What We Do

Lift.ED Consulting works with education leaders at every level  from classroom to cabinet  to build AI implementation strategies grounded in purpose, equity, and community. Our work doesn't start with tools. It starts with the question every leader should be asking:

"Who does this technology serve  and who does it leave behind?"

Why This Matters Now

Education leaders are under pressure to implement AI quickly. Most are doing it without a principled framework  which means equity assumptions are already baked into every decision being made. The 5 Ps Framework gives leadership teams a structured way to slow down enough to ask the right questions, then move forward with intention.

The result is AI implementation that your community can trust  because it was built with them, not just for them.

AI doesn't come with values. Leaders bring them.

The 5 Ps Framework for Purposeful AI Integration™

The 5Ps Framework is built on LIFE the Liberation Innovation Framework Experience™ the philosophical foundation that runs through all of Lift.ED's work.

Our signature framework gives education leaders a principled, cyclical system for making AI decisions that center people not just processes. At the heart of the framework is People: the communities, educators, students, and families whose identities, histories, and ways of being must shape every decision.

People

At the center. Whose identities, histories, and ways of being are centered?

Purpose

AI that serves learning. Whose learning needs are prioritized?

Policies

Guidance that empowers. Who has voice in setting boundaries?

Pedagogy

Teaching that transforms. Which students are still on the other side of the divide?.

Practices

Systems that sustain. Are resources distributed based on need or access?

Try the Justice Juncture Analyzer

a free AI-powered tool that examines any AI decision your institution is making through all five Justice Junctures. No login. No email. Just the right questions.

Strategic AI Implementation Expertise You Can Trust

Dr. Lanise Block brings 27+ years of educational leadership experience to AI strategy, including:

  • Secondary classroom teaching, district leadership, and educational technology strategy

  • "Dr. Block is the creator of three connected frameworks: the Liberation Innovation Framework Experience™ (LIFE), which provides the philosophical foundation; Digital Kinship™, which applies it at the instructional level; and the 5Ps Framework™, which applies it at the executive level. Together they form one architecture for justice-centered AI implementation at every level of a system

  • Current university partnerships, teacher preparation programs, and nonprofit and education organizations across Minnesota

Institutional Engagements & Leadership Collaborations

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