Carla Penha-Vasconcelos, Alma I Behar, Nadiah S Al-Gasem, Danielle N Silvaggio, Lisa M Ridgley, Perla Myers
{"title":"Navigating AI in Education Through Dialogue and Co-Creation: An Organizational Reflection Through a Relational and Collaborative Leadership Lens.","authors":"Carla Penha-Vasconcelos, Alma I Behar, Nadiah S Al-Gasem, Danielle N Silvaggio, Lisa M Ridgley, Perla Myers","doi":"10.1002/yd.70074","DOIUrl":"10.1002/yd.70074","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article presents an organizational reflection on how the non-profit Jacobs Institute for Innovation in Education (JI) navigates the intricacies of innovation and leadership in the time of generative AI. By examining JI's multi-stage initiatives, through relational and collaborative leadership lenses, we illustrate how teamwork and the mobilization of partnerships foster an equity-centered approach to educational innovation. This reflection highlights how JI moves beyond the leader-centric model of educational change, building and nurturing leadership mechanisms that bring teachers, education researchers, and education leaders together to engage in innovative co-creation of AI-supported educational practices to bring positive change and impact to society.</p>","PeriodicalId":37658,"journal":{"name":"New directions for student leadership","volume":" ","pages":"93-99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148799078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Designing Epistemic Friction: Architecture and Protocols for Trickster AI in Leadership Education.","authors":"Yaw Ofosu-Asare, Rebecca Ailís Nally","doi":"10.1002/yd.70072","DOIUrl":"10.1002/yd.70072","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article presents a technical architecture and classroom protocols for Trickster AI, an approach to generative AI in leadership education that prioritizes epistemic friction over optimization. Building on a companion paper, it operationalizes trickster pedagogy through a five-layer system: pedagogical policy, cultural logic, contradiction engine, rupture scheduler, and debrief-evidence layers. It presents four protocols: the contradiction clinic, refusal studio, delay device, and relational accountability simulation, guiding interaction, debriefing, accessibility, trauma-informed care, and relational assessment. The central contribution is a bridge between decolonial theory and educational design practice, showing epistemic friction can be specified as a design problem, ethically governed and translated into pedagogical protocols.</p>","PeriodicalId":37658,"journal":{"name":"New directions for student leadership","volume":" ","pages":"75-83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13603954/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148851225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Learning to Lead with AI: Integrating AI into Nonprofit Leadership Education.","authors":"Megan B Pontes, Laurie Mook","doi":"10.1002/yd.70076","DOIUrl":"10.1002/yd.70076","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article examines how AI technologies are being intentionally and thoughtfully integrated into nonprofit leadership and management undergraduate and graduate programs at a southwestern university. Drawing from curriculum design and instructional practices in the Nonprofit Leadership and Management Department at Arizona State University, we highlight the design and implementation of pedagogical strategies balancing technical skill-building with critical engagement around AI's ethical and intercultural implications. We also explore how AI tools and their current use by nonprofits are introduced in coursework and how current and future nonprofit leaders are encouraged to critically examine algorithmic bias, underlying power structures, and the broader social implications of AI within the nonprofit sector and beyond.</p>","PeriodicalId":37658,"journal":{"name":"New directions for student leadership","volume":" ","pages":"109-115"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148762311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Liliana Caughman, Stephen Carradini, Claire Lauer, Sanjiv Thompson, Tallia Robledo, Natalie Parra Miguel
{"title":"RiverBot: Reimagining AI, Technology, and Leadership via Indigenous Co-Leadership and Relational AI.","authors":"Liliana Caughman, Stephen Carradini, Claire Lauer, Sanjiv Thompson, Tallia Robledo, Natalie Parra Miguel","doi":"10.1002/yd.70075","DOIUrl":"10.1002/yd.70075","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Contemporary chatbot development is often led by teams with highly specialized technical training, leaving little space for imaginative and community-centered approaches to technology. This can limit the ability of AI systems to reflect community priorities, place-based knowledge, and diverse ways of knowing. Using RiverBot as a case study, we examine how Indigenous scholars, students, and community partners co-led the development of Relational AI by carrying Indigenous epistemologies into chatbot design, evaluation, and implementation. We argue that Indigenous leadership fundamentally transformed what the technology became, demonstrating how collaboration across epistemologies can reshape AI development. Finally, we discuss how this collaborative process cultivates student leadership, expands interdisciplinary participation in emerging technologies, and strengthens Tribal communities through culturally grounded approaches to water education, stewardship, and decision-making.</p>","PeriodicalId":37658,"journal":{"name":"New directions for student leadership","volume":" ","pages":"101-107"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148841236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Teaching Craft Intelligence: Sovereignty Protocols for AI-Mediated Student Leadership.","authors":"Christine Haskell","doi":"10.1002/yd.70070","DOIUrl":"10.1002/yd.70070","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Artificial intelligence (AI) now mediates how student leaders learn and decide, creating a speed imperative that often rewards algorithmic fluency over human judgment and intercultural accountability. This article argues student leadership programs can turn AI from a plagiarism risk into a laboratory for craft intelligence (transforming knowledge and lived experience into sound judgment in action) and deliberate stewardship, which safeguards how knowledge is created, tested, and shared. It maps four perils (e.g., inquiry collapse, context erasure, algorithmic authority, and cultural narrowing) that introduces a Trace of Agency toolkit of four sovereignty protocols to make AI-assisted decisions transparent and leadership claims auditable.