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AI PLG's - Professional Learning Groups

Created for Educators to provide Purposeful and Practical Leadership

Our AI Professional Learning Groups (PLGs) were developed by an experienced educator to provide practical support for school leaders in navigating artificial intelligence. These PLGs directly address the needs of educators, identified through extensive consultation, by offering time-saving strategies, safe tools, and clear guidance on AI integration within the New Zealand education context. The aim is to empower leaders with community, clarity, and confidence to purposefully implement AI and shape the future of education in their schools.

 

 

AI in Educational Leadership PLG's

You might be just dabbling in AI—or maybe you’ve started experimenting here and there.

This PLG is designed to meet you where you’re at and help you use AI to delegate tasks, streamline the busywork, and free up time for what matters most:

Leading People

You’ll be part of a supportive network of school leaders learning how to shape AI’s role in education—together.

Walk away with practical tools, strategic support, and guidance to lead confidently in the age of AI.

Three separate groups to choose from

  • Principals
  • APDPs
  • Digital Leads

What to expect

This PLG will guide you through practical, real-world uses of AI to lighten your admin load and strengthen your leadership.

  • 🧠 Build confident AI leadership — demystify the tools, learn the language, and lead with clarity in a time of rapid change
  • ⏳ Save time and reduce admin — use prompting frameworks and safe tools to streamline everyday tasks and communications
  • 📈 Strengthen school strategy — align AI with strategic goals, self-review, planning, and professional learning
  • 🤝 Support staff and student success — explore how AI can boost engagement, equity, and culture across your kura
  • 🛠 Get hands-on with practical tools — walk away with templates, policies, workflows, and prompt libraries ready to use
  • 🌐 Stay connected and future-ready — access regular updates, share resources, and grow alongside a national network of leaders

What's included

  • ✅ 4 live online workshops (1 per term)
  • ✅ In-person Term 2 meet and greet (optional – Auckland)
  • ✅ Full day In person Summit | January ‘26
  • ✅ Tailored prompts & planning tools
  • ✅ AI tools demo:
  • ChatGPT, NotebookLM, Gemini & Copilot
  • ✅ Creating Gems, Notebooks specific to your context
  • ✅ Access to NZ-specific templates & policies
  • ✅ Network of AI-driven school leaders across Aotearoa through SLACK channel, questions answered in seconds!

 

Investment over Months - starts July 2025!

  • Principals PLG | $895 pp
  • APDPs PLG | $595 pp
  • DT Leads PLG | $395 pp
  • Principal & APDP Package | $1295 per school (covers one principal and one APDP)
  • Principal & DT Lead Package | $1195 per school (covers one principal and one Digital Lead)
  • Principal, APDP & DT Lead Package | $1395 per school (covers one principal, one APDP, and one DT Lead)

 

Why these AI PLG's?

Created by educators, for educators — with purpose and practicality at the core.

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I’m Bex Rose — an experienced school leader, AI consultant, and passionate advocate for using technology to enhance, not overwhelm, our education system. After more than 20 years in the classroom and in leadership, I deeply understand the complexity, pressure, and potential of our schools.

Over the past 9 months, I’ve delivered AI Summits across Aotearoa, connecting with nearly 1,000 educators — from Kerikeri to Christchurch — listening to what’s really needed:
✨ Time-saving strategies
✨ Safe, practical tools
✨ Clear direction on how AI fits into the NZ education context
✨ And above all — leadership with integrity, clarity, and heart

These PLGs were born from those conversations.

They’re designed to create space for school leaders to:

  • Learn together
  • Trial tools with support
  • Build their school’s capability
  • Stay accountable to actually using what they learn

Whether you're a principal, AP/DP, or digital lead — you don’t have to do this alone. These groups give you the community, clarity, and confidence to lead AI in a way that’s right for your kura.

Let’s shape the future of education — one purposeful decision at a time.

Three Groups to Choose From

Our Principal PLG will empower leaders to confidently integrate AI by demystifying tools and aligning them with strategic goals for improved planning and administration, while the AP/DPs PLG will focus on practical AI applications to streamline daily tasks and enhance support for staff and students. Simultaneously, the Digital Leads PLG will provide hands-on experience with AI tools and resources, ensuring they can effectively guide their schools through technological advancements, with all three groups benefiting from a national network for ongoing support and future readiness.

 

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👑 Principals PLG: Leading AI Strategically in Aotearoa

Lead with Clarity. Empower with Confidence.

AI is here—are you ready to lead it with purpose?

This Professional Learning Group (PLG) is designed specifically for principals looking to stay ahead of the curve. Join a national network of school leaders exploring how to strategically implement AI in Aotearoa schools, save time, strengthen strategy, and prepare staff and students for the future.

🧠 What You’ll Learn

Across three terms, we’ll explore practical, leadership-focused ways to bring AI into your school safely and purposefully:

💡 Alongside AI tools and planning strategies, you'll gain bite-sized leadership nuggets to support change management through the current climate of transformation in education.

