Cognitive Sovereignty Self-Audit for School Principals
This audit measures whether your school's AI adoption is replacing your professional judgement or supporting it. Your answers reveal where you are making decisions and where AI tools may be deciding for you.
Before adopting any AI tool in classroom assessment, ask: what will students learn about their own thinking? If the answer involves the tool deciding or automating, reconsider.
Schedule quarterly conversations with teachers about which decisions they feel confident in and which ones they are deferring to AI. Eroding professional confidence is an early warning sign.
When setting student data policies around AI, ask yourself: if we cannot see what the student did or how they thought, can we really say they learned it?
Include in staff induction a conversation about cognitive sovereignty. Name the specific skills and judgements you hired them to make and want to protect.
Create a simple decision tree for assessment: if the question is about student thinking or progress, human teachers decide. If it is about scheduling or data entry, AI can support. Publish this so it is clear to everyone.