Workflows that save time.
Step-by-step routines for planning, marking, feedback and reports, with the prompts included.
For UK teachers
Practical AI for
UK classrooms.
Practical AI and edtech for UK teachers. Tools, workflows and what actually saves time, done safely.
What you’ll get
Less hype.
More time back.
Short, specific write-ups you can use the same week. Each one starts with the job in front of you, not the tool.
Safety in plain English.
Data protection, safeguarding and the current DfE and JCQ guidance, explained for the classroom.
Honest notes on tools.
AI and wider edtech: what a tool does well, where it falls short and what to check first.
How it’s written
Calm, careful
and useful.
Practical over theoretical.
Every piece starts with a real task from a school week and ends with something you can try.
Safe over shiny.
Pupil data, safeguarding and assessment rules come first, before any tool or shortcut.
Your judgement, always.
AI drafts; you decide. Nothing here replaces professional judgement or your school’s policies.
About
From the classroom
to the code.
I’m Rizvan Ali. I spent eight years teaching maths and science in UK secondary schools, and I now work as a senior AI engineer.
Most of what I read about AI in education is either excitement about tools that will “transform” everything, or warnings that leave teachers unsure whether to touch it at all. Neither helps on a Tuesday evening with thirty books to mark. The EdTech Report sits in between.
- Taught
- Maths and science
- For
- Eight years
- Now
- Senior AI engineer
Starter guides
Start here.
Four short guides.
The basics, in the order worth reading them. Each one takes a few minutes and ends with something to try this week.
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01
The one rule before AI touches your schoolwork.
What pupil data an AI tool may see, and what the DfE guidance means for a classroom teacher.
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02
Lesson planning with AI: first drafts only.
A prompt to try, a template worth saving and the four checks to make before anything reaches your class.
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03
Whole-class feedback with AI.
Where AI helps with marking, where it doesn’t, and a four-step workflow for your next set of books.
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04
Report writing without sharing pupil data.
A workflow that keeps pupil names out of the tool entirely. Faster drafts, same standards.