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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...