About Us - PPA Buddy

Teacher Workload Solutions To Protect Your Well-being.

PPA Buddy was designed by a teacher, for teachers

I’m Claire: teacher, product-development veteran and your on-call PPA strategist.

Over a decade designing high-stakes products taught me more than systems thinking; it taught me how to negotiate impossible deadlines, influence tough stakeholders (picture Devil Wears Prada boardrooms) and keep boundary-shredding demands firmly in check.

When I moved into the classroom, I saw the same pressures destroying teachers’ evenings, increasing stress, and impacting work life balance. So I brought together two toolkits to create a different way of working:

AI tools for teachers – generative AI for lesson planning, feedback, and marking that takes hours off your week.
Evidence-based workload and time management frameworks – practical scripts, PPA time strategies, and systems to protect your contracted hours (and your sanity).

PPA Buddy is more than an AI lesson planner. It’s a complete teacher workload solution and your professional ally for saying no to overload, yes to impact, and still walking out of school on time.

My Journey: From high-stakes boardrooms to bustling classrooms — and the balancing act that followed.

The fast-paced world of product design taught me efficiency, influence, and unshakable boundaries. Those tactics now help UK teachers reduce workload, reclaim evenings, and improve wellbeing.

I battled the same overload as you and built a framework to beat it.

Standing in the classroom, I felt the reality first-hand: relentless marking, planning that stretched into weekends, and constant pressure from all directions. I know the symptoms of teacher burnout because I’ve lived them; anxiety, sleepless nights, and the creeping feeling that your work is swallowing your life.

Why PPA Buddy exists

I didn’t build PPA Buddy as an outsider looking in. I built it as a colleague and fellow educator who’s navigated these challenges. It’s here to help you:

Use effective PPA time strategies so your planning happens in minutes, not evenings.
Apply leadership-grade productivity tools, from inbox-zero routines, workload triage, and boundary-setting scripts, that stop unnecessary tasks before they land on your desk.
Access teacher wellbeing resources to protect your mental health and sustain your teaching career.

PPA Buddy: Pioneering the Balance – Dedicated to Teaching, Committed to Living.

We believe in delivering outstanding lessons within contracted hours and protecting your energy for the life you live beyond the school gates.

Ready to lead with authority, not exhaustion?

Join a growing community of UK educators taking back control of their time and saying no to burnout. Because we’re not just teachers, we’re human beings, and we deserve to live fully and joyfully.

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