AI & digital support for educators

Practical ideas for a
lighter digital workload.

A useful prompt. A clearer workflow. A boundary you can keep. Explore small changes that fit your working day, then decide what earns its place.

Find your starting point

New here? You do not need to have attended a workshop. The resources are free to use, with no registration required.

Start with one task

Ten minutes.
One useful decision.

Pick a repeated task that feels heavier than it should. It might need a template, a team conversation or a little help with a first draft.

Download the one-page worksheet PDF

01
Name the burden
What takes the time: drafting, duplicate entry, interruptions or an unclear requirement? Estimate the effort.
02
Try the smallest change
Stop, simplify, assist or discuss. If AI fits, use a fictional example and give it a clear brief.
03
Check the whole result
Count setup, review and corrections too. Keep the change only if the effort and quality make sense.

Two examples to try

A first draft you can question

Copy a prompt into an institution-approved AI assistant, or use it as a brief for a colleague. No particular AI subscription is required.

A lesson activity

A fictional lesson brief with a time limit, a reading-level option and an explicit check for assumptions.

Your review: Does the sequence total 20 minutes? Are the questions useful and accessible? What needs correcting?

Ready-to-copy prompt

Draft a 20-minute activity about checking the reliability of online sources for learners aged 12–14 with mixed reading confidence. Use paper only and no student accounts. Include one observable learning objective, a timed sequence totalling 20 minutes, two explicitly fictional source snippets, a simpler reading option, four exit questions and suggested answers. Do not invent real citations or assume a national curriculum. List facts and assumptions for me to verify. Return a concise draft for educator review.

A message to families

A fictional event message that uses supplied facts and avoids inventing missing arrangements.

Your review: Check every date, time and place. Read for tone and clarity. Nothing should send automatically.

Ready-to-copy prompt

Draft a warm, plain-English message to families under 100 words with a subject line. Fictional facts: reading evening on 12 November, 16:00–17:00, school library. Families may bring a favourite book. No reply is required. Use only these facts. Do not invent a weekday, contact person, booking link or accessibility arrangements. Make attendance optional and avoid pressure to buy anything. Put missing details or questions for the educator after the message.

Working workshop tools

UNLOAD / REFLECT / PROTECT

Choose one small task. These guided tools help you prepare a prompt, organise your reflection or draft a boundary agreement. They run in your browser. Your entries stay on this page until you leave or refresh it, unless you choose to copy or download them.

Use generic work situations. No identifiable child, patient, family or colleague information. These tools do not send your entries to Janine or to an AI service.

UNLOADPrepare a useful task prompt

Create a clear brief for an institution-approved AI assistant. This tool builds the prompt; you choose whether and where to use it.

What do you need to draft?

Who is it for? (optional)

Output format

Fictional or public facts (optional)

REFLECTWork through one workload pattern

Make a short working note from your own observations. This is guided reflection, with no AI interpretation or wellbeing score.

Which repeated task are you reviewing?

Estimated minutes per week (optional)

What is getting in the way?

Who can change this?

Your own next-step idea (optional)

PROTECTDraft a realistic digital boundary

Prepare wording for an agreement about routine messages. Keep existing urgent and safeguarding routes available.

When will you check routine messages?

Proposed response window

Existing approved route for urgent matters

Who needs to agree? (optional)

An existing platform to explore

Happy Troopers

The provider describes employee check-ins and manager insights, with AI-supported recommendations. It is aimed at HR teams and managers.

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A conversation before adoption

What would a manager change in response? Who sees which information? Would another check-in help or add work?

For a small team, ask specifically about response thresholds and identification. The provider’s policy describes aggregated check-in results and some other signals that identify people to managers.

Happy Troopers is a separate platform from the guided workshop tools. Descriptions come from its public website and have not been independently tested here. No claim of proven burnout prevention is made.

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A 30-day experiment

One workflow. One boundary.

Week 1

Record your starting point.

Week 2

Test one small change.

Week 3

Compare effort and quality.

Week 4

Keep, adapt or stop.

Use the worksheet to set a review date and name the support you need. Decide what any recovered time should make room for.

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What would help you next?

You might want a session on AI-assisted lesson preparation, clearer communication or digital boundaries for your team. Tell me which task you want to work on.

Educators and colleagues who missed the workshop are welcome. You do not need to arrange training or make purchasing decisions to express interest.

Ask about a session for your team

Or email janinevanthroo@gmail.com

Practical ideas for alighter digital workload.

Ten minutes.One useful decision.

Name the burden

Try the smallest change

Check the whole result