Essays and notes
Writing from live work.
Notes on AI readiness, professional learning and education systems, written from programmes rather than from a distance. Longer pieces also appear on Substack.
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Selected pieces
The archive holds the longer record. These are the pieces I would point someone to first.
What 28 AI readiness assessments reveal about schools in Ghana
Workshops with school leaders at Cambridge International Schools Day in Accra. Hardware and tools are moving. Governance and policy are not.
The question is not which AI tools to buy
What 200 school leaders in Ghana taught me about AI readiness. A handful of hands went up when I asked who had a written school AI policy.
Your school isn’t behind on AI. You just don’t have a map yet.
A practical readiness framework for international schools in Sub-Saharan Africa, written for leaders who know they should act and need a way to start.
AI in education: lessons from Kuwait
What happens when educators move beyond the hype and get practical about AI in the classroom, after intensive training with KFAS and Cambridge.
From prompting to context engineering
A Kuwait University Science Month workshop for Life Sciences faculty on practical generative AI in higher education.
Context engineering: the next evolution beyond prompt engineering
Why starting a new chat and re-explaining the work every time is the wrong unit of professional AI practice.
Practical AI in education at the Cambridge-HP EdTech Fellowship
Notes from residency week at Jesus College, Cambridge, with the Latin American fellowship cohort.
n8n workflow automation for education and training
A guide for institutions that need automation around content and training workflows, without treating the tool as the strategy.
More in the archive
Older posts on publishing, indigenous knowledge and education technology remain in the writing category.