First, a big welcome to all of our new Ripple Effect Educators members! We’re so glad you’re here. This community is about making AI feel useful, practical, and a whole lot less overwhelming — no matter where you’re starting. We are in the middle of remodeling and building so please excuse the mess :) Our monthly classes are going to return in September with a date being announced soon. To get you jumping in right away, here’s today’s tiny prompt that can work with school or your personal life. “Help me make this easier. Ask me one question at a time, then suggest the simplest next step.” Try it with something already on your plate — a lesson, email, project, activity, planning task, or even an idea you haven’t quite figured out yet. New members: introduce yourself below and tell us what you teach, do, or hope AI can help you with. Everyone else: if you try today’s prompt, tell us what you used it for! Welcome to Ripple. We’re happy you found us. 💙

I came across a simple idea in some recent AI-in-education research that I think is worth playing with: Human → AI → Human The idea is that we don’t always need AI to be the first step. We can: First: Think, brainstorm, attempt, or create on our own. Then: Bring in AI to critique, expand, explain, challenge, or help us see something we missed. Finally: Come back as the human and decide what stays, what changes, and what gets thrown out. I really like this because it moves us away from the conversation of: “AI or no AI?” and toward: “Where should AI show up in the learning process?” So I’m curious: Think about one assignment, lesson, work task, or student-support activity you do. Where would you put AI in the process — beginning, middle, end, or nowhere at all? And why? There isn’t one right answer. I want to hear how you’re thinking about it.

Wins Wednesday Okay, tell me your win this week. And no, it does not have to be some huge, life-changing accomplishment. Maybe you finally figured out the thing that has been annoying you for days. Maybe a student had that lightbulb moment. Maybe you tried something new and it actually worked. Maybe you answered all the emails sitting in your inbox. (If so please share the secret) Maybe you made it through a meeting that absolutely could have been an email. (You know this is true) Or maybe your win is simply that you did not spill your coffee on yourself this morning. I am counting that one. Wins are wins. So, what is one thing from this week that made you think: “Okay... I did that.”

Well you know how you have a great idea for a class. You present it and then it fails miserably. That is what happened with my new platform I was wanting to move us to. The site just couldn't do what I needed it to do. So we are going to stay here on Skool and hopefully grow. I will start this week with our different announcements for each day. Remember you can change notifications in settings if it is too much. We want you to grow not be annoyed. Tell us what are you excited about this year.

I wanted to let everyone know about this to keep your information safe. I am finalizing the new community, and we should be ready to roll in the next week or two. Think of it as our Back to School. I need to know what you want to know. OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol Deletes Users’ Files, Data, and Databases Without Permission: 11 Sources (Western Alternative: 4) | NewsCord | NewsCord OpenAI's new flagship model deletes files on its own, people keep warning | TechCrunch