Adam Sturdee

BusinessCloud has published a profile of the work we are doing at STAR21 as part of its EdTech Founders series. You can read it here: https://businesscloud.co.uk/news/meet-the-assistant-head-building-a-coaching-platform-for-teachers/ Interviews are a useful discipline. A journalist asks you to explain, in plain terms and to a general audience, what you are doing and why, and you discover quite quickly which parts of your thinking are solid and which you have been getting away with. Most of...

On 9 September I'm speaking at the SecEd and Headteacher Update AI in Schools conference on why build versus buy is rarely a binary choice. Here's what I'll cover, and the nine questions I'd put to any AI tool before a school commits.

This year I led the writing of a five-year digital strategy for the secondary school where I work. I want to share the process, because the way we built it changed my view of what a school strategy document can be. We used AI throughout. Not to invent the strategy for us, but as a research assistant, drafting partner, critical friend and institutional memory. The result is a strategy that is more evidence-based, more coherent and dramatically easier to keep up to date than anything I could...