Guides — TEN3

How to use them

These are guides, not policies.

We do not hand a school a document to adopt. Each guide walks through the decisions in order, gives wording you can take or leave, and is honest about what only you can decide.

Every entry is self-contained, so a staff meeting can take one at a sitting and settle it before moving on. The wording in each copy box is deliberately free of any one country's law, so that a school anywhere is no worse off for using it — where a legal question matters, it is named in matters to think through rather than buried in text you might paste.

Build Your Own AI Policy

Eight decisions · for a whole school

Written to faculty rather than to students, because a policy aimed at students is enforcement and a policy aimed at teachers is formation. It works through what counts as a student's own work, when use must be declared, what to set now that the machine can do the old assignment, students who have no access, what may be put into it, how students check what it tells them, and what happens when the policy is broken.

Start here if your school is being asked for an AI policy and does not want to copy someone else's. The argument behind it is set out separately in Why Build One, linked from the guide itself.

Build a Wisdom Centre

Nine decisions · for a department

A Wisdom Centre is a professional production environment inside a department, where students do real supervised work for people outside the room and are assessed by explaining it rather than by handing it in. It covers what such a room is, what work it takes on, who supervises it, how the week is shaped, how students are assessed by listening, how it fits the courses you already have, how breadth is made to count, how the Word stays in the rhythm, and what all that sharpened sight is aimed at.

Start here if you run a department and want students to graduate with judgment rather than with a transcript.

The Future of Education Soon

In writing

Where all of this is going, and why the change is not a disruption to be survived. The two guides above each answer one question; this is the ground they both stand on.

Students Under Eighteen Soon

In writing

Bringing younger students into real work: what an early start is for, and the employment law, working papers and contract questions that come with it. Deliberately left out of the Wisdom Centre guide, because the answers are local and the guide is not.

More to come

The guides stay open.

Each one is worked on as schools use it and tell us where it failed them. If you reach a decision a guide does not cover, that is the most useful thing you can send us.

If you are waiting on one of the two above, say so. Which one people ask for is how we decide what gets written next, and there is no other signal — so a one-line message genuinely moves it up the list.