The Littlejohns Method
Listen. Learn. Create.
Lasting change takes a year of real use, not a single inset day. We work alongside one school at a time, in three stages, until your staff can run it without us.
Listen
Hear the voice of your community.
Learn
Policy, communication, and your own committee.
Create
Fluency, real tools, and the judgment that stays.
Stage 01 · Listen
Hearing your community: where does your school actually stand?
Most schools genuinely can't answer that question. AI is already in the building, at each teacher's discretion, in the shadows, with no shared picture and everyone holding a different opinion about what to do. So we start by listening: to your students, your parents, your teachers and your leadership team.
We consult with your leadership, then run an assessment across all four groups: teachers, students, parents and leadership. The assessment is the mechanism. The output is your baseline: a clear, honest picture of where the school stands, where confidence sits, and where the risks and quick wins are. The result is the thing schools almost never have: the voice of your whole community in one place, before any decision is made. The first real decision then gets made from what your people actually said, not a hunch. It's also low-cost and low-risk, which is why it's how most partnerships begin.
The survey is something we'll happily show you. The analysis layer behind it, how we read it and turn it into a plan, is ours, and it's a large part of what you're paying for.
Stage 02 · Learn
Policy, communication and Champions: the shared foundation, built with your people.
Before anyone builds anything, the whole school needs to be working from the same understanding. This is where that gets set: what AI is for, where the lines are, and who owns it inside your school.
Right now most schools run on a dozen private opinions about AI. One teacher bans it, another leans on it, a third is quietly unsure where the lines are. Learn replaces that with a shared position your community can actually point to: a policy your board can sign, a message that reaches every part of the school, and an internal group of your own people set up to carry it. It's done with your team, not handed to them, because a position the staff helped shape is one they'll actually stand behind.
A policy your governors can sign
A governing-body-ready AI policy, grounded in safeguarding and your own context. The kind you can put in front of a board and say: we consulted, here is the evidence, this is our approach. Not a template copied from another school and never used.
I've put an AI policy in front of my own school's board. It was ratified without a single objection.
Communication that reaches everyone
A clear, shared message for leadership, staff, students and parents about what AI is for and where the lines sit, so the whole school works from one understanding instead of a dozen private opinions.
A committee of your own people
We set up an internal group, your Champions, to own the work from the start. So it has a home inside the school from day one, and never depends on an outsider being in the building.
Stage 03 · Create
Training, real tools and handover: where the rules become real.
A policy on a shelf changes nothing. Create is where it turns into practice: the training, the tools, and the everyday judgment that lets your staff use AI well, long after we've gone.
Fluency and agency, not just compliance
Training pitched for leaders, senior school and junior school, until staff have the confidence and the judgment to know what to use, what not to, and when. The test stays simple: can a teacher use it the next morning?
Real tools, built with your staff
Actual workflows built alongside a curriculum or subject lead, in the room, not slides handed over. Your people leave with something they made, understand, and can run themselves.
Inside my own school, I built one of these with an experienced curriculum leader. Their team's careful mapping work became the input, and a complete AI-assisted draft came back for their review in minutes per subject.
Evidence it worked, then handover
We measure what actually changed against the baseline, so you have proof for your board and community. Then we hand the tools to your team and step back.
The method outlives the tools. ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini will all look different in a year, but the judgment, the policy and the habits built here don't depend on any one of them. And the point of a partnership isn't to make you dependent on us: a consultant hands you a framework and leaves on day one. We leave when your people no longer need us.
Alongside you, not above you, until you don't need us anymore.
"Vaughn has the AI education revolution in hand with some outstanding strategies and no BS. Highly recommend his approach."
A conversation, not a commitment.
Common questions
How the work actually runs
Is this a technology problem or a leadership problem?
It is a leadership and human problem, almost always. Schools reach for the right tool, the right policy, the right training, and it doesn't land, because it was never really about the technology. We start with people and clarity, and the tools follow.
How quickly can we see where our school stands?
Quickly, and inside your current term. The baseline is a short survey for each group with a fast turnaround, so you know where you stand before the term break rather than after it.
Do you just run a session and leave?
No. A single talk or workshop is a first taste of working together, not the offer itself. One-off sessions rarely change much. The work that actually shifts a school is a partnership over time, which is why we stay until your staff can run it without us.
Ways in
Three ways to work with us.
There's one obvious first step, and it doesn't wait on a budget cycle or a committee.
Start with a baseline Start here
Find out where your school actually stands, with the findings back before the end of term. No sign-off needed to begin the conversation, and it's yours to act on either way. It's how most partnerships start.
The twelve-month partnership
The full Listen, Learn, Create partnership. This is where the real change happens, and where a school moves from AI-overwhelmed to confident.
A workshop or a talk
A staff workshop, or a talk at your school or conference. Not the product, but often the first taste: the way a school gets a feel for the work before the partnership that does the real, lasting change.