Join Lee Crockett, author and global education consultant, as he explores how exceptional leaders build thriving, human-centred schools. Short, insightful episodes on leadership, culture, and professional wellness.
3.7 AI Should Strengthen Metacognition, Not Replace It
Lee reflects on how AI-supported learning can strengthen metacognition when students use AI to compare, test, revise and notice their own thinking. The episode distinguishes product improvement from thinking improvement and offers practical leadership questions.
Key Takeaways
Product improvement is not always thinking improvement.
AI can be used as a thinking mirror when students compare, judge and revise.
Metacognition requires students to notice what changed in their understanding.
Leaders should design for brief, useful evidence of planning, monitoring and evaluation.
27 Oct 2026
3.6 The Evidence-Rich Design Chain
Lee explores the Evidence-Rich Design Chain, a practical sequence for helping leaders and teachers design learning where student capability becomes visible: curriculum intent, capability demand, learning design, visible evidence, feedback and growth.
19 Oct 2026
3.5 The 5 Signs That Prove Students Are Actually Thinking
In this episode, Lee explores five practical traces that help teachers and leaders see student thinking when AI is part of the learning process: questions, choices, judgements, revisions and ownership. The episode focuses on better evidence, not more paperwork.
Key Takeaways
AI-supported learning requires clearer evidence of the learner inside the work.
Questions, choices, judgements, revisions and ownership give leaders and teachers practical language for visible process.
The goal is better evidence, not more documentation.
Schools can begin by choosing one trace for one task.
You can download the full Visible Agency Leadership Paper at https://leecrockett.net/visible-agency (https://leecrockett.net/visible-agency).
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