Jun 5, 2026 · 58 min · 7 segments
Data-driven schools aren't about spreadsheets — they're about seeing students. AJ Juliani led 150 educators in building AI-powered data dashboards using Claude Code, no coding required. Victoria…
AJ JulianiGuestVicki DavisHost
Debra DennyGuest
Victoria SoteroGuestWe first met when we worked on a project called the Flat Classroom Project together.
Remarkable innovator, educator, and also a Wall Street Journal and USA Today best-selling author.
He's an instructor at UPenn's Graduate School of Education and one of the most trusted voices in education innovation.
AJ has been leading the charge on helping schools use AI tools for data analysis.
He's back on the show to share how over 150 educators in his national U.S. cohort are building their own AI solutions instead of buying expensive ones.
If you've ever wondered what AI-powered data analysis actually looks like in a real school district, this will be the conversation for you.
Last time you were on the show, we talked about meaningful and relevant learning, the traffic light protocol, tools like Magic School, but now you've gone even further.
As we've all evolved over the years of using AI tools, one of the things that we've started to see with newer tools, the one that I use all the time is Claude Code.
The ChatGPT version would be Codex, is it's taken someone who has a little bit of programming knowledge.
I, I can mess around with HTML and CSS, a little JavaScript here or there, and it's allowed people to build things that you could only dream of before.
It has removed barriers that were ever in place for anyone, including educators who have had to pay so much money for custom tools for themselves, in the classroom, and for districts.
And so what I've done over the last year here is really help educators who wanna use it with a purpose and intentionality of creating things for their classroom and district to show them how to do that, walk them through some protocols, and, and give them steps to get there.
When educators who were not coders sat down to build an AI dashboard with Claude Code, Replit, or whatever, what surprised you about that?
But what was really surprising is the first thing that we did was we talked about what the problem was, and the problem was in schools, there's all these different data sets.
There's conversations in PLCs around data, but there's never any hub to see everything and to ask questions of the data.
Now it's just like I'm pulling spreadsheets or I'm pulling some graphs, but I can't interact with the data.
Everybody brought up, this is a very big problem that we have, and we're spending a lot of time, a lot of human capital and time doing that.
And so we first went and we prompted Claude saying, "What are 10 ways that we can use data effectively given our school districts or, or job title?" That type of thing.
We first met when we worked on a project called the Flat Classroom Project together.
Remarkable innovator, educator, and also a Wall Street Journal and USA Today best-selling author.
He's an instructor at UPenn's Graduate School of Education and one of the most trusted voices in education innovation.
AJ has been leading the charge on helping schools use AI tools for data analysis.
He's back on the show to share how over 150 educators in his national U.S. cohort are building their own AI solutions instead of buying expensive ones.
If you've ever wondered what AI-powered data analysis actually looks like in a real school district, this will be the conversation for you.
Last time you were on the show, we talked about meaningful and relevant learning, the traffic light protocol, tools like Magic School, but now you've gone even further.
As we've all evolved over the years of using AI tools, one of the things that we've started to see with newer tools, the one that I use all the time is Claude Code.
The ChatGPT version would be Codex, is it's taken someone who has a little bit of programming knowledge.
I, I can mess around with HTML and CSS, a little JavaScript here or there, and it's allowed people to build things that you could only dream of before.
It has removed barriers that were ever in place for anyone, including educators who have had to pay so much money for custom tools for themselves, in the classroom, and for districts.
And so what I've done over the last year here is really help educators who wanna use it with a purpose and intentionality of creating things for their classroom and district to show them how to do that, walk them through some protocols, and, and give them steps to get there.
When educators who were not coders sat down to build an AI dashboard with Claude Code, Replit, or whatever, what surprised you about that?
But what was really surprising is the first thing that we did was we talked about what the problem was, and the problem was in schools, there's all these different data sets.
There's conversations in PLCs around data, but there's never any hub to see everything and to ask questions of the data.
Now it's just like I'm pulling spreadsheets or I'm pulling some graphs, but I can't interact with the data.
Everybody brought up, this is a very big problem that we have, and we're spending a lot of time, a lot of human capital and time doing that.
And so we first went and we prompted Claude saying, "What are 10 ways that we can use data effectively given our school districts or, or job title?" That type of thing.
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