Speaking
Keynotes, whole-staff professional development (PD/CPD) and leadership briefings on AI in schools, from someone leading this work inside a school right now. Practical, evidence-led, and built so your people can use it the next morning.
Speaking is one part of Littlejohns, an educator-led practice that partners with schools on AI beyond the talk. See the partnership
The talks
Every talk comes from work actually delivered in real schools, including my own. Each can run as a keynote, a workshop, or both.
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.
The takeaway: 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.
The takeaway: 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.
The takeaway: A decision framework the school can run without an AI specialist on staff.
Formats
AI-specific and education-sector conferences. EDUtech Asia 2026 (Singapore) confirmed.
Hands-on, on your INSET day, PD day or twilight. The brief is always the same: nobody leaves with theory.
A focused session for your SLT or board: where schools actually are with AI, and the sequence that works.
"Vaughn has the AI education revolution in hand with some outstanding strategies and no BS. Highly recommend his approach."
Where you can catch me next
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.
Sessions are tailored to your context, not recycled. Tell me the room, the time, and what your people are carrying, and I'll shape it to that.
If we met at a conference
The talk is the short version. I work with schools directly: baselines, staff PD and a year-long partnership, alongside the work I lead inside my own school. If something in the session sounded like your school, the quickest way to test it is a conversation. If you'd rather start on paper, the scorecard takes two minutes.
Book
Tell me the event, the audience, and the date. I'll come back within two working days.
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