Megan Hsu
Sunnyvale School District Special Education Administrator
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Megan Hsu is a school district administrator in the Bay Area, California, and the founder of Edumated: Education Automated, an initiative focused on helping educators and leaders harness AI and automation to transform how schools operate. She leads special education programs by day and builds the infrastructure she wishes existed by night, developing applications and training programs that streamline the work of managing people, documentation, meetings, and decisions across complex school systems. Her years of classroom teaching, program leadership, and hands-on systems design give her a vantage point that spans both sides of the admin table.
Megan is a frequent presenter on AI in education and has spoken at ACSA Women in School Leadership, ACSA Every Child Counts, CAAPLE Con, the CEC Convention, and the CASE Conference, with international conference presentations at IASE in Bhutan and WCSNE in Oxford in 2026 Q2 and Q4. She is an active participant in the educator innovation movement, builds through national AI hackathons, and has won hackathons with projects AI Social Stories and BeastBlend. She believes the future of education will be shaped by the educators and leaders who design the systems they need themselves.
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What Blooms in Scarcity: A SpEd Leader's AI Operating System for Reflective Practice
ChatGPT is old news. The leaders getting real value from AI in special education stopped typing into a chat box and started building infrastructure: a personal Second Brain that captures their work, paired with a team of AI agents scanning, surfacing, and drafting alongside them.
This 75-minute session is a live walkthrough of one SpEd leader's working setup. Megan opens her actual vault, shows the daily-note-to-decision arc, and demos the agent team running in the background. Each agent is built around real work and produces results in the background autonomously.
The deeper move is reflective practice. A Second Brain plus an agent team makes thinking traceable across time, surfaces patterns the day-to-day blurs, and gives leaders space to reflect before they react. In a job where leaders are often positioned to be reactive, that shift is what blooms.
Three key audience takeaways:
1. A working architecture for a SpEd leader's Second Brain, distinct from consumer productivity framings
2. Five agent roles covering the highest-leverage SpEd admin work, with starter prompts to build each
3. The reflective-practice frame: how agents protect time for thinking, not replace it
The session includes a live vault walkthrough, agent demos on SpEd workflows, and a starter architecture participants can build this week.
Live It Before You Lead It: Building an AI-Powered Second Brain for Leading in an AI-First World
Students already live in an AI-first world. The leaders who will guide them well are the ones who have already built AI fluency in their own daily work.
Education leaders do not have a time problem. They have a systems problem. Decisions made across emails, meeting notes, and scattered tools disappear the moment the next meeting starts, and no amount of effort replaces the infrastructure that is missing.
This session walks participants through building an AI-powered Second Brain system: a personal vault fed by daily notes, paired with an AI partner that makes thinking traceable, pressure-tests decisions, and surfaces patterns across time.
Three key audience takeaways:
1. A working definition of an education leader's Second Brain, distinct from consumer productivity framings
2. Starter architecture participants can build this week: daily notes, inbox, projects, reflection prompts, and an AI partner
3. The connection between a leader's personal AI practice and preparing students for an AI-first world
The session includes a live walk-through of the presenter's vault, starter architecture participants can adapt immediately, and an honest read on the time investment and compounding return.
Bottle Your Expertise: AI Agent Operating System for Reflective Practice
Women in school leadership wear every hat: board liaison, instructional leader, HR, finance, crisis communicator, equity advocate, mentor, often inside the same hour. The standard AI pitch is one more tool. This session is the opposite. It shows how women leaders are bottling their expertise into an agent team that carries some of those hats with them, in their voice.
This walkthrough opens the working setup in action. Megan opens her actual vault and demos the agent team she runs alongside her SpEd leader role. Each agent is built to act in her voice and judgment, drawing on her past work and the daily reflection that feeds it.
The deeper move is reflective practice. A Second Brain plus an agent team makes thinking traceable across time, surfaces patterns the day-to-day blurs, and gives leaders space to reflect before they react. In a job that often forces reaction over reflection, that shift is the practice.
Three key audience takeaways:
1. The "bottle your expertise" frame: which decision patterns are agent-ready, which need living judgment
2. A starter architecture for a leader's Second Brain that an agent team can work from
3. The reflective-practice frame: how an agent team protects time for thinking
AI Advantage: Great Equalizer in Leveraging Tech to Overcome Gender Disparities in School Leadership
In a world that is quickly becoming AI-first, be at the forefront of educational innovation. Overcome the unique challenges that women in school leadership face, from imposter syndrome and work-life balance pressures to being underrepresented in decision-making spaces.
This interactive session explores how AI tools can serve as powerful equalizers, helping women leaders overcome traditional barriers and amplify their impact. Participants will discover practical AI applications that can streamline administrative tasks, enhance data-driven decision making, improve communication efficiency, and create more time for instructional leadership.
Through real-world examples, attendees will learn how to harness AI to build confidence, increase productivity, and establish themselves as innovative leaders in their districts. This session addresses the intersection of gender equity and educational technology, showing how AI can help level the playing field for women in educational leadership roles.
AI Revolution in Special Education: Create Your Own SPED AI Tools
Discover how to harness the power of AI to streamline processes and transform workflows in your district. This isn’t your typical “How to use ChatGPT in the classroom” session—this is your opportunity to learn how to create tailored, SPED-specific AI tools that address your unique needs. From automating tedious administrative tasks to designing solutions that directly impact your schools, classrooms, and students, this session will equip you with the knowledge and resources to personalize AI for your district. Let’s build the future of education together!
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