Educational consultant · keynote speaker · AI & early college
Every school is asking: "should students be using AI?"
Andy "Ace" Navarro helps schools move past the AI panic and build a culture of judgment — taught by someone who's actually in the classroom.
M.A. Rhetoric & Composition · Texas-certified educator · early-college program lead · bilingual (EN/ES)
I use AI tools daily in my own work — and I still grade ruthlessly for original thinking. That tension isn't a contradiction. It's the whole point.
The schools that win the next decade won't be the ones that ban AI or surrender to it. They'll be the ones that teach judgment — the skill of knowing when the machine is thinking for you instead of with you.
Signature Keynote
Why the real AI skill isn't using it — it's judging it.
Every school is debating the wrong question. The fight over whether students should use AI misses what AI actually is: a rhetoric machine — persuasion, framing, and influence running at scale, in every student's pocket. The urgent skill isn't prompting. It's judgment. Drawing on a classroom where he uses AI daily and still grades hard for original thinking, Ace reframes the whole conversation — from catching cheaters to building discernment.
60-min keynote · half- & full-day workshops · staff PD or student assemblies · tailored to your audience
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Talks and staff PD that move a room past the AI panic toward judgment.
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Explore →Why Ace
I use these tools every day to create — and enforce real standards for original student thinking. I hold both ends of the rope.
My specialty is rhetoric and composition. I can show what AI does to how we think, write, and persuade — in ways a tech vendor can't.
I lead early-college programs for first-generation and bilingual students — so AI access and equity aren't an afterthought.
Curricula, programs, and content I've actually built and run. When I say a practice works, it's because it worked in my room.
Tell me your audience and your date — I'll tailor the talk so it lands with your people, whether that's a staff PD day or a packed conference hall.
Include your school or event, your audience, your date, and what you're hoping to shift.