Everyone’s talking about AI in education. But the truth is that many teachers and school leaders still feel like they’re on the outside looking in.
The UK government’s new AI CPD pack is a step forward. It’s clear, careful, and full of practical tools:
– Safety checklists
– Risks
– Prompt frameworks
– Lesson examples
– SLT audits
But it’s also missing something vital.
It’s helpful… but not inspiring.
The tone leans risk-first, the design is text-heavy, and then… and here’s my issue, the assumption – at least that’s the feeling – that schools already have the time, leadership, and tech-fluency to make it work.
And we know most don’t.
So here’s what we’re seeing inside schools that are making progress:
1. Start small. One AI prompt, one shared win at a time.
2. Create moments, not just materials. Lunch-and-learns work better than PDFs and videos about the amount of water it takes to power AI… (a very different conversation, see my article on just that topic)
3. Focus on confidence, not just compliance.
The goal isn’t only to understand AI, at least not in depth. It’s to feel ready to use it. Because AI in schools won’t scale through fear and the feeling that we are falling behind…
It’ll scale through stories, shared practice, and small wins passed from teacher to teacher, school leader to another.
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