Speaking
What I talk about when I'm on a stage or in a staffroom, and where I'll be next. Practical, evidence-led, and built so the people in the room can use it the next morning.
The talks
Three sessions, all road-tested. Every one of them comes out of work actually delivered in real schools, including my own.
Leadership teams, boards, heads of school
The evidence-first leadership talk. Why AI in schools is a sequencing problem rather than a technology problem, what a four-group baseline reveals that intuition misses, and the five steps in the order that actually works. Leaders leave with the self-assessment scale and a clear picture of their own next step.
What the room leaves with: The AI Readiness Scorecard, on paper, for the whole room.
Whole staff, teachers, conference audiences
The hands-on session. What changes when teachers and students stop just prompting AI and start building with it: real tools, made by educators, that solve the problems in their own classrooms. Built from the work I run inside my own school every week, including what flopped.
What the room leaves with: A tool every attendee has started building before they leave the room.
Time-poor staff, technology teams, leadership
The capacity talk. Most schools aren't unwilling, they're under-resourced: nobody has the hours to review every tool, every claim, every release. A practical way to stop drowning in tool-by-tool decisions, and to put the capacity you do have on the step that matters.
What the room leaves with: A decision framework the school can run without an AI specialist on staff.
In the room
Around a hundred teachers in a single whole-staff session. Forty deputy principals at the ISER DP Conference, in 2023 and again in 2025. Conference audiences in Singapore, and a lot of ordinary weeks running this work with my own staff.
What doesn't change is the shape of it. Hands on keyboards rather than a lecture, the awkward questions taken seriously, and the parts of my own work that flopped left in.
"Vaughn has the AI education revolution in hand with some outstanding strategies and no BS. Highly recommend his approach."
Why it lands
I'm a Director of Technology at an IB World School and a former deputy principal, so the session is built by someone who still carries a school's realities: the safeguarding questions, the staff who are nervous, the board that wants answers. The test for every session is the same one I use with my own staff: can they use it tomorrow? One teacher's written feedback after a whole-staff session said exactly that.
Nothing is recycled, either. The same talk sounds different in a staffroom on a Tuesday afternoon and on a conference stage, because the room is different and pretending otherwise wastes everyone's time.
Where you can catch me next