Jonathan Dando-Laing

Founding team @OakNational. Director of School Support & External Relations. @BrentfordFC season ticket holder. Expect typos - all my fault.

[Matt Hood @matthewhood]

After 5 years, today marks my final week leading @OakNational. I’m so glad to close this chapter with the brilliant news that our resources are now live in prisons.

@tes has kindly let me reflect (ok, indulge) on my time. A quick summary below…🧵

https://t.co/5xuSunjyN5

[Jonathan Dando-Laing @Jonathan_Dando]

It was fantastic to host @patmcfaddenmp and @CMcKinnellMP at the brilliant @CharterSe16 this morning.

Teachers were really positive about how @OakNational's Aila can free them up to have more time with pupils and personalise their support.

[Cabinet Office @cabinetofficeuk]

This morning @patmcfaddenmp & @CMcKinnellMP visited Charter School Bermondsey, where teachers are using @OakNational AI to create lesson plans

This is just one example of how the government's AI Opportunities Action Plan will harness the potential of new technology across the UK

[Oak National Academy @OakNational]

🙌 Giving teachers their Sunday nights back…

Great to see Aila, our AI lesson assistant, leading the news on how we can support teachers to save time and have a more manageable workload, explained below by @patmcfaddenmp. 

👀 Want to know more? Join the 1,000+ teachers signed up for our webinar this Wednesday on how to plan high-quality, personalised lessons with Aila: https://t.co/LHFAlWYdef

[Oak National Academy @OakNational]

⚡Don’t just take it from us. 

Across the 2023/2024 academic year, here’s how teachers found using our resources helped them - from time saved to workload management to improved wellbeing, all of which leave teachers free to spend more time with pupils! 

💫1 in 3 teachers use Oak
and those teachers are making the most of new resources - with Oak usage up 158% on last year!
💫73% of Oak users see a positive impact on their workload - either reducing their hours, or freeing them up to spend more time with pupils.
💫Oak users work almost five hours fewer per week with the impact growing the more a teacher uses Oak.

And these are just the highlights…

For a more detailed look at how we’ve impacted teachers over the last year, dive into the full blog post: https://t.co/QNmavflmJn

[Tes magazine @tes]

.@OakNational chief @matthewhood explains why new data on the use of its resources shows that debates on teacher autonomy need to be more nuanced
https://t.co/EiKXssFFJl

[Jonathan Dando-Laing @Jonathan_Dando]

@NatInstTeaching @reuben_moore @MelanieRenowden @reubenmoore Congrats @reuben_moore! Hugely deserved.

[Jonathan Dando-Laing @Jonathan_Dando]

@martinmccluskey Brilliant news. Congratulations

[Jonathan Dando-Laing @Jonathan_Dando]

Radio 4 even had a live parkour session in the studio, as Sarah Montague attempted to describe Gogoly Yao jumping over chairs...

We'll forgive them for getting @OakNational's name wrong, for such a wonderful bit of radio!

https://t.co/N1zhjH2Ahv

[The World at One @BBCWorldatOne]

Oak Park Academy, a school that provides teaching resources for others, has devised a lesson for parkour - but could we see it as part of the national curriculum?

Gogoly Yao, a free running coach, explains the moves he would teach, as well as giving a demonstration 🏃‍♂️

#BBCWato

[Jonathan Dando-Laing @Jonathan_Dando]

Can parkour and pickleball pique pupils’ passion for PE?

Great to see so much positive coverage of @OakNational's new curriculum plans.

As part of a broad and rigorous offer, we're putting a focus on arts, activity, online safety and digital skills

[The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes]

New curriculum plans aim to encourage children to stay active in later life as government also seeks to improve standards at “stuck” schools

🔓 This is free to read https://t.co/6EeQZmcPPb

[Jonathan Dando-Laing @Jonathan_Dando]

We've released a whole set of new curriculum plans today. At the heart of a broad and rigorous offer, we're putting focus on:
🎨 Modern, contemporary artists to inspire creativity
🎾 New sports, from parkour to pickleball, to get kids active
💻 Online safety and digital skills

[Matt Hood @matthewhood]

Today at @OakNational, we’ve made available something we don’t think has ever been done before:

A high-quality, openly licenced model of the entire national curriculum, right down to the lesson level.

Some more info on this is below 🧵...

[Jonathan Dando-Laing @Jonathan_Dando]

@matilda__martin @politicshome Congratulations. That's a great gig - and very well deserved. Sure you'll smash it.

[Jonathan Dando-Laing @Jonathan_Dando]

A couple of great sessions by the team at @ResearchED1 tomorrow #rEd24

[Oak National Academy @OakNational]

Will you be joining @MccreaEmma, our head of curriculum design and @edufountain, our English subject lead tomorrow at @researchED1?

[Oak National Academy @OakNational]

On Tuesday we hosted a sneak preview event to show some of the education community just what Aila can do. It was a pleasure to have @pepediiasio from  @ASCL_UK join us for an excellent panel discussion.

[Matt Hood @matthewhood]

One of our missions at @OakNational is to give teachers their Sunday nights back.

To help, today we launch Aila, our AI-powered lesson assistant.

Our aim has been to develop a product that keeps teachers in control of planning, whilst lightening their load
🧵on what we've done

[Jonathan Dando-Laing @Jonathan_Dando]

Our beta AI lesson assistant launches today.

I've been lucky to see just how much thought, educational expertise and testing with teachers has gone into this. All to create an AI tool that keeps the teacher in charge while genuinely lightening the load.

Take a look 👇

[Oak National Academy @OakNational]

Whether it’s creating bespoke resources or helping you tailor content to your class, Aila can transform your lesson prep. Aila will help speed things along —giving you more time to bring your lessons to life.

[Tes magazine @tes]

.@OakNational has developed its new AI tool with the aim of ensuring that teachers can create lesson plans without having to worry about the safety or accuracy of content, writes @johnrobeds
https://t.co/y4l7VVE7xQ

[Jonathan Dando-Laing @Jonathan_Dando]

Also spent two weeks driving and camping around Namibia. Also, 10/10.

[Jonathan Dando-Laing @Jonathan_Dando]

Did a thing over summer. Changed my name. Would recommend, 10/10.

[Pepe Di’Iasio @pepediiasio]

Amazing effort from a wonderful team -enjoy a well deserved summer break 😎

[Jonathan Dando-Laing @Jonathan_Dando]

@JohndickensSW @Samfr @SchoolsWeek @tom_belger I'm sure @Samfr will be delighted he's accompanying you in the bath... 🛀