt email asks for three windows that work for your department and the topic you want. I confirm one within a business day and send the Zoom link.
Faculty bring one thing
No prep. Each person opens the session with one real artifact from a course they teach this term. That is the only homework.
Sixty minutes, live
I run the workflow on a real artifact in front of them, they run it on theirs, and we fix what breaks in the room. Fifteen minutes of questions at the end.
The replay and the prompts
Within 24 hours your department gets the recording and the one-page PDF. The people who could not make it get the whole thing.
Who this is for
Buy it if
- You lead a department, a college, or a teaching center and you have discretionary funds.
- Your faculty have asked for something practical and gotten a policy instead.
- You want to know, before you fund anything bigger, whether your people will actually do this work.
Skip it if
- You want a keynote. The Lab is a working session; people type the whole time.
- You want faculty to watch a demo of my course. They work on theirs.
- You want the thing that tells students AI is banned. I will show your faculty why that policy fails and what to write instead.
Who runs it
I am a professor of entrepreneurship at John Carroll University and the Founding Director of the Bill & Sue Donnelly School of Leadership and Social Innovation. I cofounded the Experiential Entrepreneurship Curriculum, used at about 200 colleges, and I write How to Teach With AI, read by more than 20,000 educators. Every session in the series has been run live on a real course, with the failures left in.
Questions deans ask
Which topic should we pick?
The one your faculty complain about in the hallway. If students cheating with AI is the complaint, start with Cheat Your Own Assignment. If grading is, Grade One Stack Live. If you cannot decide, tell me the department and I will recommend one.
We have more than 40 faculty.
Buy two. Forty is the size where everyone still gets to work on their own artifact and ask a question. Above that it turns into a lecture, and you can get a lecture anywhere.
Can it be in person?
The Lab is Zoom only, which is why it costs what it costs. On-site days are a different engagement; email me.
What if our faculty have never touched an AI tool?
Then this is the right first hour. Everything runs in the free tier of a chat tool and every prompt is copy-paste. The skeptics tend to leave with the most.
Is this the AI-Fluent Faculty Program?
No. The Lab is one hour on one workflow. The program is six weeks, licensed to your institution, run by your own certified facilitator. Most departments that license the program ran a Lab first, because it is the cheapest way to find out whether your faculty will show up for this.
After the Lab
Departments that want the whole faculty rebuilt, not one hour of it, license the AI-Fluent Faculty Program: six weeks, run by your own certified facilitator, every participant rebuilding five pieces of their course. The Lab is the first rung. If you book one and license the program within 90 days, the $500 comes off the license.
Your faculty could do this next month.
Pay the link, reply with three dates, done. Or email me first with the department and the complaint, and I will recommend the topic.