Context, Strategy & Time-Saving

  • Meet and Greet (Auckland – optional): Connect with fellow principals and set the tone for the year

  • Build solid AI foundations—prompting frameworks, safe tools, and effective use cases

  • Use AI for strategic planning, self-review, parent comms, and daily task streamlining

 Insights & Leadership

  • Use AI to support attendance, engagement, and student data stories

  • Learn how AI can support inclusive leadership, coaching, and culture-building

 Schoolwide Change & Adoption

    • Lead AI rollout with confidence—staff PLD, classroom-ready examples, and policy development

    • Create your AI adoption plan and prepare to share your journey

🔮 What’s Coming Up

  • 🎉 AI Meet & Greet – Term 2 (Auckland, optional)
  • 🚀 AI Summit – January 2026 (Date TBC)
  • A full-day national event where you'll showcase your progress, learn from other leaders, and explore what’s next.

🌀 Why Join?

    • 👥 Connect with like-minded principals across Aotearoa

    • 📊 Lead with real-time tools to reduce admin and improve outcomes

    • 📚 Learn in a safe space, with space to adapt based on your needs

    • ✅ Leave with a working AI adoption plan and resources for staff

🤝 AP/DPs PLG: Amplifying Leadership with AI

Support Your Principal. Empower Your Teams. Drive AI from the Middle.

You’re the engine room of your school – leading people, solving problems, and driving change behind the scenes. This Professional Learning Group (PLG) is designed specifically for assistant and deputy principals who want to explore how AI can support leadership, streamline systems, and make more time for what matters most: your people.

🧠 What You’ll Learn

This PLG will focus on the real, practical ways you can integrate AI into the leadership work you do every day — with space to adapt as your needs evolve.

💡 Alongside tools and systems, you’ll gain bite-sized leadership insights to help you navigate change and uncertainty with confidence and clarity.

We’ll explore:

  • Using AI to reduce workload, streamline routines, and stay strategic in the chaos

  • Prompting frameworks and the safest, most effective tools for schools

  • Leveraging AI to support student engagement, attendance, and data storytelling

  • Enhancing pastoral tracking, behaviour systems, and communication

  • Coaching with AI: staff development, inclusive leadership, and culture-building

  • Leading AI implementation, from staff PLD to policy and rollout

  • Drafting a school AI plan that supports your leadership goals and wider school strategy

🔮 What’s Coming Up

  • 🎉 AI Meet & Greet – Auckland (optional)
  • 🚀 AI Summit – January 2026 (Date TBC)
  • A national event where you’ll connect with peers, share impact, and gain fresh insights.

🌀 Why Join?

  • 🔍 Learn how to apply AI to your day-to-day operational leadership

  • 🧰 Get ready-made tools for planning, coaching, data, and comms

  • 🤝 Connect with a network of middle leaders navigating similar challenges

  • 📘 Leave with an AI support plan and tools to lead change with confidence

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💻 Digital Leads PLG: Driving Practical AI Integration in Schools

From Curious to Confident – Lead AI Where It Matters Most

As the go-to person for digital innovation in your school, you're already exploring tools, supporting staff, and solving tech challenges. This Professional Learning Group (PLG) is designed specifically for digital leads and tech-savvy educators who want to confidently lead the next wave of change: AI in education.

🧠 What You’ll Learn

This PLG is all about practical implementation — what works, what’s safe, and how to bring others along with you.

💡 Alongside tools and workflows, you’ll gain change leadership insights to help you guide your staff through this evolving digital space with clarity and confidence.

We’ll explore:

  • Evaluating and introducing safe, school-ready AI tools

  • Prompting frameworks to support your staff’s teaching, admin, and planning

  • Building AI capability across your school in a way that sticks

  • Creating templates, systems, and models to streamline teacher workflows

  • Using AI for troubleshooting, device management, and content creation

  • Leading from the middle – influencing policy, strategy, and schoolwide readiness

  • Staying ahead of AI updates and sharing tools and wins with your team

🔮 What’s Coming Up

  • 🎉 AI Meet & Greet – Auckland (optional)
  • 🚀 AI Summit – January 2026 (Date TBC)
  • Showcase tools, share what’s working, and explore what’s next with digital leaders from across the motu.

🌀 Why Join?

  • 🧠 Deepen your knowledge of AI tools and tech leadership

  • 🔧 Build systems and templates your staff will actually use

  • 🌐 Connect with a national network of digital leads and innovators

  • 📈 Grow your influence on policy, direction, and strategy in your kura

 

The Not so Fine Print

Our PLG's require a minimum number of delegates to proceed in its intended physical format. Should this minimum not be met, the event may be transitioned to an alternative format to ensure all registered participants can access the content, as well as maintain the workshop’s quality and interactive nature. The decision to switch to an alternative format will be communicated promptly to all registrants. We appreciate your understanding and flexibility.

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