Lead the AI transformation of education — with the strategy to prove it
Brown Tech AI Academy's executive certification equips education leaders to design, govern, and defend enterprise AI strategies — from adaptive learning systems to board-ready portfolio defense — with the rigor your institution demands.

My commitment is that every leader who completes this program leaves with a strategy they can defend — not just a credential they can display.— Pauline Brown Smith, EdD

What you'll learn
What you'll be able to do
- Design and defend a board-ready enterprise educational AI strategy covering governance, equity, privacy, and phased implementation
- Build a master portfolio including an AI governance framework, adaptive learning roadmap, risk register, and executive KPI dashboard
- Evaluate and select intelligent tutoring systems and learning analytics platforms against instructional, accessibility, and compliance criteria
- Lead stakeholder engagement across educators, technologists, legal counsel, and boards to align AI adoption with organizational values
- Apply regulatory and accreditation frameworks — including FERPA, IDEA, and emerging AI legislation — to real institutional AI deployments
- Distinguish proven educational practice from emerging AI capabilities to make evidence-based investment and innovation decisions
How it works
A school that adapts to you
This isn't a set of static videos. Every lesson is generated live and tuned to where you actually are.
We learn your level
A quick placement check tailors your starting point so you're never bored or lost.
Lessons adapt as you go
Each lesson is written for your pace and your goal, adjusting as your skills grow.
Your AI coach keeps you moving
Checkpoints, feedback, and gentle nudges turn progress into a real result.
The curriculum
What's inside your school
6 modules · 29 lessons

Foundations of Educational AI Leadership
Establishes the executive mindset, core vocabulary, and evidence framework needed to distinguish proven educational practice from emerging AI capabilities.
- 1.1The Educational AI Landscape for ExecutivesIncluded
- 1.2AI Readiness Assessment for Educational OrganizationsIncluded
- 1.3Key Concepts: Adaptive Learning, Analytics, and Intelligent TutoringIncluded
- 1.4Executive Roles and Responsibilities in Educational AIIncluded
- 1.5Evidence-Based Investment Decisions in Educational AIIncluded
Adaptive Learning, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, and Educational Data
Equips leaders to evaluate, select, and oversee adaptive learning platforms, intelligent tutoring systems, and the data ecosystems that power them.
- 2.1How Adaptive Learning Systems Personalize InstructionIncluded
- 2.2Evaluating and Selecting Intelligent Tutoring SystemsIncluded
- 2.3Learning Analytics: From Data Collection to Decision-MakingIncluded
- 2.4Educational Data Systems Architecture and IntegrationIncluded
- 2.5Building the Educational Intelligence PortfolioIncluded
Educational AI Governance, Ethics, Accessibility, and Regulatory Compliance
Builds executive-level governance structures ensuring fairness, transparency, privacy, accessibility, and full regulatory compliance across all AI deployments.
- 3.1Designing an Educational AI Governance FrameworkIncluded
- 3.2Ethics, Equity, and Fairness in Educational AIIncluded
- 3.3Regulatory Compliance: FERPA, IDEA, and Emerging AI LegislationIncluded
- 3.4Accessibility Standards and Universal Design for AI-Powered LearningIncluded
- 3.5Learner Privacy, Cybersecurity, and Data StewardshipIncluded
Enterprise AI Strategy, Stakeholder Engagement, and Phased Implementation
Guides leaders through designing, communicating, and executing a phased enterprise AI strategy aligned with organizational values and stakeholder expectations.
- 4.1Designing a Phased Enterprise Educational AI StrategyIncluded
- 4.2Stakeholder Mapping and Engagement for AI InitiativesIncluded
- 4.3Educator Professional Learning and Change ManagementIncluded
- 4.4Workforce Development and Organizational Learning TransformationIncluded
- 4.5Performance Measurement: KPIs, Risk Registers, and Continuous ImprovementIncluded
Educational AI Innovation Laboratories and Learning Transformation
Challenges leaders to lead forward-looking AI innovation initiatives, building organizational structures that sustain continuous improvement and long-range transformation.
- 5.1Establishing an Educational AI Innovation LaboratoryIncluded
- 5.2Learning Transformation Roadmapping: Five-, Ten-, and Twenty-Year HorizonsIncluded
- 5.3AI Assurance, Quality Evaluation, and Continuous Improvement StrategyIncluded
- 5.4Applied Innovation Exercise: Designing an Educational AI InitiativeIncluded
Executive Capstone, Master Portfolio Defense, and Certification
Culminates the program by requiring leaders to design, assemble, and defend a board-ready enterprise AI strategy and master portfolio before an executive review panel.
- 6.1Enterprise Educational AI Strategy: Capstone DesignIncluded
- 6.2Assembling the Brown Tech Master Educational AI PortfolioIncluded
- 6.3Board Presentation: Communicating AI Strategy to Governing BodiesIncluded
- 6.4Executive Competency Verification and Portfolio Defense SimulationIncluded
- 6.5Reflective Leadership and the Future of Educational AIIncluded
Who it's for
Is this you?
District Superintendents
Ready to move beyond pilot programs and build a district-wide AI strategy they can defend to their school board with evidence, governance rigor, and an equity framework.
Chief Academic Officers
Responsible for learning outcomes at scale and seeking a structured way to evaluate adaptive learning systems, align AI investments with instructional strategy, and lead faculty through change.
Instructional Technology Directors
Technically fluent but seeking the governance, compliance, and executive communication frameworks needed to elevate their role from implementer to institutional strategist.
University Provosts & Deans
Navigating AI adoption across complex, multi-stakeholder academic environments and need a rigorous framework for governance, accreditation alignment, and responsible innovation.
Workforce Development Executives
Leading organizational learning transformation and looking for an enterprise AI strategy that connects talent development, performance measurement, and institutional KPIs.
Education Policy & Compliance Leaders
Accountable for FERPA, IDEA, and emerging AI regulatory compliance and seeking a practical, portfolio-verified approach to governance, privacy, and equitable AI stewardship.
Questions
Frequently asked
Your teacher
A note from your teacher
Pauline Brown Smith, EdD
You are already leading. The question is whether the frameworks you have been handed are adequate for what is actually in front of you.
I have spent years working with education leaders who are sharp, experienced, and deeply committed to their institutions — and who are being asked to make high-stakes AI decisions with inadequate preparation. Not because they lack intelligence or will, but because the field has not yet built the executive-level infrastructure they deserve. Most AI training available to education leaders is either too shallow to be actionable or too technical to be executable at the governance level. Neither serves you when you are sitting across from your board.
This program was built to close that gap. Everything inside the Brown Tech AI Academy Executive Certification is designed to function at the level of real institutional decision-making. We start where you actually are — with an AI readiness assessment grounded in your organizational context — and we build forward through adaptive learning systems, governance frameworks, regulatory compliance, stakeholder strategy, and phased enterprise implementation. The capstone asks you to do exactly what you will be asked to do in practice: stand before a governing body and defend a complete, portfolio-verified AI strategy that holds up under scrutiny.
I want to be direct about what this program is not. It is not an introduction to chatbots. It is not a survey of consumer AI tools. It is not a certification you earn by watching videos and answering multiple-choice questions. It is rigorous, portfolio-driven executive education — the kind that produces deliverables you can deploy, decisions you can defend, and leadership credibility that compounds over time. If you are ready to move from managing AI uncertainty to architecting AI strategy, I am ready to work with you. This is exactly what the Brown Tech AI Academy was built for.
— Pauline Brown Smith, EdD
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