AI readiness and implementation support for school and system leaders—helping your people build capability, use AI responsibly, and measure what changes.
Connected to global education research and leadership.
Policy matters.
Access to AI tools or isolated professional learning does not tell you whether your people are ready, whether meaningful practice is spreading, or whether AI is actually creating value.
See What AI Readiness RequiresImportant
foundation.
Still a gap.
Necessary steps.Not enough.
The AI Ready System Model
Build AI readiness across the connected areas of your school or education system.
These areas won't always move at the same pace.
Illustrative pathways, not assessment results. Five connected audiences move through Ignite, Implement and Infuse at different rates. Impact and evidence span the whole system; safety and responsible implementation underpin every stage. Select an audience to emphasize its pathway. Select it again or press Escape to clear emphasis.
Understand what’s changing, why it matters now, and know where to start.
Do things better, move from efficiency to effectiveness.
As AI becomes embedded, rethink what’s possible and do better things.
The engine behind the model
Readiness isn’t taught. It’s engineered, one well-designed task at a time.
A PaveEDU method developed by Giancarlo Brotto.
See how it works
Understand where meaningful AI practice is emerging, how broadly it is spreading, what evidence exists, and where your system may need attention next.
A snapshot of your current state across key areas.
Overall Readiness
3.2 DevelopingThe Scan looks at four key signals to help you move from activity to impact.
Different schools and systems are at different starting points.These five interconnected areas help you focus on what matters most right now — and keep moving forward.
Do our people understand why acting now matters — and are they willing to move?
Do we know what we’re trying to accomplish and how we’ll organize ourselves to get there?
Are we creating the right tasks, triggers and conditions to turn understanding into meaningful action?
Is meaningful practice spreading — or does it still depend on a few pioneers?
What is actually changing, how far is it spreading, and what evidence do we have that it matters?
AI Ready Schools
Too often, organizations introduce something new, run a PD session, and hope behaviours change afterward. They rarely see visible results.
Task Engineering takes a different approach. We design a sequence of tasks, triggers and experiences over time that make the right behaviours more likely—and increase the chances of achieving meaningful AI integration.
Coaching and AI-guided self-paced support — coming soon.
A smarter approach than a one-off PD session. We design the path to impact by working backwards from the outcome, then bring it to life over time.
Design backward
Activate forward
Better tasks. Real behaviours. Stronger results.
“It's not about doing more. It's about designing what works.”
Featured implementation challenge
Giancarlo has led groups where more than half of participants began hesitant or reluctant about AI. He meets that hesitation directly, then measures the shift before and immediately after a 60- or 90-minute session.
Observed in groups Giancarlo has led. In some, hesitation fell to around 10%. Immediate participant-reported shift; results vary.
Giancarlo's Ignite AI method meets concerns directly, builds understanding through practical examples, sparks curiosity and helps people choose a responsible first step. A before-and-after pulse gives leaders evidence of the immediate change and a starting point for what comes next.
Bring an Ignite AI session to your systemTHE METHOD IN MOTION
Different parts of your system are at different stages. Select a group to see what they need now—and how AI Ready Schools can help them move forward.
This whole-system approach is informed by four years of internal data and multiple literature reviews of published research syntheses.
When staff confidence and practice vary from classroom to classroom, leaders need a clear way to move everyone forward.
Understand what AI is changing for learning, what needs attention now, and what your staff need from you to move forward.
Build staff capability, clear expectations and practical routines so good practice happens across classrooms—not just with a few enthusiastic educators.
Use evidence to spread strong practice, remove barriers, rethink old assumptions, and prepare your school for what AI now makes possible.
Cross-functional leadership. Shared purpose. Real progress for every learner.
A shared vision across every group.
Turn insight into aligned plans.
Give people what they need to take action.
Track progress and learn together.
Evidence of movement
AI readiness is not measured by how many sessions happen. We look for evidence that
people think differently, act differently and continue moving the work forward.
Educators and senior school leaders explored what AI means for their own practice, their students and the direction of the division.
senior school leaders identified a concrete action they could take within the next two weeks.
Pre-session → Post-session educator respondents identifying division-wide adaptation to an AI-shaped world as an immediate priority.
“I would never use AI… now I will start to incorporate it into my teaching.”
School districts from across Vermont brought leadership teams that included their superintendent, technology leader and curriculum leader to build shared AI capacity and move implementation forward together.
At the opening session, every district leader who completed the action exercise identified something they would do within the next 24–48 hours.
“The concrete ideas were most helpful. They gave me a foothold to begin working from.”
of final-session respondents rated the year of learning together a 4 or 5 out of 5 for helping their district make progress with AI implementation.
AI readiness moved beyond a single audience and became a conversation across the system.
of staff respondents reported a strong intention to take at least one concrete next step using AI to improve how they work.
bringing system staff, student cohorts, families and caregivers into the conversation about what responsible AI readiness requires.
The work did not stop with educators. It reached across the school community.
Preparing learners for an AI-shaped world means strengthening the transferable skills they will continue to need.
Pre-session → Post-session respondents who saw developing transferable skills as an important or guiding framework for learning.
of 251 educator respondents reported they were likely or very likely to intentionally change at least one practice in the following month to strengthen transferable skills.
ReadySchoolsWith the right choicesGiancarlo Brotto
and the right mindset,
we can do more than survive
a world shaped by AI.
We can thrive in it.
The person behind the work
For more than 25 years, Giancarlo has worked across classrooms, school systems, governments and international networks—connecting what is changing in the world with what leaders can actually do next.
AI in Education Interdisciplinary Research Hub
Global expert & stakeholder communityFormer classroom educator with lived understanding of teaching and learning.
Uses learning science, CBAM, diffusion research and implementation science to move people into action.
More than a decade exploring AI, work, skills and system change—well before ChatGPT.
Insights & Resources
Ideas, research and practical tools to help school and system leaders understand what is changing — and decide what to do next.
Insight
More tools and training won’t create impact if people are reluctant to engage. Start by understanding how much reluctance exists, what’s driving it, and what needs to change.
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Research + Perspective
What global research says schools should prepare for, respond to and protect against — and why effective implementation also requires purpose.
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Practical Guide
A practical guide for leaders who want to move beyond AI experimentation and focus their people, priorities and next steps.
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Whether you’re trying to build urgency, create direction, strengthen capability or understand your impact, we can help you identify the right next step.
For school and system leaders who want help thinking through where they are, what is getting in the way, and what to do next.
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