Learning systems · educational technology · practical AI

Designing towards the next education system.

My work draws on more than twenty years as an educator, curriculum designer, and school leader across unusually varied settings. In recent years, that journey has led me into building educational technology and AI-enabled systems.

Gareth Manning portrait

20+ years in education

Teaching experience across 27 countries

Former Co-Principal & Lead Designer

ISTE / ASCD Instructional Leader

Live educational products

165 open-source agent skills

Three kinds of work

Selected work.

Tools, learning systems, and professional capability — different expressions of the same problem: turning worthwhile ideas into practice people can sustain.

Build tools

Design systems

Develop people

Professional learning · pilot in development

Practical AI capability, built through real work.

A cohort-based sprint for educators: build dependable workflows, test them against real professional tasks, and preserve human judgement.

Explore the pilot direction →

Exploratory work

Ideas & public work

Invited talks

The Purpose Hub

invited talk on cultivating pro-planetary purpose, convened by Heather Malin (former Director, Stanford Center on Adolescence) · Recording →

2024

UNESCO MGIEP, The Blue Dot

guest editor, Issue 13 “Reimagining Education”; invited panelist on the future of schools · Issue 13 →

2021

IIT Gandhinagar, Brain Awareness Week

panelist, “Neuroscience, Technology and Education”, with Dr Grégoire Borst (University of Paris) and Dr Nandini Chatterjee Singh (UNESCO MGIEP) · Event page (archived) →

2021

Education Forum Sri Lanka

panelist, Policy Dialogue #16 on emergency preparedness of schools · Dialogue & recording →

2021

Fieldwork

The journeyEight chapters across 27 countries — 2003 to 2026.
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Working on a difficult problem in education or AI? I’d like to hear about it.