Hong Kong Trains School Leaders to Build AI Into School Planning

Hong Kong’s Education Bureau is putting artificial intelligence into the language of whole-school planning, not just classroom experimentation.

Under its new digital education blueprint, publicly funded schools are being asked to incorporate digital education into School Development Plans and Annual School Plans for 2026–27. The Education Bureau is supporting that work with “AI Leadership” training for school heads, deputy heads and relevant middle leaders.

The strategic sessions cover how AI and digital education can sit within the school planning–implementation–evaluation cycle, alongside curriculum planning and the territory’s AI Literacy Learning Framework. That framework asks schools to help students “learn AI well”, “use AI effectively” and “use AI responsibly”.

Why this matters

The immediate policy applies to Hong Kong’s publicly funded sector, but the planning model is relevant well beyond it. For international-school leaders, it is another reminder that AI decisions increasingly touch curriculum, professional learning, assessment, governance and communication with families.

The useful question is becoming less about which individual AI tool a school should adopt and more about what a coherent, school-wide approach should look like — and how leaders will know whether it is working.

The first strategic sessions are being held on 24 and 25 August, with reruns in September and practical planning workshops following later that month and in early October.

Read the Hong Kong Education Bureau circular

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