Helping education respond wisely to the age of AI.
The Center for AI in Education supports schools, educators, leaders, students, and families as they navigate one of the most important educational transformations of our time. Its work brings together ethical clarity, practical tools, professional learning, and a deeply human view of what education must protect, strengthen, and reimagine in the age of artificial intelligence.
Our purpose
We help educational communities move beyond scattered tools and isolated experiments toward coherent, responsible, and pedagogically meaningful uses of AI.
Why we exist
AI is changing how people learn, create, communicate, work, and make decisions. Schools need more than technical enthusiasm: they need judgment, direction, safeguards, imagination, and a shared language for responsible innovation. The Center was created to help education respond with depth rather than haste, and with human purpose rather than technological dependency.
Educationally grounded
We begin with learning, development, relationships, purpose, and the real work of schools.
Ethically responsible
We help schools think through privacy, fairness, wellbeing, transparency, accountability, and human agency.
Practically useful
We create frameworks, standards, tools, activities, and professional learning experiences that can be used in real educational settings.
What we do
The Center develops resources and learning experiences that help schools integrate AI with coherence, responsibility, and educational purpose.
Advisory Council
The Advisory Council brings together distinguished educators, leaders, researchers, and innovators whose experience and perspective help strengthen the Center’s work. The Council serves in an advisory capacity, helping the Center remain ethically grounded, internationally informed, educationally meaningful, and useful for real schools.
Sofia Hughes
International Education LeadershipSofia Hughes is an experienced educational leader whose work has focused on international education, school improvement, professional collaboration, and leadership development across Latin America and beyond. Based in Buenos Aires, she has held senior leadership roles in several schools and currently serves as Executive Officer of LAHC, the Latin American Heads Conference. She is also Executive Secretary of the International Confederation of Principals, a global network of principal associations from more than 20 countries. Through these roles, Hughes brings to the Center a broad international perspective on school leadership, institutional development, professional trust, and the future of education.
Richard Gilby
School Leadership, Curriculum and SustainabilityRichard Gilby is an international educator and school leader whose career has taken him across Greece, Egypt, Mexico, and Latin America. He has served in senior school leadership roles, founded a school in rural Mexico, and currently serves as Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean at Cambridge University Press & Assessment. Gilby is also recognized as an International Climate Change Education Ambassador, advocating for the integration of sustainability and climate change education across the curriculum. His work combines school leadership, curriculum development, international education, and student voice, bringing to the Center a strong commitment to preparing young people for a changing world.
Alejandro Archundia
Teacher Development and Educational InnovationAlejandro Archundia is a Mexican educator, facilitator, writer, and learning experience designer with extensive experience helping teachers and schools integrate emerging pedagogies and educational technologies. Drawing on his background in psychology, creativity, facilitation, and performance, he designs professional learning experiences that are practical, engaging, and deeply human. Associated with Soluciones Exa / Sensei Learning and known through his public educational identity, Educateko, he brings together storytelling, humor, technology, and pedagogy. His contribution to the Center lies in connecting educational innovation with teacher development, creativity, and meaningful classroom practice.
Peter Foster
Student Wellbeing, Innovation and Future-Focused EducationPeter Foster is an Australian educator and school leader with more than thirty years of experience across Prep to Year 12 education. His work has combined teaching, educational leadership, boys’ education, student wellbeing, innovation, and future-focused learning. He has served as Principal of Hymba Yumba Independent School and currently serves as Principal of The Industry School in Brisbane, a deliberately different senior school model connecting schooling with industry pathways, trade qualifications, apprenticeships, traineeships, and real-world learning. Foster brings to the Center a strong commitment to helping young people find purpose, confidence, and pathways beyond school.
Patricia Glenn
Leadership Development and Organizational TransformationPatricia Glenn is a Canadian leader, facilitator, and learning professional with extensive experience in organizational development, business operations, leadership growth, and human-centered transformation. Her professional background includes more than fifteen years of executive experience in business development and operations, as well as leadership work with nonprofit organizations in Calgary. She currently serves as Partner and Learning Leader at The NEXT Institute, supporting organizations and leaders across North America. Her contribution to the Center brings a strong focus on disciplined leadership, organizational learning, decision-making, and sustainable institutional change.
Dr. Juan Carlos Arauz
Equity, Cultural Resilience and Strengths-Based EducationDr. Juan Carlos Arauz is the Founding Executive Director of E3: Education, Excellence & Equity, an organization built on his conviction that true educational excellence is impossible without equity. Born in Brazil to Nicaraguan parents, he lived in multiple countries before age 21 and did not learn to read or write until the age of 19. This experience shaped his academic journey, culminating in an Ed.D. from the University of San Francisco with a focus on the identity development of undocumented youth. Through a strengths-based approach, Arauz helps schools move past deficit-based labels and value the lived intelligence students bring to the classroom.
Ezra Ng
School Leadership and Future-Oriented Professional LearningEzra Ng is the Executive Director of the Academy of Principals Singapore, where he plays a central role in shaping the strategic direction and professional development of school leaders within Singapore’s globally recognized education system. As a representative of the Academy, he engages with international leadership bodies, including the International Confederation of Principals, to foster cross-cultural collaboration and share Singapore’s expertise in educational excellence. His work focuses on equipping educators with future-oriented habits, adaptability, intercultural acumen, and the capacity to learn, unlearn, and relearn in a complex global landscape.
A production of The Learnerspace
The Center for AI in Education is a production of The Learnerspace, an organization dedicated to shaping the future of learning through educational innovation, leadership development, future-focused design, and the responsible use of emerging technologies.
Our approach
We believe that AI should not replace the human purposes of education. It should help schools deepen learning, strengthen professional practice, support better decisions, and expand what students and educators are able to imagine, create, and understand.
Team
The Center is developed by a team of educators, designers, technologists, and learning specialists committed to helping schools respond thoughtfully and practically to the age of AI.
Valeria Chichotky
Learning Experience SpecialistValeria Chichotky is a learning experience specialist whose work focuses on educational innovation, project design, leadership, and the responsible integration of AI into learning communities. She brings experience across formal schooling, informal education, and organizational training, helping translate emerging ideas into meaningful learning experiences.
Victor Capeluto
Technology and STEM EducationVictor Capeluto is an educator and developer of interactive educational projects with extensive experience in programming, robotics, STEM learning, and hands-on technology education. His work helps students and educators connect theory with practice through creative challenges, computational thinking, and integrated learning experiences.
Gabriel Rshaid
Director of CenterGabriel Rshaid is co-founder and director of The Learnerspace and The Global School. A recognized futurist, author, and international speaker on education and AI, he has led workshops and keynotes for educators around the world. His work focuses on helping schools build the future of learning with vision, ethics, and practical depth.
Looking ahead
The Center for AI in Education exists to help schools face the future with confidence, responsibility, creativity, and courage. At a time when education is being challenged to rethink both its tools and its deepest purposes, we aim to support communities that want to use AI not only efficiently, but wisely.