Leading With AI: Enhancing Teaching and Learning

AI is reshaping classroom practice, offering new ways to strengthen planning, personalise learning and support diverse students. This workshop gives you practical guidance, grounded examples and safe, creative approaches to help you use AI effectively and confidently in your teaching.

You’ll explore insights from Ann Palmer’s Leading with AI book and podcast series and hear directly from a school-based practitioner using AI to enhance and adapt teaching, personalise learning, and improve student progress.

By taking part in this workshop, you will:

• Strengthen lesson planning using AI
• Personalise learning and adapt teaching for diverse learners
• Use AI to understand and monitor student progress
• Apply ethical and inclusive approaches in classroom AI use
• Explore strategies to support students with SEND
• Identify practical next steps for your teaching or team

How the workshop works

This two hour online workshop includes:

Introduction and Reflection
Reflect on how you currently use AI and identify where it can add value to teaching and learning.

AI in Practice: Opportunities and Challenges
Explore real classroom examples of AI in action. Discuss what works, what to avoid, and the ethical considerations.

Practical Applications: Planning, Adapting Teaching and Extending Learning
Learn how AI can support lesson planning, adapt teaching for diverse learners, personalise learning, and extend learning beyond the classroom.

Strategy and Capacity Building
Consider the training, resources and support needed to use AI responsibly while managing workload. Identify one or two steps to trial in your own practice or school.

School Perspective: AI in Action
Hear from a school based practitioner on how AI is enhancing and adapting teaching, supporting learners and reducing workload.

Wrap Up
Leave with key takeaways and tools to help you develop your AI practice back in school.

Who the workshop is for:

Classroom teachers, subject leads, and those responsible for leading teaching, learning, curriculum, and inclusion – anyone seeking practical ways to use AI in the classroom.

No technical expertise is required — just curiosity and a desire to strengthen teaching and learning through effective use of AI.

Key Speaker

Ann Palmer FCCT, CEO – Fig Tree International Ltd

Ann Palmer is a highly accomplished and widely respected leader, consultant, and executive coach whose career spans more than 35 years across the education, corporate, and non-profit sectors, both in the UK and internationally. Her impact is visible across schools, universities, businesses, and government bodies, where her leadership has consistently driven innovation, inclusion, and strategic transformation.

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What participants said about Ann Palmer’s previous workshop with SSAT:

• “Thank you so much for this session — lots of ideas and great conversations.”
• “Very useful. I now have a better idea of how to start tackling AI — and I’ve bought the book!”
• “Really helpful… I feel more confident to proceed.”
• “Very informative and inspiring.”

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