Leading your school through AI: Essential strategic steps

AI Journey Roadmap infographic showing strategic steps for school leaders to integrate artificial intelligence across schools

Leading Your School Through AI: Essential Strategic Steps As a school leader you are currently going through one of the biggest technological shifts, with Artificial Intelligence (AI), changing the way in which we work.  The promises around AI are big, such as reduced workload for all, personalised learning support to support each pupil in the […]

AI in Education 2026: From tools to proactive teammates

A futuristic classroom illustration featuring a human teacher collaborating with a humanoid robot AI teammate in front of a digital screen, while students work at a round table with laptops.

AI in Education 2026: From Tools to Proactive Teammates As we enter 2026, the conversation around Artificial Intelligence is moving fast! So far we have viewed AI as a reactive tool, a chatbot we prompt to get a response. However, the horizon has shifted. We are now entering the era of proactive agents: AI that […]

AI and Robotics – The brain and the shell working together

Beverly Clarke MBE interacting with a white humanoid Pepper robot holding a tablet at the Milton Keynes Smart City and Robotics Symposium.

AI and Robotics – The Brain and the Shell Working Together Artificial intelligence and robotics are often spoken about as if they are separate fields, yet in reality they are deeply intertwined. Think of it like this,  AI as the brain and robotics as the shell that brings thinking to life. One without the other […]

Religion & AI: Sacred spaces, Digital faces

Interior view of Guildford Cathedral, showing the high vaulted ceiling, nave, and tall, narrow windows in a modern Gothic style.

Religion & AI: Sacred Spaces, Digital Faces A few months back, I attended my friend’s ordination. It was a beautiful, deeply spiritual ceremony filled with tradition, ritual and reverence. Yet, as I sat in the pews listening to the choir and watching the service unfold, something unexpected struck me. All around me, quietly woven into […]

Science & Artificial Intelligence: Could the iPlanet become reality?

Stylized, colourful watercolour illustration of a sun surrounded by planets and stars, symbolizing space, the future, and big ideas.

AI in Science: From Sci-Fi Musicals to Ethical Classrooms Technology touches almost every part of our lives these days, and sometimes it feels like the line between science fiction and science fact is getting blurrier by the day. A while back I saw the musical We Will Rock You and found myself fascinated by the […]

How to integrate AI in Schools

The Clarke Model for AI in Education diagram showing six linked components: Strategy & Ethics, People, Pedagogy, Platform, Progression, and Impact

How to integrate AI in Schools Download the Clarke Model for AI in Education Introducing the Clarke Model for AI in Education When I think about how to implement Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Education and considerations that need to be given, it can seem overwhelming.  So I devised this model to give a broad overview […]

Introducing the periodic table for AI in education

A graphic titled 'The Periodic Table of AI in Education,' featuring 36 two-letter elements organized into six colour-coded categories: Core Technologies (blue), Applications in Education (green), Teaching Support Tools (yellow), Student Empowerment (purple), Ethics & Challenges (red), and Future Directions (grey). Examples of elements include ML (Machine Learning), NLP (Natural Language Processing), AT (Adaptive Tutoring Systems), TT (Translation & Transcription), BI (Bias), and HMC (Human-Machine Collaboration).

Introducing the periodic table for AI in education As educators we are constantly looking for fresh ways to encourage curiosity to get critical thinking going and to engage young people and conversations about technology and its impact upon our world, so I have created the periodic table of AI in education to do exactly that […]

From ‘Shokran’ to Siri: How AI Is Changing Language Learning

Thank you written in multiple languages including Italian, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Arabic, French, and English.

From ‘Shokran’ to Siri: How AI Is Changing Language Learning Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) have long been about more than vocabulary lists and verb conjugation. It’s really about building bridges — between cultures, communities and ways of thinking. In an age of artificial intelligence, those bridges are being built faster and more intelligently than ever […]

From Shakespeare to AI: English Language and Voice

Stylised illustration of a human profile facing an AI circuit profile, with bold blue text reading “VOICE, BIAS AND AI” above.

From Shakespeare to AI: English Language and Voice In English language classrooms, we’re not just teaching grammar and essays — we’re helping students tune into voice, perspective, and tone. We ask them to spot bias in a persuasive text, to question whether a narrator can be trusted, and to think about who is telling the […]