Hire Ground Podcast Episode 24: The Ed Comes First: Ben Kornell on AI, Talent, and Who Gets to Build
Episode 24 of Hire Ground Podcast
Ben Kornell has been a teacher, school leader, school board member, edtech CEO, and investor. He calls it a “lily pad journey” instead of a career ladder. He co-founded Edtech Insiders and invests through the Common Sense Growth Fund, so he talks with more education founders and operators than almost anyone. In this episode, he joins host Christina Greenberg to talk about where AI actually fits in schools and what it means for the people doing the work.
Where AI is ready for schools
- Green light for operations, yellow for teacher tools, red for anything student-facing
- Why behavior change, not the technology, is the hard part of any new tool
- Why slow, steady growth beats the hockey stick in education
What it means for talent
- Which roles are merging into one
- Why so many chief of staff jobs are set up to fail
- What changes when your own team can build what you used to buy
- A caution on student data privacy for a new generation of teacher-builders
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Hire Ground is the essential podcast for K12 school and nonprofit leaders who are serious about hiring, retaining and developing high performing teams. This podcast brings together thought leaders, executives, and board members for honest conversations about leadership, hiring, governance, and what it really takes to build a thriving organization from the ground up.
Hire Ground is hosted by Christina Greenberg - founder and CEO of Edgility Search and 20-year veteran of executive search and nonprofit talent - and was co-created with Josh Czupryk, founder of Josh’s K12 Jobs Blast.
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