Most teacher PD has the same shape.
Someone talks at you for a day.
You take notes. You get a certificate. You go home.
Monday comes.
Nothing changes.
I've sat through plenty of it. I've also delivered plenty of it. After 20+ years moving between elite software engineering and transformative education — 2,000+ educators trained, 50+ international schools, the previous five years as Director of Pedagogy at MasaiSchool — one thing has become unavoidable for me.
The format is broken.
Not the topics. Not the people. The container.
If you want educators to design AI-amplified classrooms, you can't do it through a six-hour PowerPoint. You can't do it with a prompt library. You definitely can't do it with a certificate that lives in a drawer.
So we're not doing that anymore.
EDodo Intensives are what we're doing instead.
What an EDodo Intensive actually is
Two parts. One certification. Built for educators who want to do the work.
Part 1: The Launchpad.
One full day. Live. Designed like a launch, not a lecture.
You walk in curious.
You walk out building.
This isn't a keynote with slides. It's a working session where you get your hands dirty alongside a team of educators who are obsessed with the same problems you are.
Part 2: The Build.
Eight weeks of asynchronous, project-based learning.
You apply what you learned in the Launchpad. You ship artifacts. You get feedback from people doing this work in classrooms all over the world.
No passive video binges. No multiple choice. No "complete-by-Sunday-or-you-fail."
You build things you can use the next day. And things you'll keep using long after the program ends.
The line that changes everything
Here's the principle behind every Intensive we run:
The core belief
People should learn from how we teach as much as from what we teach.
Read it again.
If a workshop about AI-powered learning design is delivered through dead slides and passive listening, it contradicts itself.
If a session on inquiry doesn't make participants inquire, it lied.
If a program about cognitive amplification cognitively numbs you for six hours, it broke its own promise.
The medium is the message.
So in an EDodo Intensive, every activity is itself a piece of pedagogy you can study. Every interaction is designed with the same frameworks you're learning to apply.
You don't just hear about cognitive load theory.
You feel a session designed around it.
You don't just read about transferable understanding.
You watch your own understanding transfer in real time.
That's the standard. It's non-negotiable.
Not one expert on stage. A team.
This is the part most professional development gets wrong.
The best ideas in education don't come from a single genius with a microphone. They come from a small room of practitioners who care deeply, push each other, and build together.
So every EDodo Intensive is co-created and co-led by a team of 3 to 7 educators.
A math specialist alongside a TOK coordinator alongside a tech director.
Different lenses. Shared standard.
This matters for three reasons:
- Participants get richer perspectives than any one of us could deliver alone.
- Facilitators don't burn out. No single person carrying every minute of every cohort.
- The work itself gets sharper. Brilliant people who disagree make better programs.
I'm not interested in being a lonely expert on a stage. I'm interested in building a faculty.
What's launching first
Two Intensives are forming teams right now.
EDodo Intensive: Transformative Mathematics with AI
This is not "use ChatGPT to make worksheets."
It's a pedagogical system for making mathematics teaching dramatically more powerful — grounded in learning science, designed for transfer, supported by AI without losing the human judgment at the center of it.
EDodo Intensive: Concept-Based Inquiry with AI
CBI is already one of the most powerful approaches in international education.
This program shows how AI can amplify it — making concept-based design more effective, more accessible, and more scalable across very different contexts.
Both programs follow the same shape. One full-day Launchpad. Eight weeks of building. A community that stays with you afterward.
How we decide what becomes an Intensive
Not every good idea becomes an EDodo Intensive.
Every program we consider has to sit in the overlap of three circles.
Circle 1: Something the team genuinely loves to teach.
If the facilitators aren't excited, the participants will feel it within ten minutes. Passion is non-negotiable.
Circle 2: Something that makes a real difference.
Not incremental improvement. Actual transformation in how educators design learning, how students think, and what schools become capable of.
Circle 3: Something schools will invest in.
Sustainable impact requires a sustainable model. Pretending otherwise just burns out good work and produces nothing that lasts.
Only ideas at the intersection of all three become Intensives.
If your idea sits in that overlap, I'd love to hear from you.
Foundation. Practitioner. Leader.
Each Intensive is offered at one of three stages.
Foundation. You're new to this area. You build core understanding and your first set of practical tools.
Practitioner. You have the basics. Now you go deeper, refine your work, and create artifacts that demonstrate mastery in actual classrooms.
Leader. You're ready to lead this work at the school or system level. Strategy. Implementation. Measurement. Change management.
This progression mirrors structures international educators already know — like IB's Category 1, 2, and 3 workshops — but pushes beyond them into sustained, project-based depth.
A Cat 1 workshop introduces you to an idea.
A Practitioner Intensive makes you fluent in it.
A Leader Intensive makes you the person other educators turn to.
Who this is for
Teachers in IB, Cambridge, AP, or any international curriculum context who are tired of tool demos and ready for system design.
Coaches and coordinators who need frameworks, not features.
Heads of department who want their teams building with AI, not just talking about it.
School leaders who know that a one-day workshop isn't enough but don't yet know what "enough" looks like.
Educators who want to actually enjoy their professional development.
That last one matters more than people admit.
Who this is NOT for
If you're collecting certificates to check a box, this isn't it.
If you want AI to automate teaching rather than amplify it, this won't help.
If you're not willing to build, share your work, and accept feedback, you'll be miserable.
EDodo Intensives are for people who do the work. Quietly disqualifying anyone who isn't is the kindest thing we can do for the cohort.
What's already happening
I keep meeting educators from places I've never been.
Math teachers in Thailand. CBI specialists in Armenia. Tech directors in Mumbai. Heads of secondary in Riyadh. Curriculum leaders in Lagos.
They didn't find EDodo through marketing.
They found us because someone in their network took our flagship course, AI-Powered Learning Design, and wouldn't shut up about it.
That course already has 150+ international school educators actively engaged. Multiple cohorts are full. Waiting lists keep growing.
Something is happening.
People who care deeply about pedagogy are quietly finding each other. The Intensives are the next container for that work.
Not hype.
Not fear.
Building.
An open invitation
If you have an idea for an Intensive that sits in the three-circle sweet spot — you love it, it transforms practice, schools will invest in it — I want to hear from you.
The best programs won't come from me.
They'll come from the community itself. From educators who see a problem, feel called to solve it, and want a small team of like-minded people to build it with.
That isn't a tagline.
That is literally how every EDodo Intensive is born.
How I measure success
A line I keep coming back to:
I measure success by what you build, not by what I teach.
That's the whole philosophy in one sentence.
EDodo Intensives don't produce graduates who sat through a program.
They produce educators who built something real.
Something they use.
Something that changes how their students learn.
That's the mission.
If that sounds like the kind of work you want to be part of — as a participant, as a co-creator, or as a school partner — get in touch.
The next Intensive could be the one you build with us.
Learn more at edodo.app. Explore the flagship program at edodo.app/courses/ai-powered-learning-design.
Interested in co-creating an EDodo Intensive? Reach out. The next great program might be yours.
The "medium is the message" line landed hard. I sat through three AI workshops last term that contradicted their own content the moment they started. This finally names the problem.