Impact/Vibe Coding Collective
A cohort of educators who stopped consuming AI and started building with it
A four-week cohort, run twice, where teachers and leaders built working AI tools for their own classrooms: live build sessions, recordings and workbooks, and a community carrying it between sessions.
Most educators have now seen AI demonstrated. Far fewer have built something with it: a working tool, made by them, that solves a problem in their own classroom. The Vibe Coding Collective was built to close that gap.
It ran as a four-week cohort, twice. Live build sessions each week, recordings and workbooks in between, and a group of educators sharing what they made and what broke. Not a course about AI. A room where people built things.
From “no idea” to building websites and games
One member’s whole arc is on record, in his own words. Jack joined having never considered that he could build anything with AI. By the end he was creating working websites and games. Watch the conversation:
What participants said
Gideon Williams, a former Head of Digital Learning who joined the cohort, described it like this: “What you do have is a pretty special model that is hard to replicate. You get the best from the skool system and combine it with f2f practice. We don’t have enough models that [look] at a CPD approach over a period of time, building as we go.”
His own confidence across the cohort moved from 7 to 10, and his read on the experience went to the heart of how I work: “[It’s] a wonderful non-judgemental and confidence giving approach.”
His advice for schools considering it: “I would recommend two people from a school joining together - that would be hugely powerful.” That instinct, that this works best as a shared capability rather than a lone enthusiast’s hobby, is the same reason a Littlejohns partnership builds internal Champions rather than training individuals in isolation.
Why it matters for a school
Building is the deepest form of fluency. A teacher who has built a working tool understands what AI can and can’t do in a way no demonstration can teach, and that judgment is what schools actually need in the room when decisions get made. The cohort model, over weeks with live support, is how the Create stage of a partnership runs.
One tactical idea a week on AI in schools: the Littlejohns Letter.
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