For High Schools
The read your students need before AI writes the next four years for them.
A schoolwide read, or an English, AP Seminar, or advisory unit, for students who will spend high school and college with AI inside every assignment. The book gives your teachers and your parents a shared, level headed way to talk about thinking, effort, and honest work, without turning it into a fight about technology.
Written for
- Principals and assistant principals
- Curriculum and instruction directors
- English and ELA department chairs
- AP Seminar and AP Capstone coordinators
- Library and media specialists
- College and career readiness leads
Why it belongs in your school
Every student
No honors track required
The book opens with a firefighter watching diagnostic thinking disappear from emergency training. It needs no academic background and lands with every student, not only the AP roster.
The real worry
The conversation you are already having
Effort, shortcuts, and academic honesty in an AI world. The book gives faculty and families one calm framework instead of a dozen separate arguments.
Short
Students will actually read it
Fourteen chapters, a weekend read, discussable in a single class or advisory period. Not every assigned book gets opened. This one does.
Classroom fit
Maps onto what you already teach
Slots into ELA units, AP Seminar and Capstone, advisory, senior seminar, and a schoolwide summer read. A free teacher guide and writing prompts come with it.
Evidence
Grounded in research on students
The argument rests on emerging learning science about how AI affects the way students acquire skills, not on opinion. The full evidence is below.
Access
The author comes to you
In person across New England, virtual nationally. Assemblies, classroom visits, and student Q and A, plus faculty and parent sessions.
What your school receives
Teacher discussion guide
Chapter by chapter questions, tiered for introductory and advanced groups, built for ELA, advisory, and seminar settings.
Writing prompts
Essay prompts designed to produce genuine student thinking, not an AI generated answer. Ready for composition and seminar assignments.
School assembly or keynote
A 45 to 60 minute talk for students on the book's argument, the EMT analogy, and the five minute rule, with Q and A.
Virtual author visit
A live online session with students for schools outside New England, with moderated discussion and audience questions.
Parent night talking points
A short brief that helps you frame the read for families and your board, so the message lands as support for thinking, not as a ban on tools.
Companion course access
Available on Gumroad: 14 modules, one for each chapter of the book, plus a Capstone and a Master Prompt, for students who want structured practice with the frameworks.
For Colleges & Universities
The book your incoming class needs to read.
A common reading candidate for the next cycle, accessible to every major and urgent for every student entering an AI saturated academic and professional world. It gives faculty, staff, and students one shared framework for the AI policy conversations already underway on your campus.
Written for
- Common reading program committees
- First Year Experience directors
- Deans of students
- First year writing and composition programs
- Orientation and residence life leads
- Honors and general education faculty
Committee ready on every criterion
Accessibility
Accessible to every major
The firefighter opening requires no academic background and resonates across business, engineering, nursing, and the humanities in equal measure.
Relevance
Urgent for this exact moment
Every university is writing AI policy right now. The book gives your community a shared intellectual framework for those conversations before they begin.
Length
Short enough to be read
Fourteen chapters, completed over a weekend and discussed productively in a single session. Incoming students will finish it.
Programming
Rich enough to build on
Chapters map onto seminars, residence hall programs, orientation sessions, and first year writing. A faculty guide and writing prompts are included at no cost.
Evidence
Independently supported thesis
A public health researcher, an organizational study, and a randomized study of students arrive at the same conclusion by three routes. The evidence is below.
Access
Author available for campus
In person keynotes at regional institutions and virtual presentations nationally, including Q and A, faculty discussions, and orientation programming.
What adopting institutions receive
Faculty discussion guide
Chapter by chapter questions for seminars, first year experience courses, and residence hall programming, tiered for introductory and advanced discussion.
First year writing prompts
Six essay prompts aligned to the book's core arguments, suitable for composition courses, honors seminars, and capstone assignments.
Review copy
A complimentary copy for your committee, in PDF for immediate review or paperback by request, sent within 48 hours.
Keynote presentation
A 60 to 90 minute presentation on the central argument, the EMT diagnostic analogy, and the five minute rule, with dedicated Q and A.
Virtual author visit
A live online session for incoming students, with moderated discussion and audience Q and A, built to complement orientation.
Companion course access
Available on Gumroad: 14 modules, one for each chapter of the book, plus a Capstone and a Master Prompt, run alongside the book for structured practice.