Hi! My name is Josh and I have been in the classroom since 2020. Training during the 2019-2020 academic year - a period defined by the global pandemic - was a "baptism of fire" that taught me exactly how vital, and at times how frustrating, educational technology can be. That experience shaped my belief that any tech solution must serve the teacher first, or it isn’t a solution at all.
Today, I balance my time between the classroom and the boardroom. As Head of Physics & Astronomy at a large secondary academy in the UK, I stay rooted in the daily reality of the classroom. Simultaneously, as the EdTech & AI Strategy Lead for a large MAT, I work to ensure our schools are navigating the rise of generative AI with a clear, ethical, and sustainable roadmap.
My interest in AI didn't start with the recent headlines. In 2018, while completing a Postgraduate Certificate in Theoretical Physics at King's College London, I worked on a project using GPT-1 to analyze thousands of academic abstracts on the arXiv repository. Seeing a machine’s potential to assist in human discovery was a "lightbulb moment" for me.
I founded OrbitEd because I want to bring that same sense of possibility to schools—not as a distant "expert," but as a colleague who is testing these frameworks in a real classroom every single day.