Practical writing on AI in education, school technology, IT leadership, cybersecurity and digital transformation.
Why “Is AI allowed?” is the wrong policy question, and what schools should ask instead. A child comes home with an assignment: “Write an essay. Do not use AI.” That same morning, the child may have sat in a technology class learning how AI works, how to prompt it, how to check its output, and […]
AI in Schools: Ban It or Teach It? The Question Is Wrong Read Post »
The Policy Everyone Wrote and No One Uses Sometime in the last two years, nearly every school leadership team sat down to write an AI policy. The process was usually the same. A working group was formed, a few examples from other institutions were collected, and a document emerged with familiar sections: a statement […]
The AI Policy Vacuum: Why Most School AI Guidelines Fail Within a Semester Read Post »
Ask a teacher what they did today and you will get a list that does not fit any job description. They explained photosynthesis, noticed that a quiet student had stopped eating lunch, rewrote a worksheet because the printed one had a mistake, mediated a dispute over a phone, marked twenty-eight essays, emailed a parent who […]
The Last Generalist Teacher: How AI Fragments the Teaching Profession Read Post »
Every school runs on a clock that has almost nothing to do with how people learn. The bell rings at 7:45 because buses need to be back for the second run. Mathematics happens in period three because the mathematics teacher has period four free for Grade 9. The year begins in September and ends in […]
The School That Never Closes: When Learning Loses Its Schedule Read Post »
AI isn’t coming for every IT job. It’s coming for the repetitive parts of your IT job. For years, system administrators have been the people behind the scenes keeping organizations running. They create user accounts. They reset passwords. They manage servers. They troubleshoot network problems. They deploy software. They monitor systems. They maintain backups. They […]
Will AI Replace System Administrators? The Truth About the Future of IT Jobs Read Post »
Running IT for a multi-campus international school isn’t glamorous. It’s not the startup world where you’re disrupting industries. But it’s where you learn more about resilience, stakeholder management, and infrastructure scaling than anywhere else. Managing IT systems across multiple campuses means handling hundreds of users, thousands of students, and competing priorities from teachers, admins, parents, […]
IT Infrastructure for Multi-Campus Schools: Building Systems That Scale Read Post »
Compliance feels like a checkbox. Submit the audit, pass the inspection, move on. But in the GCC, cybersecurity compliance isn’t just regulation—it’s infrastructure. Get it wrong, and you’re either paying fines, losing customers, or both. Get it right, and you build trust that becomes competitive advantage. I’ve spent the last decade managing cybersecurity frameworks for […]
Cybersecurity Compliance for GCC Businesses: NCA, ZATCA, and Beyond Read Post »
The email landed in your inbox at 4:47 PM on a Friday: “Can you send me the IT budget for next year by Monday?” If you’re the IT leader at an international school in the GCC, you know this feeling. You’re caught between two worlds. On one side: aging servers running systems installed a […]
IT Budgeting for International Schools: Balancing Legacy Systems and Innovation Read Post »
An insider’s perspective on closing the gap between education technology and school realities After 11 years managing IT infrastructure at an international school, I’ve sat through countless vendor pitches, evaluations, and implementations. I’ve seen solutions that promised everything deliver very little. I’ve also watched genuinely innovative vendors struggle to gain traction because they didn’t understand […]
What International School IT Leaders Wish Vendors Knew Read Post »
There’s a well-documented phenomenon in education: when stakes attach to test scores, curriculum narrows. Schools teach to the test. Subject areas not on the test—arts, social studies, sciences beyond what’s assessed—lose instructional time. Teachers focus on measurable skills. Deeper, messier, less-testable forms of learning get compressed. This is old news. What’s new is the feedback […]
Your institution just wrapped a $400,000 LMS migration. The vendor promised integration. The implementation partner promised change management. The steering committee promised adoption. Six months in, teachers are uploading PDFs to a digital filing cabinet and students are still emailing assignments to their instructors. The platform is failing. Or so the story goes. The platform […]
Why Your LMS Implementation Failed (And Why the Next One Will Too) Read Post »
The Scene It’s 7 a.m. on a Tuesday. A high school English teacher sits in an empty classroom with her laptop open. She has 90 minutes before students arrive. This time used to be for lesson planning, creating handouts, or just breathing. Now it’s for data work. She’s reconciling data across four systems. Last week, […]
Why Teachers Are Becoming Data Analysts (And Why That’s Wrong) Read Post »