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AI is here to stay. The real question is what your school does about it.

Help teachers and students build with AI, not just learn about it.

Learning2 is a face-to-face program where student and teacher teams design with AI on questions that matter to their school. Grounded in nearly 20 years of peer-led learning across international schools.

Two decades of impact.

For nearly twenty years, international schools have used Learning2 to figure out what comes next.

2007 — 2025
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Years of impact
Continuously gathering educators since 2007
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Conferences hosted
Across Europe, Asia, and Africa
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Countries
18+ host cities including Tokyo, Bangkok, Singapore, Milan, Addis Ababa
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Educators convened
A peer-led international community
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Students engaged
As participants, panelists, and speakers
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Student L2 Talks
Students on the main stage, not as decoration
Hosted at international schools across three continents.
International School Basel
UNIS Hanoi
ICS Addis
Zurich International School
International School of Zug and Luzern
The American School in Japan
Shanghai American School
UWC South East Asia
NIST International School
Western Academy of Beijing
Saigon South International School
International School Manila
Nanjing International School
American School of Paris
American School of Milan
Shanghai Community International School
Concordia International School Shanghai
Dulwich College Shanghai Puxi
International School Basel
UNIS Hanoi
ICS Addis
Zurich International School
International School of Zug and Luzern
The American School in Japan
Shanghai American School
UWC South East Asia
NIST International School
Western Academy of Beijing
Saigon South International School
International School Manila
Nanjing International School
American School of Paris
American School of Milan
Shanghai Community International School
Concordia International School Shanghai
Dulwich College Shanghai Puxi

Schools that treat AI as a tool will spend the next decade chasing features. Schools that treat it as a human capacity question will lead. Learning2 is built for the second kind of school.

A day in the life

A program designed around the conversations that change practice.

Two days that move participants from inspiration to collaboration, prototyping, and shared reflection.

Inspiration + designMorning

Inspiration + design

Students and teachers begin together for L2 Talks that set the tone. Then they split into different tracks for hands-on AI design work.

Shared momentMidday

Shared moment

Students and teachers interview each other. They frame the problem together, surfacing what each side might be missing.

Build + testAfternoon

Build + test

Prototype rounds with feedback from the other track. Iterate. Refine.

Share + unwindDay's end

Share + unwind

Final share-outs. Students head home. Adults have social time to connect.

The rhythm above is built on a deliberate structure. Here's how it works.

How it works

Two tracks.
One shared space.

Students and teachers learn in separate tracks, then come together at intentional points. The strongest learning happens when those spaces meet on purpose.

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Student track

Students explore the strand provocation from a learner perspective. They identify the core challenge of the design, conduct interviews, generate ideas, prototype, and lead share-outs.

Adults don't take over. Students decide what feels useful.

Led by L2 Leader + Student Advisory Board

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Teacher track

Teachers work alongside peers, validate ideas with students, and leverage AI as both a strategic thinking partner and a creative design tool, focused on what transfers back to school.

Teachers participate as learners. They are not chaperones.

Led by L2 Leader

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Shared moments

Tracks come together at intentional points. Students and teachers interview each other, frame problems together, exchange feedback, and run prototype tests. Students surface what adults are missing. Adults bring perspective students haven't reached yet.

Different expertise on the same questions.

Held by L2 Leader, with student leadership

Separate by design.
Together by intention.

Why the structure works.

Learning, designed by educators for the age of AI.

A face-to-face learning experience where student and teacher teams work alongside AI on designs, ideas, and areas of focus that matter to them.

Participants come to learn, build, test, connect, and leave with something they can use, showcase, or extend back in their own school environment. The experience is grounded in shared engagement and perspective transformation. Teachers and students enter through different lenses, work within separate tracks, and come together at intentional points to exchange ideas, test thinking, and refine what they are creating.

The program is not just about AI tools. It is about helping school communities build the human capacities that matter in the age of AI: critical thinking, creativity, perspective-taking, ethical judgment, collaboration, communication, and the ability to keep learning as technology continues to change.

What makes this Learning2

Same heart.
Sharper structure.

The world has shifted. We're redesigning Learning2 to meet the moment, while keeping the heart of what's always made it work.

What Stays

The heart

  • Social learning at the center
  • Teacher independence and agency
  • Centering student agency
  • Face-to-face connection
  • L2 Talks for inspiration
  • Deep learning experiences
  • Space for unexpected conversations
  • A strong sense of community
What Evolves

The structure

  • L2 extended sessions become extended strand work
  • Student voice is elevated to an active, integrated component of the program
  • How-to AI discussion becomes embedded AI learning
  • Onboarding and follow-up are refined as part of the full experience

Built for educators.
By educators.

Choose your focus

Strands

Each strand begins with a provocation that gives participants enough structure to focus their work while still allowing creativity and unexpected directions to emerge.

