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Verdant works with ministries, investors, foundations, and operators on the design and delivery of schools and school systems. Seven government mandates. Twenty-eight countries. Our thesis is that education improves when leadership, teaching, measurement, and innovation move together, and we build engagements around that.
Recent writing.
The year of implementation. AI policies come off the page in AY 2026-27.
Three years of AI-in-schools policy work is now being enacted in classrooms. UAE schools, like Estonia, adopted the technology early. Now they need to move from early adoption to considered adoption, without stifling innovation or drifting into cognitive offloading.
How do you improve a diverse school system?
A regulator overseeing approximately 200 private schools cannot pull one lever and expect it to travel. Notes from the design of a UAE regulator's improvement function.
The COVID-19 culture lessons that apply to AI in schools.
A dissertation study of seven for-profit private schools, on why the culture questions of AI adoption matter as much as the technology questions.
AI is in every classroom. Now what?
The question is which parts of the school need to change to make AI use worthwhile, and in what order.
Why inspection-ready is the wrong bar.
Inspection ratings are the visible marker. Parents choose on the things inspection does not measure.
Where should the next philanthropic dollar in education go?
A working view on early literacy, teacher quality, secondary transitions, and youth employability, for foundations weighing the next round of grants.
Recent engagements.
A new school platform, from vision to licensed operator.
An academic plan for a national STEM school for gifted and talented youth.
HP IDEA. 1.5 million students reached through teacher innovation and AI skills.
Six more engagements across the UAE, Africa, and beyond.
Verdant is an end-to-end education consultancy, from strategy to implementation.
We work with ministries, investors, foundations, and operators on the full arc of a school or a school system. Strategy, academic model, AI-shaped curriculum and teaching, staffing, facilities, inspection readiness, and opening operations. AI is part of how we design every layer, not a separate practice we sell.