Phil Lupton

Educational AI  ·  EdTech  ·  Teacher Training

Hi, I’m Phil. I help educators thrive in the age of AI.

Twenty-five years as a teacher, school leader and education adviser — in the UK and internationally, with ministries of education, school groups and thousands of teachers. Now I build the AI that carries that work into every classroom.

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The belief behind all of it

Technology should give teachers more time to be human — not less. I build and champion AI that makes education fairer, faster and more personal, because every child deserves a great teacher, wherever they go to school.

What I do

Four kinds of work.
One throughline.

Everything below starts in a classroom and ends in a classroom. The tools only exist because the training kept running into the same wall: great teaching is hard to see, hard to measure and hard to sustain at scale.

  1. 01

    Teacher development

    Setting The Standard — nine sessions, 27 masterclass videos and more than 15 hours of training, accredited by The CPD Standards Office and built on the evidence of how students actually learn. English and Arabic, one certificate.

  2. 02

    Lesson analysis

    Learnalyze turns lesson video into evidence. Upload a lesson and the AI analyses it like a trained observer — personalised, actionable feedback for the teacher, and objective whole-school data for leaders.

  3. 03

    Admissions & enquiry

    Gatehouse is the AI host for a school’s website. She answers parents’ questions at nine o’clock at night, in whatever language they ask in, out loud or in writing — then captures the enquiry and hands the admissions team the follow-up already written.

  4. 04

    Advice & speaking

    Ministries of education, school groups and international schools. Curriculum and assessment authorship, national advisory work, and training and speaking in more than ten countries.

Ventures

The work I’m building.

The company · Teacher development

Elm Education

Evidence-informed professional development that brings world-class teaching to every classroom — and the home of Setting The Standard.

elmeducation.org →

The engine · Educational AI

Learnalyze

A coach in every teacher’s pocket: AI lesson analysis that gives teachers feedback they can act on and leaders evidence they can trust.

learnalyze.net →

The front door · Admissions AI

Gatehouse

The AI host for a school’s website — answering families in any language, at any hour, and never letting an enquiry go cold.

getgatehouse.com →
“The greatest privilege in education isn’t standing on a stage speaking to teachers — it’s seeing those teachers inspire children in classrooms months later.”

— Phil Lupton

Phil Lupton speaking on stage at a conference

About

A little about me.

I started in the classroom. Twenty-five years later I have been a teacher, a school leader and a national education adviser; I have written curriculum and assessment materials; and I have trained teachers in more than ten countries.

I founded Elm Education on one belief: every child deserves a great teacher, wherever they go to school. Everything I build now — the training programme, the analysis engine, the admissions assistant — comes back to that. The work has taken me to ministries of education, school groups and thousands of teachers across the UK, the Gulf and beyond.

  • Former teacher & school leader
  • National Education Adviser
  • Curriculum & assessment author
  • Speaker & trainer in more than 10 countries
My full career on LinkedIn →

Building something in education & AI?

Schools, ministries, partners and founders — tell me a little about what you are working on, whether that is training, evidence, admissions, speaking or advice, and I will come back to you personally.

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