Society & AI

Designing with AI to support human flourishing rather than personal gain.

Learning & AI

AI as a learning accelerator that personalises and supports, never replaces, thinking.

Productivity & AI

Saving teachers time. Surfacing insights from school data that humans might miss.

Business & AI

Investing, budgeting, entrepreneurship, financial independence.

Environment & AI

Sustainability. Ecological footprint. Naming the real social and economic costs.

Creativity & AI

Bringing creative visions to life in art, games, music, film, and literature.

Personal growth & AI

Companions, coaches, and tutors that respect human development.

Safety & AI

Companion AI, data privacy, security. Protecting young people in AI environments.

Emerging tech

Robots, AI toys, VR. The shape of what's coming next in classrooms.

Why it matters

What each audience gets back.

Each audience invests for a different reason. All benefit from one coherent program.

Host school

Host school

Visible leadership in AI-era learning

  • A high-profile learning event connected to timely questions about AI and the future of work
  • A distinctive reputation signal for parents, faculty, boards, and peer schools
  • An opportunity for host-school students to participate as active contributors
  • Outputs, stories, and evidence that can be shared in board updates and recruitment narratives
School leaders

School leaders

Strategic capacity building

  • A practical way to build AI fluency across teachers and students
  • A structured environment for short-cycle experimentation and prototyping
  • Teacher teams returning with shared language, stronger confidence, and transferable processes
  • Evidence of future-facing learning to support board reporting and parent communication
Teachers

Teachers

Practical professional learning

  • A collaborative experience rooted in their school's unique context
  • Practical AI fluency focused on thinking, design, and learning
  • A tangible output grounded in their school or classroom context
  • A peer network of educators exploring similar questions
Students

Students

ACTIVE CONTRIBUTORS

  • Genuine agency in shaping ideas, outputs, and decisions
  • Guided practice using AI responsibly, ethically, creatively, and critically
  • A portfolio-worthy experience on topics that matter to them
  • Exposure to students, teachers, and experts from beyond their own classroom
L2 Leaders

L2 Leaders

Facilitating intergenerational learning

  • A clear facilitation role within a redesigned Learning2 model
  • Preparation through the L2 Coaching Programme
  • A stronger toolkit for AI-supported, concept-based learning
  • Connection to a wider Learning2 community
Parents

Parents

Reassurance and opportunity

  • Guided AI literacy in an ethical, age-appropriate environment
  • A focus on future-ready human skills: critical thinking, empathy, collaboration, adaptability
  • An understanding of how AI can help their child learn without replacing human judgment
  • A distinctive experience their child can speak about in future academic or personal contexts
Ready to talk?

Host the 2027 event.Send a team.Become a founding partner.

The role of AI

From basic literacy to practical fluency.

Participants learn to work with AI responsibly, creatively, and critically. AI shows up in three ways across the experience.

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    AI as a tool to learn about

    Participants build practical understanding of the tools they'll be using, how they work, what they're good at, and where they can fail in the context of their strand.

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    AI as a thinking partner

    Participants use AI to explore perspectives, challenge assumptions, generate ideas, test reasoning, and ask better questions.

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    AI as a design partner

    Participants create prototypes, mockups, written drafts, visuals, frameworks, or implementation materials with AI's help.

How we hold the experience

Built on trust.

Three commitments that shape how Learning2 operates around safeguarding, AI policy, and partner relationships.

Layered safeguarding

Sending schools retain duty of care for their students and staff, including travel and parental consent. The host school provides chaperone coverage for the on-site student cohort. An L2 Leader, a vetted adult facilitator, is present in all student-facing program time. Teachers attending the program are participants in their own learning track. They are not chaperones.

Host-school-led AI policy

Learning2 works within the host school's AI policy, following their lead on what tools and practices are appropriate for their community. Tool selection prioritizes platforms with clear data handling that comply with regulatory requirements in the host country, such as GDPR. Student work remains the student's.

Partner integrity

Learning2 is actively seeking partners who can contribute expertise, tools, and sponsorship. Strands and provocations are defined by the working group, not by partners. Where a partner's tool is featured, it's named transparently and contextualized within a broader landscape. Confirmed partners will be published well ahead of the event.

In their words

Why Learning2.

The model on this page is the scaffolding. What happens inside it — the water cooler conversations, the student who finds their voice on a main stage, the teacher who goes home rethinking their classroom — that's the part no diagram can show. Hear it from the people who've lived it.

A host school leaderISB Basel
A host school leaderUNIS Hanoi
An L2 LeaderOn what participants take home
Three ways to engage

Host the 2027 event.Send a team.Become a founding partner.

Each path shapes what Learning2 becomes next. Schools that engage now help design the program. Schools that wait will choose from what's already built.

Group at end of conference day