The Frontier Class · Research Grant & Programme
Making great educators irreplaceable.
The Frontier Class is a nomination-only cohort for educators at the cutting edge of teaching and learning with AI. Join a community of educators, leaders and researchers re-imagining the student experience.
Nominations close 30 June
Frontier educators come from the world's best schools
The community
The Frontier Class
There is a growing community of educators who believe in teaching at the frontier with AI — and that the work of this moment is making teachers more irreplaceable.
Nominated
You were nominated.
Somebody who knows the work pointed at you and said: this person is shaping what teaching can be. That's how you got here. Five hundred educators across the world are in this circle with you — the people we'll be building alongside, learning from, and pointing to when the conversation turns to what good teaching looks like now.
Community perks
- Mindjoy's Educator Agent
- AI Literacy courses for your school
- Personalised AI Readiness & Rollout Plan
Shortlisted
You're on the wall.
One hundred educators whose practice, voice, or thinking we want the rest of the field to see — because they're obsessed with the student experience. Your name and school live on the Frontier Class Wall as a way to celebrate the work being done, by people like you. You'll sit in invite-only conversations with the educators redefining the field.
Community perks
- Everything Nominated educators get
- Live panels with leading global educators
- Frontier Class community events
- Public recognition on the Wall of Fame
The Inner Circle
You're in the room where it's figured out.
Fifty educators — the ones we're building the future of teaching with, not for. You'll run live experiments in your own classroom, get a research grant to fund the work, and sit shoulder-to-shoulder with peers who are answering the same questions you are: What does great teaching look like in the age of AI? What does it mean to be irreplaceable? This isn't a programme you complete. It's a cohort you join.
Community perks
- Everything Shortlisted educators get
- $150 research grant for applied teaching-and-learning research
- Ongoing Mindjoy access
- Hands-on workshops with leading educators
- Live experiments and peer research sessions
- Bespoke school integration support
- Peer network of the world's fifty Frontier educators
Who it's for
The educators already in the work.
We're looking for the ones their colleagues quietly copy. The ones their students remember ten years later. The ones who saw AI coming and decided to lead instead of hide.
You're who we're looking for if:
- You've built something — a tutor, a workflow, an awesome simulation or experience — with AI in your own classroom.
- Your students show up differently because of it, and you're focused on the ethos and student values.
- You're tired of being told AI will replace you, and you want a room of peers who know it won't — but believe a teacher's role looks very different in the future.
From the founder
Incredible educators are change agents.
I started Mindjoy because of a study that's haunted me for years — and a question inside it that almost everyone has misread.
In 1984, Benjamin Bloom published a finding that one-on-one tutoring produces two standard deviations of learning improvement over a conventional classroom. The 50th percentile becoming the 98th. He called it the Two Sigma Problem.
Every technologist since has read that and heard: “Replace the classroom with AI tutors.”
But here's what they missed — and what you only notice if you've actually been a teacher: most people are social learners. The classroom isn't a bug. It's the mechanism. Students learn through discussion, through watching a peer figure something out, through making their thinking visible and being changed by what comes back.
“The 2 Sigma Problem: The Search for Methods of Group Instruction as Effective as One-to-One Tutoring.”
— Benjamin Bloom, 1984
Bloom's actual question — the title of the paper — was: “How do we make group instruction as effective as one-to-one tutoring?” Not how do we replace the group. How do we make it better, from the inside.
The answer is an educator who has the intelligence of a personal tutor about every student in the room, in real time. That's what Mindjoy builds for. Not AI that replaces the teacher. AI that makes the teacher the most powerful version of themselves they've ever been.
The Frontier Class is how we find the educators who already understand this — and fund them to build what comes next.
If that's you — or someone you know — put a name forward.
CEO & Co-Founder, Mindjoy
How it works
Nominations. Shortlisted. Selected.
Nominations
Open globally. Self-nominate or be nominated by a peer.
Shortlisted
Reviewed by the Mindjoy team. Selected for depth of practice and evidence of impact.
Selected
Cohort 1. Frontier Class educators. The programme begins.
Our tribe
Join our tribe of frontier educators
The educators who've already done this work — and what changed for them and their students.
