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Having worked in schools for over 34 years, Paul Browning has witnessed shifts in education. In 1990, when he first entered the classroom, there was no curriculum; nor were there professional standards, high-stakes testing or compliance demands.
Over time, pressure on schools and teachers has grown, leaving little space to plan rich learning experiences, and outcomes have declined.
To find out how Australia’s schools can turn the tables on this education omnicrisis, Browning has consulted global experts across disciplines such as technology, economics, theology and philosophy, as well as AI leaders, to discuss its impact on teaching and learning.
In 2024, off the back of these initiatives, Browning and a team of educators with a combined 120-plus years of experience went a step further, launching Vivedus – an edtech company that aims to “transform education globally” by providing “a whole-school teaching and learning solution for the AI era”.
Vivedus is an Australian education technology company helping schools take their planning, teaching and learning beyond. Grounded in research and built for busy educators, Vivedus combines AI-powered tools with a research-based learning activation model (LAM) to tackle mounting workloads, curriculum alignment, staff growth, wellbeing, compliance and more. By reducing administrative burden and surfacing actionable insights, Vivedus gives leaders clear visibility to lift teaching quality and support staff development while teachers reclaim time to focus on what matters most – rich, future-focused learning. Vivedus provides the model, the tools and the support schools need to truly take learning beyond. Explore dedicated solutions for school leaders at www.vivedus.com/solutions/principals.
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“Until now, school leaders have had no practical way to ensure [teaching] consistency – and quality – without investing enormous time, effort and resources, and even then it’s difficult to measure impact. The Vivedus Planner changes that”
Paul Browning,
Vivedus
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“In short, the Vivedus Planner restores balance – reducing administrative burdens, ensuring compliance and giving teachers back the time and cognitive space to do what they do best: teach and inspire learning”
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Making life at school easier for everyone “The vision for Vivedus is simple: make life better for everyone in the school community – school leaders, teachers, students and parents,” Browning says.
“The key lies in the quality of teaching, which research consistently shows has the greatest impact on student learning. But teachers today need support to achieve this. They need their load lightened.”
Browning says Vivedus provides that support, reducing workload while empowering teachers to plan and deliver high-quality learning experiences aligned with the curriculum.
“Inspired by Sir Ken Robinson’s challenge ‘Do Schools Kill
Creativity?’, Vivedus equips teachers with the tools to not only deliver the curriculum but teach it creatively,” he says.
“When you teach creatively and for creativity, you lift student engagement, deepen learning, improve outcomes and prepare young people with the skills and dispositions they need to thrive in the AI era.”
Clarity, headroom and systemwide coherence Browning says the Vivedus Planner helps schools address inconsistent teaching quality by unifying culture, curriculum, evidence-based pedagogy, assessment and outcomes in one platform.
“Research has shown that when schools establish a consistent, evidence-based approach to learning across classrooms, students experience greater certainty and the conditions they need to thrive. But consistency means more than evidence-based practices,” Browning says.
“It spans teaching quality, shared language and expectations, quality of planning, pedagogical approaches, assessment practices and the link between all of these and student outcomes.”
Browning says the sticking point is standardising planning and evidencing outcomes at scale.
“Until now, school leaders have had no practical way to ensure that consistency – and quality – without investing enormous time, effort and resources, and even then it’s difficult to measure impact. The Vivedus Planner changes that,” he says.
“It seamlessly aligns all aspects of teaching and learning, from school culture to curriculum, evidence-based pedagogies, assessment and outcomes within a single platform. As teachers plan for learning, the system ensures their work is aligned to curriculum and best practice, raising the quality of planning and instruction across the board.”
Browning says the Planner provides clarity for leaders, headroom for teachers and systemwide coherence without extra admin.
“For leaders, it provides visibility across every classroom, enabling them to support and lift teaching quality in ways that are targeted and measurable,” he says. “For teachers, it reduces planning time dramatically, while enhancing the quality of learning design. The result is consistency at scale, without adding workload, something no other tool has achieved.”
At the same time, compliance requirements such as NCCD evidence collection are automated, Browning says. “The Planner gathers and organises the data seamlessly as teachers work, providing school leaders and business managers with the reports they need without adding to teacher workload.
“In short, the Vivedus Planner restores balance – reducing administrative burdens, ensuring compliance and giving teachers back the time and cognitive space to do what they do best: teach and inspire learning.”
Equipping teachers to ‘take learning beyond’ Browning says that while freeing up time for teachers to focus on students’ learning is important, the OECD has warned that the bigger issue is being overlooked: as AI reshapes work and life, the skills and dispositions promoted through education must also change.
“The Vivedus Planner is designed to meet that challenge,” he says. “Underpinned by 70-plus years of research and evidence-based pedagogies, it ensures students not only master curriculum content but also develop the creativity, critical thinking and problem-solving skills that will make them employable and adaptable in the AI era.”
As teachers plan, the Planner, supported by an ‘AI coach’, ViV-iT, guides them to embed pedagogies that activate higher-order thinking.
“It then generates tailored, curriculum-aligned lesson plans for their specific students, designed to spark imagination, deepen engagement and improve outcomes,” Browning explains.
“ViV-iT also highlights opportunities and approaches to engage diagnostic and formative assessment. The Planner does the heavy lifting and provides the professional development to teachers to enable them to ‘take learning beyond’.
“For leaders, this means confidence that every classroom is preparing young people not just for exams but for life beyond school. For students, it means learning that is future-focused, meaningful and full of hope in an age of rapid change.”
Restoring balance in Australia’s schools Browning says that with teachers burdened by compliance and administration that strip away time for effective teaching, productivity in education cannot simply mean “doing more with less”.
“The Vivedus Planner was built by teachers and school leaders to directly tackle this challenge. It dramatically reduces the time and effort required for planning and compliance, freeing teachers to focus on teaching and students,” he says.
“With the Planner, a high-quality 10-week unit can be created in a fraction of the time, and fully differentiated, curriculum-aligned lesson plans can be generated at the click of a button, all at a Highly Accomplished Teacher standard.”