It is Thursday afternoon and you have seventeen advising notes open in a browser tab, a stack of accommodation letters from the disability services office, and a student whose writing has suddenly deteriorated in ways that suggest something is wrong at home. You want to do something useful. You open Claude. This chapter is about what happens in the pause before the prompt. Most AI-in-education discussions rush past that pause. This one does not, because the pause is where your students are protected or exposed.