Email 3 — The Follow-Up

Send within 48 hours. Momentum dies fast.

Subject: The Failure Log is attached — and here's what happens next

Thank you. That was a genuinely good day, and it was good because people were honest.

Attached / linked:

• 📎 The Irvington AI Failure Log v1 — everything the Red Team broke, with contributors

named. This goes to every teacher in the district. [NAMES], this is your document.

• 📎 The AI Literacy Lab — the full web toolkit. Open index.html. No login, no

internet needed, nothing collected. Keep it, share it, use it in September.

• 📎 The framework, the toolkit, and the guardrail card — print the card. Put it on

your wall. That's the one that actually gets used.

• 📸 Photos of your commitment stickies — because you wrote them, and because we said

we'd hold you to them.

The three things we agreed on:

🚦 Clarity — Every assignment gets a light. Red, Yellow, or Green. If students don't
know which one, the light is Yellow and you can't penalize them for a rule that lived only
in your head.

🧠 Capacity — Move the grade from the product to the process. The September baseline,
the two-minute oral check, version history, and a rubric that doesn't put 100% on the final
artifact. All free. All more effective than any detector.

🤝 Community — "Walk me through how you made this" — never "did you use AI." A zero
teaches "don't get caught." A redo teaches the content.

By [DATE ~30 days out]:

• One unit labeled R/Y/G
• September baseline write scheduled with every class
• Guardrail card on your wall

We'll run a 60-minute clinic on [DATE] — bring one assignment, leave with it rewritten.
Optional, no prep, lunch provided.

What leadership took away from your session:
You raised things that aren't teacher-level fixes — pacing gates in the credit-recovery
platform, randomized item banks, extension management on student devices, and the
credit-recovery policy itself. Those went to [NAME/OFFICE] with a timeline, and you'll get
an update by [DATE]. You were right that those aren't your job. They're being handled.

The thing worth repeating:

Six months of coursework in six hours wasn't created by AI. It was revealed by it. That's
uncomfortable, and it's also the good news — because it means the fix is something we
control.

We're not the last generation of teachers before AI. We're the first generation who gets to
decide what it's for.

— [NAME]

*Reply with what's working and what isn't. Version 2 of the framework gets built from your
answers, not from a vendor's.*