Schools are being asked to adopt AI faster than they can write the policy for it. I help school leaders, teachers and IT teams move from anxiety to a clear, safe and useful approach.
Where AI helps, where it harms and how to decide, without banning or blindly adopting it.
Helping staff and students understand how AI works, how to question its output and how to use it well.
Policy, privacy, bias, academic integrity and accountability, written so people actually follow them.
Tutoring, feedback and personalization that support teachers instead of replacing them.
Practical workflows that save time on planning and feedback while keeping teacher judgment central.
Reporting, communication and operations workflows that reduce manual effort.
Connecting AI tools to the systems schools already use, securely and with the right controls.
Curriculum, assessment and infrastructure decisions that still make sense in five years.
Why "Is AI allowed?" is the wrong policy question, and what schools should ask instead. A child comes home with...
Read more about AI in Schools: Ban It or Teach It? The Question Is WrongThe Policy Everyone Wrote and No One Uses Sometime in the last two years, nearly every school leadership team...
Read more about The AI Policy Vacuum: Why Most School AI Guidelines Fail Within a SemesterAsk a teacher what they did today and you will get a list that does not fit any job description....
Read more about The Last Generalist Teacher: How AI Fragments the Teaching ProfessionEvery school runs on a clock that has almost nothing to do with how people learn. The bell rings at...
Read more about The School That Never Closes: When Learning Loses Its ScheduleThere's a well-documented phenomenon in education: when stakes attach to test scores, curriculum narrows. Schools teach to the test. Subject...
Read more about The Testing Tail Wags the Learning Dog: What We Know About Curriculum Narrowing in the AI EraThe Paradox Teachers have more data about their students than ever before. Student information systems track attendance, grades, and behavioral...
Read more about The Data Literacy Crisis in SchoolsAI adoption succeeds or fails on the foundations: identity, data protection, devices, networks and clear ownership. That is where IT leadership and AI strategy meet, and it is where I work. Explore my expertise or see how consulting engagements work.
TRAINING PROGRAMMES
Workshops and programmes for schools, colleges and universities, delivered on site or online and built around your own systems.
Strategy, budgeting, vendor management, policy and running school IT as an accountable, planned service.
Practical training on Microsoft 365, Azure, networks, security and automation for school and university IT staff.
Using AI to plan lessons, differentiate, give feedback and save time, safely and with clear classroom rules.
AI for curriculum mapping, assessment design, moderation and tracking student progress.
Leading AI adoption: policy, risk, budgets, staff buy-in and measuring what actually improves.
Using AI responsibly for guidance, university and career research, wellbeing resources and documentation.
AI ACROSS THE CURRICULUM
Practical ways AI can support subjects that are often left out of the conversation.
AI-supported video analysis, personalised fitness plans and fair, data-informed assessment of skills.
AI for practice feedback, composition and ear training, while keeping performance and creativity human.
Conversation practice, instant feedback and graded reading for students learning a language that is not their own.
Let us work out a safe, practical starting point: policy, pilot and teacher support.
