A free AI governance program for schools.
Clear, practical AI guidelines your students actually carry with them: no software, no student data, no cost. Still In Charge gives high school and college students five principles for using AI without handing over their judgment, and it sits alongside the AI policy you already have.
The rules are not the hard part. The judgment is.
Most AI guidance for schools regulates the tool: what students may use, when, and how much. That matters, but it is not where students are most exposed. The deeper risk is judgment displacement, when the tool quietly takes over the deciding and a student turns in work they never actually thought through. It breaks no rule, so nothing flags it, and the skill simply fails to form in the years it was meant to. Read the concept.
Five principles, small enough to carry.
Not a ban students follow only while watched, but judgment they bring into the room when no one is. The student guide develops each one.
Think with it, not through it
Use AI to start and to check, but keep the deciding. You are the author of the work, even when the tool helped.
Protect what is private
Know what not to type in. What goes into a tool does not always stay yours.
Verify before you trust
Confident and correct are not the same thing. Check what it tells you against something real.
Follow the rules of the room
Every class, job, and platform has its own limits. Know them before you lean on the tool.
Know when to stop and ask
When something feels off, pause and bring in a person. Judgment includes knowing its own edges.
You stay in charge
Underneath all five is one idea, the one in the name: the machine does not sign your name. You do.
What your school gets.
The guides
The student reference and the parent guide, ready to distribute. Documents and web pages, nothing to license or install.
A few hours of the founder
About three to four hours, all virtual: a working session with administration, a one-hour teacher Q&A, and a one-hour parent Q&A.
Zero student data
No accounts, no logins, no tracking, nothing to breach. Students read public materials; nothing reads them back.
Free, permanently
No school or family ever pays, and the program takes no money from anyone: no sponsorship, no donations, no fees. Nothing commercial appears in student materials and no outside party receives data.
Nothing to install
No software, no integrations, no IT rollout. A security review has almost nothing to review, which is the point.
Product-neutral
It endorses no AI tool. It teaches judgment, privacy, verification, and accountability, not any vendor's product.
It complements your AI policy. It does not replace it.
Your acceptable-use policy sets the rules of the room. Still In Charge builds the judgment students carry when the policy is out of sight, or serves as a starting point where formal guidance is still forming. See how the two fit together, and the procurement FAQ for data, liability, opt-out, and approvals.
Bring it to your school.
We are glad to join a call with the people who need to approve it and answer questions directly.
Scheduling is for educators and administrators. Students never book, sign up, or provide any information.