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.
Remembrance: Teaching History Sensitively with AI
November 10, 2025
Remembrance teaching asks for careful language, accurate sources, and thoughtful representation—yet AI can unintentionally sensationalise trauma, flatten complex histories, or invent “authentic-sounding” details. This article offers a practical teacher-in-the-loop workflow for drafting assemblies, readings, and enquiries with AI while running three mandatory checks: emotional safety, representation and bias, and source integrity. You’ll also find prompt patterns, classroom routines that model verification without making it an “AI lesson”, a short transparency note for pupils and families, and a printable one-page checklist with a sign-off record.
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.
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.
AI Across the Curriculum: 8 Lesson Moves
March 18, 2025
“AI across the curriculum” works best when it is a small set of repeatable lesson moves, not a wholesale rewrite of schemes of work. This article offers eight AI-supported teaching moves you can drop into any subject, with quick prompts, teacher checks, and subject-specific examples. You’ll also find a copy-and-use one-page planning template, plus a single checklist covering safeguarding, privacy, accessibility and assessment integrity. The goal is simple: better learning habits, clearer evidence, and consistent boundaries—without tool sprawl.
Claude 4 / 3.5 Opus: claims-to-classroom protocol
March 3, 2025
New flagship AI launches arrive with bold claims: better reasoning, richer multimodal support, safer behaviour, and more “agentic” features that act on your behalf. For schools, the question is not whether the benchmarks look impressive, but whether the model is reliable, privacy-safe, and assessment-responsible in everyday teacher workflows. This article offers a practical “claims-to-classroom” evaluation protocol you can run in 90 minutes with no pupil data, plus evidence thresholds and checklists to decide whether to adopt, pilot, or park Claude’s next flagship.
What GPT-5 Might Mean for Schools
February 17, 2025
“GPT-5” is less a single product announcement and more a stress test for how ready schools are to procure, govern and use fast-improving AI safely. This article maps plausible capability jumps—longer context, stronger reasoning, more reliable multimodal understanding and early agentic actions—to everyday school processes that could be disrupted. It then offers a practical 30/60/90-day readiness plan, plus a leader-friendly checklist to update policy, vendor questions, staff training and classroom routines without committing to any one tool.
AI Assistant Showdown 2025: Teacher Triage
February 13, 2025
Teachers don’t need another “which AI is best?” list. What you need is a safe, repeatable workflow for the tasks that actually fill your week—planning, differentiation, feedback, safeguarding checks, citations, parent messages and admin. This classroom “triage” guide compares ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini by showing the minimum-data way to use each, a prompt pattern that reliably produces usable output, and the hand-off point where professional judgement must take over. It includes a printable decision tree and copy-and-adapt prompts with built-in human checks.
Gemini 2.0 Flash for Classrooms
February 3, 2025
Fast, lower-cost AI models such as Gemini 2.0 Flash can feel like the sensible choice for schools, especially when budgets are tight and staff need answers quickly. But “fast” is not the same as “safe” or “suitable” for every task. This decision guide explains, in plain language, what Flash-class models change for reliability, cost, and day-to-day classroom workflows. You’ll find practical use cases where low latency genuinely helps, a budgeting approach that forecasts from real routines, and a privacy-first checklist designed to avoid sharing pupil data with third parties by default.
LGR22 Digital Competence: An AI Evidence Pack
January 14, 2025
LGR22 expects pupils to use digital tools thoughtfully, understand how digital systems shape information, and act responsibly online. AI sits naturally within those expectations, but it does not need its own unit. This article offers a cross-subject “evidence pack” approach: small, teachable micro-artefacts that generate assessable proof of digital competence while you teach your normal content. You’ll get ready-to-run tasks for spreadsheets, programming, source criticism, fake-news analysis, and writing with digital tools—each mapped to centralt innehåll and designed to progress from mellanstadiet to Åk 8.