Professional Development

We want to prepare our students for their emerging future - isn't that our core business? Understanding (by doing) is the first step - but you know that, you're a teacher!

Together we can build a package perfect for your teachers

Building Blocks to get you thinking:

1. GenAI Hack-a-thon. Let's get hands-on practical and competitive in a session that's learning-by-doing. It's way more fun that PD is supposed to be.

2. Understanding Generative AI. Aimed at your whole staff (and assuming nothing) this session gives enough of an understanding "under the hood" to stimulate great thinking. Nothing empowers like understanding - of course!

3. Practical AI for Teachers -NOW. A smorgasbord of practical ideas (including the how-to) for busy teachers to leverage AI to magnify their creative output. Build a fun class learning games and activities. Learn how to use AI to easily generate individualised learning, reflection of specific learning and to prepare activities and solutions they way you would. How to train AI to apply great pedagogy (e.g., cognitive load theory, SDT) in what it creates for you. In short, if AI is a dog, this is your puppy training class.

4. Build an AI Agent. Maintain your voice and create bespoke AI agents that know your lessons, your priorities and how to teacher by learning how to create AI agents. Create an agent to help your students reflect on, and evaluate their understanding in this module - where the AI agent know just what you have covered and how. Create agents to strealine a myriad of useful tasks so they are quick and easy to adapt and re-use. 

5. School leaders think tank. Aimed at your key staff, this session explores strategic thinking and how to guide your school for this complex adaptation. We draw on some great national and international thinking to plot an efficient path to an effective framework that will work for your school. Start building your adoption and policy framework... sure, we are building the plane while flying it, but we can still be intentional.

6. Authentic Assessment. This is the (first) pointy end of AI, the challenge to retain authentic and varied assessment without replacing everything with a test. Critically re-examining assessment lifts the hood on some great thinking to retain richness and authenticity even (and especially) in the age of AI. best combined with the Understanding Generative AI.

7. Trail Blazers and Early Adopters. You know who they are in your school and how crucial they are for effective change, so don't leave them yawning. In this session they start creating their own agents, harnessing the power of AI as creators not consumers and look towards the near future through the lens of "how can this boost teaching and learning?". (Max 6 participants, 1 hour)

8. Departmental Workshops. Small teams are a great place to bridge from the big ideas to the actual in a subject-specific context. The logical step is to assist your department teams to brainstorm, try, review and embed.

Stage these across the year and keep your staff in that zone of proximal development.

Let's take the biggest ideas and show how meeting student needs for CONNECTEDNESS, AUTONOMY, AND COMPETENCE nurtures the best from all our students. Focussing on the special tasks of adolescence, this powerful framework is garnished with practical ideas from and for real classrooms.

The goal of this PD is to empower time-poor teachers to make effective, incremental changes based on improved understanding.

This PD aggregates theories like Cognitive Load Theory, Load Reduction Instruction, etc within an overarching framework of Self Determination Theory to make sense of the world of modern pedagogy. We then pepper it all with decades of experience and collections of practical ideas and mesh that into a framework for overloaded educators to make achievable gains in their practice.

This is a terrific opening to a teacher-owned whole year professional goal setting, deliberate practice, followed by review, sharing an embedding to build your teachers' expertise.

1 - 4 hour variations available in your school.

Supported with curated professional readings for teacher action-research. Supporting your for the whole journey: thinking-idea-try-review-embed-celebrate.