I would be happy to adapt sessions to your needs, but I currently offer PD for teachers and school leaders in two areas:

(1) Designing Education for Multiperspectivity (2) What are we talking about when we talk about AI

For publicly funded schools, the first professional development sessions will always be free.

Topic 1: Designing Education for Multiperspectivity

Did you know that the Irish language has 32 words for field? What about that all of Homer’s work is absent of the colour blue, leading some scholars to speculate as to whether ancient Greeks might effectively be colour blind to blue? Language and culture shape how we see the world, but too often our classroom designs fail to support our students’ linguistic and cultural backgrounds. But how can educational designs encourage inclusion without creating more work for already overwhelmed educators? 

This workshop from an educational researcher and teacher trainer explores how design thinking, emerging AI tools, and principles of global citizenship education can help us create learning environments that recognise students’ multiple ways of seeing the world. Through small design choices, we can not only create classrooms that are inclusive, but we can improve teaching and learning by meeting young people where they are and inspiring them to question who they want to become. 

Ultimately, this workshop argues that inclusion is less about adding more to our practice and more about seeing differently, recognising, as Hannah Arendt reminds us, the plurality of perspectives that make our world both challenging and full of possibility. Through straightforward pedagogical strategies that any educator can adopt, this workshop will invite us to imagine classrooms where every student’s language, culture, and lived experience becomes part of the learning design itself. 

This session is designed for educators and school leaders who want to:

• Design learning for pluralism, multiperspectivity, and belonging
• Integrate AI ethically and pedagogically into teaching practice
• Strengthen global citizenship and democratic engagement
• Align curriculum design with justice, sustainability, and planetary responsibility
• Move from vision statements to practical classroom transformation

Blending educational theory, design thinking, and classroom application, this session supports schools in building forms of education that prepare learners not just to navigate complexity — but to act responsibly within it.

Topic 2: What are we talking about when we talk about AI

What are we talking about when we talk about AI? is a lively, research‑informed professional learning experience that helps secondary educators move beyond hype to a grounded, critical and creative engagement with AI in schools.

This interactive professional development workshop introduces teachers and school leaders to the foundations of Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED), combining practical tools with critical reflection on ethics, equity and sustainability. Participants explore what AI actually is (and is not), how it already shapes classroom practice and school governance, and how datafication reconfigures teaching and learning. Through hands‑on activities, teachers build and test simple machine‑learning models, examine real AI tools for feedback, planning and language support, and explore the opportunities and risks these systems pose for academic integrity, student wellbeing and professional judgement.​

By the end of the session, participants leave with a shared vocabulary for talking about AI, concrete strategies for using it responsibly with students, and a roadmap for ongoing whole‑school conversations about AI and the futures of education.