About

Dan Misra has spent a decade working with the texts at the centre of the NSW senior English curriculum. He is the publisher of annotated editions of Macbeth, Frankenstein, Henry IV Part 1, and other canonical works used in Stage 6 classrooms, and the author of two books on AI and English teaching, including Stop Teaching English Like It's 1995.

His work on AI-resilient assessment grew out of a specific observation: when AI arrived in classrooms, it did not create a new problem. It exposed one that was already there. The essay had always measured a student's ability to produce a form, not to think. AI simply made that distinction impossible to ignore.

The AI-Resilient Assessment Design framework developed through Austi Academy draws on that textual background. It is not a generic digital literacy program. It is built for English teachers working with set texts in Stage 6, and each of the five approaches in the framework is grounded in what those texts actually ask students to do.

Dan has presented this work through the English Teachers Association of NSW and has delivered professional learning to senior English faculties across Sydney. Austi Academy's free guide, AI-Resilient Assessment Design, has been downloaded by teachers in NSW and beyond.

For inquiries about in-school workshops and in-service delivery, email dan@austi.org.