Reclaiming Time for What Matters Most
“I used to feel I had to mark everything and provide feedback on every piece of work myself. Now, I have a helper. AI handles the heavy lifting, freeing me up to focus on what matters most.”
Claire Pattle
Thomas More College
Wall of fame
The 100 shortlisted educators
Selected from 500+ global nominations for depth of practice and evidence of impact. Names revealed once Cohort 1 is finalised — until then, this could be you.
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🇮🇪Dublin · Ireland
Kirk McCormack
Head of Department, BSc Architectural Technology
Technological University Dublin
Builds digital environments — Unity physics sims, VR demolition apps, and a 28,567-part digital house disassembly — where the consequence corrects the student, not the lecturer.
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🇬🇧· United Kingdom
Clare Jarmy
Director of Innovation (R–13)
Haberdashers’ Elstree Schools
A philosopher by background leading AI integration and curriculum innovation at Habs Elstree, now vibe-coding a strengths-based skills platform for deeper tutor-student conversations.
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🇿🇦Cape Town · South Africa
Campbell Smith
Classroom Teacher, Economics & EMS (Gr 8–12)
Bishops Diocesan College
Built and launched a tailored AI Economics tutor within 90 minutes. Learners report clearer understanding, faster feedback, and the confidence to practise until they get it.
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🇬🇧· United Kingdom
Rea Pope
Classroom Teacher, Science
Moon Hall
Works with SEND students, using AI tutors to read and simplify questions and differentiate work after assessment, helping learners strive for more than they thought possible.
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🇷🇴Bucharest · Romania
Matthew Wemyss
Assistant School Director & Innovation Lead
Cambridge School of Bucharest
International school leader and bestselling author on AI in education. Writes the AI Insights newsletter, built AILitKit, and builds bots that guide rather than do.
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🇿🇦Durban · South Africa
Debbie Morgan
Head of Dramatic Arts (Gr 8–12)
St Mary’s DSG, Kloof
Uses AI to write monologues, compose performance tracks, and design images for projects, embracing the creative frontier while keeping every character voice authentic.
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🇬🇧· United Kingdom
Luke Harris
Director of Digital Strategy & Computing
Bloxham School
Sees AI as part of the wider learning and access conversation, not a shiny shortcut. Helping deliver an ISA conference day on AI, assistive tech and inclusivity.
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🇦🇪Abu Dhabi · UAE
Shahana Noushad-Mammu
Head of Computer Science & ICT
GEMS Cambridge International School
Built an AI revision and exam-practice agent that acts as a personalised tutor, generating questions, adapting difficulty, and giving Socratic feedback rather than just answers.
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Dubai · UAE
Nordine Tebti
Head of Department, French
GEMS Dubai American Academy
Built a Contextual AI Persona Tutor that becomes a French shopkeeper or local resident matched to each student’s level, giving gentle real-time feedback on grammar and vocabulary.
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🇿🇦Cape Town · South Africa
Bronwyn Desjardins
Innovation Lead, ICT
Bishops Diocesan College
Digital Learning and ICT innovator with 25+ years in education and Apple Professional Learning Lead for South Africa. Builds AI tutors that scaffold thinking rather than replace it.
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🇦🇪Abu Dhabi · UAE
Edric Pascoe
Innovation Lead, Primary (FS1–Y6)
Bateen World Academy
Shifted his Year 6 classroom from AI as teacher tool to students critically and responsibly engaging with AI themselves: questioning, creating, reflecting and improving their thinking.
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🇺🇸Austin · United States
Rajagopal Sankaranarayanan
Higher Education Lecturer, AI Ethics & Research Methods
The University of Texas at Austin
Teaches in the Liberal Arts Honors Program at UT Austin. Building an AI research companion that helps students refine questions and evaluate sources without handing them finished answers.
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· United Kingdom
Henry Gauntlett
Classroom Teacher, Biology & Digital Innovation Practitioner
Haberdashers’ Elstree Schools
A self-taught vibe-coder spearheading Habs’ build-and-make approach to AI, creating staff-training and student-monitoring platforms plus an AI-built knowledge wiki.
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