Where does your school sit on the AI governance ladder?
Most schools, as an institution, sit at Stage 1. Their staff do not. The distance between what people do and what the school can hold is the risk - and this assessment measures it.
A guided conversation, 8-10 minutes. No login. Your results are yours: we ask for an email only to send you the report, and answers stay on your browser until you choose to request it.
Five rungs, from Polish to Autonomy. How much of a task the school hands over.
Your result places the school on it, and your staff too, because the two are rarely on the same rung. See what the result gives you
- Polish“Tidy my email”Hands over least
- Can hold
- The school can hold surface-level, low-stakes, individual use, and often not even that
- Built
- Nothing, or one rule. No inventory, no owner, no record
- Draft“Write the first version”
- Can hold
- The school can hold AI producing first versions that a person owns, checks and discloses
- Built
- Guidelines, a short tool list, a champion or two. Held by people, not by the system
- Delegate“Do the whole task”
- Can hold
- The school can hold whole tasks being handed to AI, with accountability designed rather than assumed
- Built
- A coordinated governance system: policy, tools, data, training, roles, risk, reporting. The first stage at which a school genuinely governs AI
- Orchestrate“Run the process end to end”
- Can hold
- The school can hold AI running multi-step processes across people and tools, with designed checkpoints
- Built
- Governance in relation to pedagogy, wellbeing and community: principles, participation, audit trails, assurance
- Autonomy“Set the goal. Do the work.”Hands over most
- Can hold
- The school can hold goal-level delegation, governed by appetite, monitoring and assurance instead of step-by-step control
- Built
- Appetite, continuous monitoring, independent assurance, published position. Governance built so others can adopt it
Three steps. Ten minutes.
A report the board can read.
- Principal
- Business manager
- Deputy
- Board member
Whoever would have to answer the board. Twenty-six questions about what exists today, not what is planned.
- 26 questions
Answer what exists today
Not what is planned. A guided conversation, or a form if you would rather. Answer the option closest to the truth and the result is useful.
- Your stage, and 18 modules
See where the school sits
Which of the five rungs, Polish to Autonomy, your governance can honestly hold, and which of the EthosOne modules lead and lag. On screen, no email.
- 12-page PDF
Take it to the board
A landscape report your chair can read without you in the room: the stage, the module that sets your floor, and the three moves that lift it. Emailed to you.
8 to 10 minutes · No login · Answers stay in your browser until you ask for the report
Find out where you actually stand.
No login, and a board-ready report at the end of it. You will know your stage, the module that sets your governance floor, and the three moves that lift it.