Director of Technology and Innovation at an IB World School, and a former NSW Deputy Principal. Based in Chiang Mai, Thailand, leading a human-centred approach to technology integration. The podcast, the talks and the writing all live here.
Where this work runs
The podcast
Conversations with school leaders creating with AI, not just consuming it. Teachers and leaders talking about what they have actually built and what happened when they used it.
Cora Yang
Why the training so often fails to land, and what actually moves AI from a one-off session into the daily work of a classroom.
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Ryan Noonan
The on-the-ground view from a teacher actually using AI day to day, not the version from the conference stage.
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Ryan Krakofsky
What that says about what is now possible in a school, from a teacher with no coding background.
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Trust as the working currency of an AI-dominated world: why communication, empathy and real relationships matter more as it gets harder to tell human work from machine-generated.
ListenSpeaking
I speak at conferences and run sessions with whole staffrooms on AI in schools. The material is not a survey of the field. It is the work I am doing anyway: what I tried inside my own school, what the data said afterwards, and the parts I would do differently.
The test I use is the one I use with my own staff: can somebody use this the next morning? If a session cannot pass that, it does not go in.
Writing
What I'm working out, as I work it out. Short, practical pieces on putting AI to work in a school, written from inside the job.
Calm under pressure isn't a personality you're born with, it's a skill you can build. Borrowing five rules from scuba diving, here's how to keep your nervous system working while the pace of AI keeps rising, and why rest is structural, not a luxury.
Read on LinkedInMy most useful tactics on AI in schools, and nothing at all when I've nothing worth your time.
Impact
Different pieces of work over several years: whole staffrooms, school leaders at conferences, a multi-part workshop series, and my own school. A few of the numbers, so you can judge the work for yourself:
“I went from having no idea where to start with AI to knowing what systems there were to use, how to prompt them to do what I want, how to refine the output, and how to manage my team and students…”
RachaelHead of Science · AI confidence 2 → 7Read the story
“The collaborative element is absolutely key and the live support, sharing, listening sessions.”
Gideon WilliamsFormer Head of Digital Learning · Vibe Coding CollectiveRead the story
“I would recommend it for all settings and roles.”
Deputy PrincipalLeadership conference, New South WalesRead the story
Every one of these was tried in my own staffroom first.
Who I am
I'm Vaughn. I'm not describing this job from the outside. I'm in it too.
I'm a Director of Technology and Innovation and a former NSW Deputy Principal, leading the AI work inside an IB World School right now: the board that wants answers, the staff who are nervous, the parent email. I record and write what I learn as I go, because it is the version I wanted to read when I started.
Littlejohns is the name it all gets published under. The podcast, the talks and the writing come out of the same place, a school, on an ordinary Tuesday.