Six-week live cohort for K-12 operations leaders

Your school needs a Chief Automation Officer. It should be you.

Learn to build automated workflows and AI agents that will save your team 20+ hours weekly. Build with AI, no prior coding experience required.

Oct 13 – Nov 17, 2026 · Live online · Limited spots

We’ve spent years building automations at leading K-12 charter schools

Amana Academy
Zeta Charter Schools
Charter School Growth Fund
AI for Equity

For school operations leaders who want to learn by doing

Your workflows are time-sensitive and data-intensive, with zero margin for error. Your team is overstretched, manually moving data between systems to keep it all running. You know AI and automation could help, if only you could build it.

You already have the systems thinking and operations experience to keep things running. Let AI help you move faster and create durable systems. Instead of generic AI workflows, this course will teach you how to build and deploy tools purposely built for K-12 schools.

Hands-on learning to build tools that solve your actual problems

Oct 13 – Nov 17, 2026 Weekly live sessions Project-based

Weekly Build

Weeks 1–4 · Tuesdays 3:00–4:30pm ET

Attend 90-minute live sessions where you'll get hands-on practice building a new tool. You’ll also spend about 2 hours outside of class each week working on projects.

Project Weeks

Weeks 5–6 · Optional Office Hours

You design and ship an automation for your own school, with support from instructors.

Demo Day

Week 6 · Final live session

Share what you’ve shipped with the cohort, and see what everyone else built.

What we cover

Skills

01

Find the work worth automating

Not all work can or should be automated. Learn frameworks for finding and evaluating potential automations, and choosing what gets built.

02

Design solutions before building

Choose the right tool for the job, from spreadsheets to full AI agents. Learn to write design documents that account for the systems, workflows, and human input involved, so that AI produces quality output every time. 

03

Get systems talking to each other

Understand how systems expose their data to other software, and how to securely pass data between systems. Learn how to extract, clean, and organize data from different sources.

04

Direct AI to write code

Learn how to give instructions that are precise enough to get the right code, and how to test the output to catch and prevent errors.

05

Master the handoff

Learn how to properly document automations, set up error monitoring, and ensure your team can use these workflows without you.

Tools

n8n

A workflow automation platform that lets you connect various apps and AI models. It’s open-source, and you can run it on your own servers for more control.

Claude Code

Collaborate with an AI coding agent to design, build, debug and iterate on your automations.

Your own stack

Google Workspace, your SIS, CRM, and other platforms you’re already using. You’re not replacing your existing tools, just making them work better together.

What you’ll build

Every example below is something we’ve shipped for schools. In the cohort you’ll build automations like these, tailored to your own school’s needs.

Enrollment management

Pull inquiries from events, ads, and your website into one deduplicated list, with automatic follow-up so families stop falling out of the funnel.

Finance & compliance

Turn the monthly QuickBooks export into the board report and the authorizer format, without touching a formula.

HR & people ops

Build an agent that answers common questions from your actual policies, with a human check for sensitive questions.

Academic operations

Flag attendance patterns and send tailored family outreach.

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What partners say about our work

Taught by people who do this work in schools

Ope Bukola

Ope Bukola

Ope is a technologist with over fifteen years building products for schools. She founded and led Kibo, an accredited online computer science university for African students. Previously, she led product for Google Classroom, growing it from one million to over forty million users. Ope has extensive experience teaching school leaders to build automations, including leading training sessions for the Charter School Growth Fund portfolio and for operations leaders at AI for Equity. She serves on the board of Zeta, a network of high-performing K-12 charter schools in New York.

Funmi Oladapo

Funmi Oladapo

Funmi is an Automation Specialist at Zeta Charter Schools, where he builds and runs the automations for a 3,000-student network. He also serves as a Technical Trainer for Cambridge Spark, helping businesses in the UK educate their workforce in data science and AI. He’s a PMI-certified program manager with a passion for building workflows that turn manual, spreadsheet-heavy processes into reliable, scalable systems. He was previously an operations data analyst at Kibo, and taught automation skills to early-career technologists through Sourcing Sprints.

Tuition & format

$1,000 per seat

  • Four weekly 90-minute live sessions
  • Two project weeks with optional live office hours
  • Direct feedback on your build from instructors
  • Templates, prompts, and workflow maps for school operations
Book a call

Book a call to discuss if this bootcamp is the right fit for you. No commitment, just the details you need to decide. Final day to sign up is October 5.

Most schools pay for this out of professional development or operations budget. Use our reimbursement template to let your manager know you’re interested in a course that will improve your work.

Questions

Do I need to know how to code or use no-code tools?

Nope! No coding experience is necessary to take the class. We’ll teach you everything you need to know to start building automations using Claude Code. When there’s code, Claude writes it and you verify the results — learning to direct and review it is the skill we’re teaching.

What’s the time commitment?

This bootcamp was built for busy professionals. You’ll attend a weekly 90-minute live class in weeks 1–4, and will also spend about 2 hours outside of class each week on your own build. Plan for about 30 hours total over the 6 week period, including time spent on your final project.

What software will I need to participate?

n8n and Claude, plus the systems your school already uses. Both are low-cost subscriptions on top of tuition, and we’ll send the setup list and current pricing once you’re registered.

Does this teach how to use or build AI in the classroom?

No, and deliberately so. Our primary focus is on school operations. We cover some academic operations, but don’t touch instruction or classroom AI.

What about student data privacy?

Covered in session two, before you build anything that touches student information. You’ll leave with a checklist for deciding what’s safe to automate — and several of the highest-value workflows in a school don’t touch student data at all.

Can my school send more than one person?

Yes, and we’d encourage it! Mention it on your call if two or more people plan to join from your school, and we’ll provide a small discount.

Take the first step

Book a 20-minute call. We’ll discuss the work you’d want to automate and figure out whether this cohort is the right fit.

Book a call

Cohort starts Oct 13, 2026 · Sign up by Oct 5

Questions? Send us a note at hello@schoolrunbook.com