School board governance, started with the board
Start with your board.
In most of the schools we have sat with this year, the board has asked for something on AI, staff are already using tools nobody approved, and a parent has asked where the student data goes.
Real captures · AI governance day for school boards and leaders · demo school.
An AI governance day is a facilitated day EthosOne runs with a school's leadership team, and sometimes its board, to map where AI already touches the school's duties: child safety, privacy, records, WHS, staff conduct and the curriculum.
It does not require an EthosOne licence and carries no obligation.
What the day covers
A whole-school conversation, not an IT project and not a policy in a drawer. Somewhere in the year, this question needs a day without the bell.
Strategy
Where AI sits against the school's own plan, and what the board wants from it.
Risk and compliance
The AI risks already on the table, drafted with controls and treatments you can adopt.
Board engagement
What the board should ask, how often, and what it should see.
Streamlined processes
Where AI lightens admin load without loosening the controls around it.
Policies
Which of your existing policies AI touches, and where the gaps are.
Staff alignment
What staff are already doing, and the guardrails that help rather than hinder.
Accountabilities
Who decides, what is logged, who owns each decision.
Privacy and data
Student and staff data, where it goes, and what never leaves the country.
What you walk out with
Your AI risks, on the register
The twelve from the pack, adjusted to your school on the day, with controls and owners.
The eight questions your board should ask
Written for your chair, in your school's words.
A written read from us
Where AI touches your duties today, and what we would do first. Yours whether or not you go further.
Your school, our platform, handled with care
Pick the path that matches where you are this year, from a single day through to a system-wide roll-out. We work with you, not for you.
AI governance
Where are you on the AI maturity curve? Under five minutes, no licence required, and your next three moves at the end.
Take the AI maturity assessment
Clarity on duties before you commit to a licence.
Focused uplift
$15,000
Hand-crafted configuration that brings streamlined efficiencies across school admin, configured together and ready for January.
Configured together, ready for January.
One committed project
$15,000, the same as your licence fee
For schools transitioning from CompliSpace who would like the switch handled as one project rather than a drawn-out change.
One project instead of a drawn-out switch.
Systems-level roll-out
Let's talk
For school groups, multi-campus schools and dioceses partnering at systems level, with custom reporting and system-wide deployment.
One view across campuses, built with you.
Who is in the room
Sessions in South Australia may be co-hosted with CulturePathAI, our AI governance partner.
Dave Yeates
Co-founder and CEO. Design-trained, with an MBA in innovation and a decade advising regulated industries on risk and innovation. Leads EthosOne's thinking on AI governance.
Pete Holliday
Co-founder and COO. Master executive coach who spent a decade advising ASX and S&P listed companies. Works with principals and boards on how governance actually lands in a school.
“School governance and risk is a complex area without a clear solution, a time-poor disconnect with governance and risk management that relies on Frankenstein models of electronic and paper-based reporting and measuring.”
David RuggieroPrincipal, Blackfriars Priory School- Stored in AustraliaAWS Sydney and Melbourne, one database per school
- AI stays in the country tooHosted in Sydney and Melbourne; never trained on your content
- Published, not describedOur policies in the Trust Centre · How we handle your data
Book an AI governance day for your school
Tell us who you are and when suits. We will send the AI risk register pack straight away and a short pre-read before the day, so the time together is focused from the first hour. The bell will go again the next morning, and the register will still be true.
The six we are asked every time.
Still weighing something up? Thirty minutes with us, on your own registers, answers the rest.
Take the AI maturity assessment01Does the AI governance day require a licence?
No. It is a standalone day with your leadership team, with no licence and no obligation. What you decide afterwards is entirely yours.
02Who should attend?
The principal, business manager and the senior leaders who own policy, risk and IT. Chairs and board members are welcome, and boards often ask for a short version at their next meeting.
03What do we leave with?
A shared language for AI governance at your school, a first view of the AI risks on your register with controls, and a clear picture of which existing duties AI touches.
04How long is it?
A full school day on site, or two half days online if that suits the team better.
05What happens next if we want to go further?
Most schools move to a focused uplift, configured together in Term 4 and live in January 2027 on the published licence.
06AI governance day for school boards and leaders, in full: what does it cover?
PolicyAI has tagged the obligations a school already carries that AI activity now touches, so the day works from real obligations rather than a template. Schools receive the AI risk register pack on booking, and leave the day with a shared language, their first AI risks on the register with controls, the eight questions their board should ask, and a written read from EthosOne. EthosOne is not a governance framework. It is a maturity model, focused on organisational complexity and built on our work with Meta Agility, and the assessment tells a school where it sits before anyone books a day.
See how a board-first approach operates inside EthosOne school governance software.
