Grassroots Education school-built & school-owned technology
school-built & school-owned technology

Your teachers already know what they need.
I help them build it.

Google Workspace, Apps Script, AI, your staff's ideas - I bring these together into tools that work.
Then I teach your staff to build the next ones themselves.

£0 subscription fees after setup
100% school-owned tools and data
∞ apps your staff can build on top

What if your tools were built around your school?

Imagine software that fits your teachers' exact needs, uses your own data, and belongs to your school permanently, built on infrastructure you already have and understand.

The right tools grow from your teachers' knowledge, fit your school precisely, and stay yours permanently.

I help schools grow their own applications, from grassroots teacher innovation into a shared framework and culture.

what can teachers actually make?

Professional tools. Built in a day. Owned forever.

Using AI tools and Google Workspace infrastructure, teachers are building software that outperforms the platforms their schools pay for. Not prototypes or workarounds, but polished, purposeful tools matched to needs that no commercial product will ever serve. The possibilites are infinite. Here are examples.

AI Assessment Summary
assessment & reporting

AI-powered Report Proofreader

Before: Many hours spent manually checking and still errors persist.

After: Accurately proofreads reports against the school's reporting guidelines in seconds. Both more reliable and immensely time-saving.

see how it works →
Student HTML Game Creator
pupil-facing & creative

Student Maths Extension Question Creator

Before: Extension questions were generic, set by the teacher, and finished quickly by some children with nothing left to do.

After: Students can create their own extension questions matching a level, a topic and a description, thereby taking more ownership of their learning.

see how it works →
What makes this different

A model that grows from practice, not product pressure

This model doesn't depend on fitting your practice to a third-party framework with ongoing subscription. Instead it gives you capability that your school actually owns and keeps.

Your student data with your staff's ideas, Google's infrastructure and with Apps Script as the glue - the only thing missing is someone who knows how to connect them, and who can teach your staff to do it themselves.
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Your data, unlocked

Student records, groups, contacts, and assessment data, structured, searchable, and ready to power any tool your staff want to build.

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Tools your staff already use

Not another platform to log into. Apps that live in Google Drive with its controlled secure access and data protection.

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AI with professional control

AI services integrated into your own tools, with teacher oversight, age-appropriate guardrails, and a full audit trail of every use.

Standard approach
Generic AI awareness training.
Off-the-shelf platform.
Ongoing licence costs.
Dependent on the vendor.
Framework imposed top-down.
This approach
Staff who can build real tools.
School-owned apps in Drive.
No recurring fees after setup.
Yours to maintain and extend.
Framework grown from practice.
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3-stage development

The three stages of development starting from your teachers' first self-made applications solving their immediate problems, and leading to a shared practice and culture.