About
I'm a teacher who never stopped learning. Now I work alongside whole schools doing it with AI.
I'm Vaughn Littlejohns. I'm the Director of Technology at an IB World School in Thailand, where I lead technology and innovation across the school. I'm a former deputy principal, and I'm the practitioner schools work with directly when they partner with Littlejohns.
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A widening circle
I started in a workshop, not a boardroom. I was a woodwork, design and engineering teacher for years. Hands-on, practical, the kind of teaching where you can see whether it worked.
I'm still a teacher; I've just widened what I teach, and who I teach it to. Tech. Leadership. How to grow. How to use a tool without letting it use you. I've taught the teachers too, coordinating Masters of Teaching courses at two Australian universities.
The story of my career is a circle that keeps getting bigger. First I wanted to do right by one classroom. Then by a team. Then I became a head teacher and a deputy principal and wanted to do right by a whole school.
The circle kept widening: 400-plus teachers trained in practical AI across Thailand, Australia and the UK, forty deputy principals across two leadership conferences, a 764-person baseline for a London school. Now I'm a Director of Technology and Innovation at an IB World School, and the circle is wider again: I want a whole community of schools to be able to use AI in a way that enhances learning instead of hijacking it.
Everything Littlejohns brings to a partner school ran inside my own school first.
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Practitioner, not consultant
There's a crowd of people who talk about AI in schools. Far fewer are doing it, this week, inside a real one, with real staff, real safeguarding questions, and a board that wants answers. I'm one of the ones doing it. That's the whole basis of how I work.
It means I'm not describing your job from the outside. I'm carrying the same thing you are. When I say something works, it's because I've already tried it in my own staffroom, and when something doesn't, I'll tell you that too.
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Better to go together than alone
I used to be very much “I've got this, I can handle it.” The mindset I'm trying to live by now is the opposite: it's better to go together than to go alone. That's not a slogan on a wall. It's the reason Littlejohns is a partnership and not a slide deck. We come alongside your people and stay until the capability is theirs.
Two ideas sit under everything I do. One: effort equals results. You put the work in, you build the resilience, you get the outcome. Two: if someone, somewhere, has achieved the thing you're aiming at, then why not you? Confidence isn't something you wait to feel. It's built through competence, by getting good at the thing, one honest step at a time.
It's also why I'm deliberate about the other side of the technology. I spend my time off on trails, not screens: multi-day hikes through Tasmania, the Budawangs and New Zealand, phone off, are where most of this thinking gets done.
Inside my own school that isn't a personal quirk, it's curriculum: the digital citizenship work our team teaches students is about emotional regulation around technology, knowing when to put it down, not just how to use it. The same person advising your school on AI should be able to make the case for switching it off.
From a multi-day hike through the Budawangs: why going together beats going alone. There's a longer version from the Tasmanian backcountry: "Community to me is the ability to push for hard things together."
"[It's] a wonderful non-judgemental and confidence giving approach."
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Why “Littlejohns”
It's my name, and it carries the work better than anything I could have invented.
A teaching family
My mum and my sister are teachers. In their schools they were “Mrs LJ.” Littlejohns isn't a tech consultant crossing into education. It's the family name carried into the next part of the profession.
One of the Merry Men
Little John wasn't the leader of Robin Hood's Merry Men. He was the most capable practitioner among them. A small band of expert outsiders, putting valuable things in the hands of the people who need them, not the ones who already have them. Right now, that valuable thing is AI capability.
Bigger than me
The name is built to outlast one person. As Littlejohns grows, practising educators come alongside more schools under the same banner, so it was never going to depend on me alone.
In my own words
Hear how I actually talk about this.
The fastest way to know whether we'd work well together is to hear it, not read it. Start with this one: senior students putting me on the spot about AI, sceptics included. It's the conversation schools are actually having.
Senior students interview Vaughn on AI: the questions, the pushback, and the honest answers.
The podcast is the long version: real conversations with educators doing the work.
"He doesn't let you get away without asking yourself the uncomfortable questions you need to grow, but gives you a safe space to do it."