Considered thinking on AI, pedagogy, and leadership — written for teachers and school leaders with a class to teach tomorrow morning.
By Alex Gray · 11 min read
When the cost of producing an essay, a slide deck or a rendered image falls to zero, the most valuable thing in a school is the adult who reads the room. A piece for Heads, Heads of Sixth Form and Pastoral Leads on why the pastoral office is now the strategic centre of the AI response.
From one-pagers to living documents — what actually holds.
7 pieces02Infrastructure, literacy, and the uncomfortable audit questions.
8 pieces03For heads, HoDs, and the people carrying the weight of the decision.
11 pieces04What learners are telling us when we finally stop talking.
3 pieces05Field notes from shipping software for teachers, in the open.
4 pieces
We have spent two years asking what AI can do for teachers. We forgot to ask the students. What they told us challenges the assumptions most schools are working from.
Concrete, honest conversations about AI in education. Al Kingsley on assessment and equity, Tom Raithby on building Chalkd with no coding background, and Matthew Wemyss on what school leaders are missing about student AI use.
Nobody planned for this. When schools across the UAE shifted to distance learning, it happened within hours. This is about how we are teaching through it: the tools, the pedagogy, and the human infrastructure that holds everything together.
A ten-minute diagnostic built from two years of conversations with heads, HoDs and IT leads. Your result is a private, shareable score — plus the one place to start.
Head of Sixth Form & BSME Network Lead for AI in Education. Alex explores how artificial intelligence is reshaping teaching, learning, and the future of work — with honesty, clarity, and a focus on what matters most for educators and students.
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