</p>","PeriodicalId":37658,"journal":{"name":"New directions for student leadership","volume":" ","pages":"57-64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13603953/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148991764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"AI is Here to Stay: A Scenario-Based Exploration of Leadership, Followership, and the Impact on Skill Development.","authors":"Maike Kugler, Laura S Aichroth","doi":"10.1002/yd.70067","DOIUrl":"10.1002/yd.70067","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Emerging AI technologies are transforming work and redefining how leading and following unfold when humans collaborate with AI as tool, agent, teammate, and autonomous partner. This article uses an action-based organizational learning scenario technique to develop four future workplace constellations: (1) AI as collaborative tool, (2) AI as delegated agent, (3) AI as team member, and (4) AI as autonomous partner. For each, it examines implications for reversing the lens and co-creation leadership and followership, specifying the competence profiles and AI literacy needed for responsible human-AI interaction. Comparing these scenario-specific requirements with current AI literacy levels reveals substantial gaps in leadership and followership education, motivating a stronger emphasis on critical thinking and prompt literacy in development programs.</p>","PeriodicalId":37658,"journal":{"name":"New directions for student leadership","volume":" ","pages":"29-36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13603941/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148799071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Daniel M Jenkins, Cristina de Mello E Souza Wildermuth, Kevin Bottomley, Mary Tabata, John J Sherlock
{"title":"Keeping the Leader in the Loop: Building AI Leadership Literacy, Critical Thinking, and Ethical Reasoning Through Experiential Pedagogy.","authors":"Daniel M Jenkins, Cristina de Mello E Souza Wildermuth, Kevin Bottomley, Mary Tabata, John J Sherlock","doi":"10.1002/yd.70069","DOIUrl":"10.1002/yd.70069","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article presents the artificial intelligence pedagogical partnership model (AIPPM), a framework grounded in Fink's (2003) Taxonomy of Significant Learning and operationalized through nine experiential activities across diverse institutional contexts. Three distinct AI roles-Reflective Tool and Debate Partner, Co-Creator and Constructive Critic, and Case Generator and Learning Companion-guide pedagogical design that keeps leaders \"in the loop\" as primary decision-makers, developing both technical AI facility and critical consciousness. The article concludes with assessment strategies and implementation considerations for building AI leadership literacy while preserving the human judgment, cultural responsiveness, and ethical reasoning essential to effective leadership practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":37658,"journal":{"name":"New directions for student leadership","volume":" ","pages":"45-55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148799114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"AI Challenges and the Future of Education: A Needed Epistemic, Political, and Ecological Agenda for Critical Leadership Scholars and Practitioners.","authors":"Antonio Jimenez-Luque, Yihe Yang","doi":"10.1002/yd.70078","DOIUrl":"10.1002/yd.70078","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Artificial intelligence is already transforming contemporary education. Besides revolutionizing how students learn and educators teach it is also challenging the frameworks of knowledge and power that underpin leadership. Unfortunately, and because of an imposed discourse of urgency spread from big AI corporations and economic and political interests, AI has been rapidly integrated into educational settings without a profound and critical evaluation of its assumptions and consequences. This is the main reason why leadership educators need to move beyond understanding AI's technical capacity to a deeper engagement with its impact on the meaning, practice and power of leadership.</p>","PeriodicalId":37658,"journal":{"name":"New directions for student leadership","volume":" ","pages":"125-129"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148762681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Legitimacy Under Algorithmic Authority: A Relational Diagnostic of Leadership Education in AI-Mediated Contexts.","authors":"Matthew Christian Agustin","doi":"10.1002/yd.70066","DOIUrl":"10.1002/yd.70066","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As algorithmic systems become embedded in leadership development, evaluation, and recognition, they increasingly shape how authority is formed and justified. This manuscript argues algorithmic authority poses a legitimacy challenge for leadership education, especially when judgment is co-produced by humans and systems. It introduces the Surface-Cultural-Institutional-Systemic (SCIS) framework as a diagnostic lens for examining how legitimacy is configured, misaligned, or strained within hybrid authority systems. Rather than prescribing AI use or attributing legitimacy to algorithmic systems, I position leadership education as a formative but bounded site for cultivating conceptual readiness to interpret legitimacy as relational, contested, and mediated.</p>","PeriodicalId":37658,"journal":{"name":"New directions for student leadership","volume":" ","pages":"19-27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148799089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reimagining Leadership in the Age of AI: Questioning Authority, Agency, and Pedagogy.","authors":"Antonio Jimenez-Luque, Yihe Yang","doi":"10.1002/yd.70064","DOIUrl":"10.1002/yd.70064","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37658,"journal":{"name":"New directions for student leadership","volume":" ","pages":"5-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148759760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}