Kia ora,
The AI Powered Educator Programme is led by Dr Craig Hansen, New Zealand's leading AI for Education trainer. It's built for classroom teachers across the curriculum — from new entrants to senior secondary — and for wherever you're starting from. Novice or expert, everyone has a lot to gain.
Maybe you've never opened an AI tool. Maybe you use one every day — making storybooks, levelling texts, drafting newsletters, translating messages for whānau. Either way, you'll spend 2027 alongside teachers from around the motu, trying things in your own classroom and sharing what works.
After training hundreds of educators at our AI breakfasts, teacher-only days and cluster meetings, we always ask how much time the AI strategies and tools we've shared are saving them. When classroom teachers put a number on it, the typical answer is 5 hours a week — around 25 days across a 40-week school year, much of it time that used to go on planning, resources and admin.
Learn live, together — online and in person
A rhythm of learning that fits around your teaching week, not on top of it.
- Live sessions with Dr Craig Hansen and team on a Wednesday evening, 7:00–8:00pm, every third week of Terms 1–3 — so they never cut into your teaching day
- Every session recorded, so you can catch up whenever suits you
- One in-person AI Breakfast in your region in Term 2 — Whangārei, Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga, Wellington, Blenheim, Christchurch or Dunedin
- A community of educators across the curriculum, sharing what's working in their classrooms
- Practical ideas and prompts you can use in class the next morning
An NZQA-accredited micro-credential, built around your classroom
Choose the pathway that matches where you're at. You'll work on real planning, resources and tasks from your own teaching, not theory for its own sake.
Tap a pathway to preview your pick and see where to find the full course details. You confirm it when you enrol.
Ten themes, built around a teacher's real week
We've drawn together hundreds of ways teachers are using AI and grouped them into ten themes. Each live session takes one theme and turns it into something you can use straight away. Tap a theme to see what you'll learn.
Who the programme is for
One programme, one community, whatever you teach.
Just getting started? We start with the foundations — how to prompt well, what to keep private, and how to check what AI gives you.
Already using AI every day? Go further with custom assistants, reusable workflows and the Advanced Applications pathway.
Any learning area, any year level. English, maths, science, the arts, languages, technology and more — primary, intermediate, secondary and kura.
What classroom teachers are telling us
See what other classroom teachers are saying about Dr Craig's trainingLearning intentions, success criteria (I loved that) and prompting were my highlights. I'm going to save 10 hours a week because of what I learned today.
At least a whole week of my school break used to go on term planning. AI has given me my life back.
I have learnt so much. My knowledge was limited, but now I feel more confident in what I am doing. I loved how TeachAid works for the classroom, and I think these simple tools will really lighten our load.
It was an awesome session! Taking these ideas back to my colleagues is going to make planning so much simpler. AI is a game-changer for planning, differentiation and bridging the gap for diverse learners. It's given me whole weekends back!
My stand-out takeaways were using Gemini to create storybooks and learning stories for students, and the Tell-It framework: tell it who it is, what you want, and how you like it.
I had an awesome morning and learnt a lot. I'm excited to go back to my school and share this knowledge. Thank you for carefully explaining everything and answering questions so clearly.
One price for the full year. Every live session, your regional AI Breakfast, your micro-credential and the community — delivered exclusively by Summit Institute.
- Live sessions with Dr Craig Hansen and team, Wednesdays 7:00–8:00pm, all recorded
- One NZQA micro-credential: Fundamentals or Advanced Applications
- One in-person AI Breakfast in your region, Term 2
- All ten learning themes, from foundations to workload
- A community of educators across the curriculum
- Ideas you can use in class the next morning
Is your principal enrolled? The AI Powered Principal Programme runs alongside this one, so your school's leaders and teachers can grow together.
Visit the AI Powered Principal Programme →Step into 2027 with confidence in your classroom.
Join teachers from across Aotearoa learning to use AI well — for their workload, their ākonga and their whānau.
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