GPT-5.4 One Week Later
April 3, 2026
Launch week tells you very little about whether a new model belongs in everyday school work. This one-week-later reality check tests GPT-5.4 across four repeatable teacher workflows: redrafting text, building quizzes, adapting reading passages, and summarising policy documents. The focus is not on impressive demos, but on edit load, trust, and time saved. If your team is deciding whether GPT-5.4 deserves a place in routine planning and admin, this review offers a practical framework for keeping, retesting, or rejecting it.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Benchmarks Decoded
February 19, 2026
Benchmark headlines can make a new AI model sound either revolutionary or irrelevant, yet most school leaders and teachers are not given the context needed to judge those claims. This guide explains, in plain English, what Gemini 3.1 Pro’s reported results on ARC-AGI-2 and SWE-Bench actually mean, what those tests reward, and where their limits lie for real school use. It also offers practical ways to evaluate AI tools for teaching, planning, procurement, and governance without confusing lab performance with classroom value.
The QuitGPT Movement in Class
February 18, 2026
The QuitGPT backlash offers teachers a timely way to explore consumer activism, media literacy and AI literacy without turning lessons into partisan argument. This article shows how to use boycott posts, screenshots and viral claims as a case study in evidence quality, platform dependency and corporate ethics. It outlines practical questions, source-check routines and discussion protocols that help pupils move from outrage to enquiry. The goal is not to tell students what to think, but to help them examine how online campaigns shape trust, choice and public debate around AI companies.
January INSET: Practical AI by Department
January 6, 2026
January is the right moment to move school AI training from broad awareness to practical, low-risk use. This workshop plan sets out a shared 90-minute INSET session that every department can join, using free-tier tools and clear safeguards. It includes parallel pathways for reluctant and confident staff, realistic use cases across teaching, pastoral and admin work, and a simple first-half-term implementation model. The goal is not novelty, but consistent adoption that saves time, improves quality and stays within sensible privacy rules.
2025 in AI and Education: What Changed
December 31, 2025
2025 brought bigger models, louder launches and sharper policy debates, but schools did not change because of headlines alone. By December, the real shifts were quieter: tighter governance, more careful procurement, clearer safety boundaries and more selective use of AI for routine workload tasks. This end-of-year review judges the year by one practical test only: what actually altered day-to-day school practice. The verdict is clear. 2025 mattered less for dramatic breakthroughs and more for the boundaries and habits that finally became normal.
Gemini 3 Flash in Classrooms
December 3, 2025
Google’s move to Gemini 3 Flash as the default model will matter most in the small, repeated tasks that shape a teacher’s day. Faster replies can reduce friction when drafting emails, reformatting materials or generating quick classroom supports. Yet speed is not always the same as quality. In planning, differentiation and resource design, a faster model can produce tidy but thin outputs that need more checking. This guide explores where Gemini 3 Flash is likely to help, where caution is needed, and how schools can test the switch before it affects everyday workflow.
ChatGPT Turns 3: Education Impact Assessment
November 28, 2025
Three years after ChatGPT’s release, schools have enough experience to judge what has genuinely become settled practice and what remains volatile. This impact review offers a practical, evidence-pack approach for leaders: what to measure, what to stop measuring, and which artefacts to collect so decisions are defensible. It maps key shifts in policy, classroom routines and assessment integrity from 2022–2025, then sets out a realistic 2026 outlook without triggering tool sprawl. It finishes with a one-page SLT/governor briefing template for decisions in the next 30 days.
Parent Consultations: AI Conversation Brief
October 17, 2025
Parent consultations often arrive at the busiest point of the term, when your notes are scattered across books, spreadsheets, behaviour logs and quick reminders. This workflow uses AI as a briefing assistant to turn that mess into a one-page, parent-friendly “Conversation Brief” covering strengths, priorities and agreed actions. It is designed to be privacy-by-design, with UK GDPR redaction rules and a clear “never paste” list. It also includes SEND-sensitive language checks and translation steps that preserve tone without over-promising outcomes.
October half-term AI CPD in a box
October 16, 2025
Half-term CPD often becomes a pile of tabs, good intentions, and no classroom change. This ‘CPD in a box’ gives you two self-study routes (5-day or 10-day) that end with a small, auditable micro-credential portfolio: clear artefacts, short reflections, and practical impact notes. It is designed for minimum-data workflows, a single tool stack, and human sign-off, so you can implement safely without adding workload.
LGR22 Section 2 Throughlines with AI Micro-Tools
September 15, 2025
LGR22’s Section 2 is designed to hold subjects together, but it can feel hard to evidence without rewriting every scheme of work. This article shows how to turn Section 2 (Övergripande mål och riktlinjer) into an inspection-ready, start-of-year cross-curricular ‘throughline’ in one short team session. Using four small AI micro-tools, you can make coherence visible across värdegrund, demokratiuppdrag, hållbar utveckling, and språk- och kunskapsutvecklande arbetssätt—while keeping privacy, transparency, and teacher judgement firmly in charge.
OpenAI DevDay 2025: Monday Action Plan
September 5, 2025
OpenAI DevDay 2025 will generate plenty of excitement, but schools need a calm, evidence-led route from announcements to day-to-day practice. This guide turns DevDay headlines into a one-week evaluation sprint you can run without using pupil data, alongside a short policy addendum and three ready-to-run pilots. You’ll get clear stop/go thresholds, practical tasks for staff, and templates for communicating boundaries to colleagues and parents/carers.
INSET AI Workshop: Three Micro-Routines
August 25, 2025
This ready-to-run INSET Day workshop helps staff move from general AI awareness to three agreed, policy-aligned micro-routines: lesson planning, feedback preparation, and parent/carer communications. It centres on one shared safety protocol so staff can use AI confidently without drifting into risky data use, unreliable outputs, or inconsistent practice. You’ll get a choose-your-length run sheet, a slide-by-slide deck outline, activities that produce tangible artefacts, and a 30-day implementation plan with simple evidence capture to evaluate impact on workload and quality.
Clearing Control Room: AI-Assisted UCAS Decisions
August 6, 2025
Clearing moves fast, but students deserve decisions that are calm, evidence-led and properly recorded. This ‘Clearing Control Room’ workflow gives sixth forms a time-boxed pipeline (15–30 minutes per student) that uses AI to generate option comparisons, question lists and call scripts without handing judgement to a tool. It centres minimum-data prompts, bias and safeguarding challenge passes, and a mandatory staff sign-off record for every recommendation. Use it to reduce errors, improve equity, and keep student agency at the centre.
End-of-Year AI Audit: Evidence Pack
May 29, 2025
An end-of-year AI audit helps schools move from scattered pilots to clear, defensible decisions. This guide shows how to produce an “evidence pack” for governors and SLT: a simple register of every AI trial, a keep/stop/scale decision for each, and the minimum evidence needed to justify it. You’ll also leave with a summer-ready action plan, with owners, timelines, procurement steps and policy updates. The aim is to protect staff time, improve pupil outcomes, and tighten safeguarding and data protection without slowing innovation.
GPT-5 release day school briefing
April 3, 2025
GPT-5 will arrive with headlines, hot takes and rapid product changes, but schools need a calm, repeatable way to judge what actually matters. This release-day protocol gives you a one-page briefing and a 60–90 minute comparative “bake-off” against your current model and workflows. You’ll test planning, feedback, accessibility, safeguarding and assessment using a minimum-safe environment, then make an adopt/pilot/park decision with clear evidence thresholds. It ends with the smallest policy tweaks leaders should make in week one, plus ready-to-send staff and parent messages that avoid hype.