Six Damaging Metaphors We Use In Schools, And How to Avoid Them Schools run on stories. I get that. I once worked with a headteacher who began assemblies by saying, “What I am about to tell you never happened, but it is true nonetheless.” He was signalling that what followed was not meant as…

What do students think about #artificialintelligence? How are young people looking at AI? How are they using it for learning? @josepicardo.bsky.social explains why banning AI in #education is simply not an option & offers 5 recommendations for #schools: buff.ly/iNd0l5a #teaching #edusky

What do students think about #artificialintelligence? How are young people looking at AI? How are they using it for learning? @josepicardo.bsky.social explains why banning AI in #education is simply not an option & offers 5 recommendations for #schools: buff.ly/iNd0l5a #teaching #edusky

What do students think about #artificialintelligence? How are young people looking at AI? How are they using it for learning? @josepicardo.bsky.social explains why banning AI in #education is simply not an option & offers 5 recommendations for #schools: buff.ly/f4Qw6hP #teaching #edusky

What do students think about #artificialintelligence? How are young people looking at AI? How are they using it for learning? @josepicardo.bsky.social explains why banning AI in #education is simply not an option & offers 5 recommendations for #schools: buff.ly/f4Qw6hP #teaching #edusky

What do students think about #artificialintelligence? How are young people looking at AI? How are they using it for learning? @josepicardo.bsky.social explains why banning AI in #education is simply not an option & offers 5 recommendations for #schools: buff.ly/f4Qw6hP #teaching #edusky

@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social @rory-stewart.bsky.social My partner Ulrike and I are really looking forward to seeing you both tomorrow in Bournemouth. You’re her birthday treat! 🎂

From Dots to Thinking: How Knowledge Shapes Critical Thought www.azimuth.org.uk/from-dots-to...

Check out my article: Five Things Every School Can Do to Improve: Reflections from the Frontline www.linkedin.com/pulse/five-t... via @LinkedIn

If you’re leading digital strategy in a school, this one’s for you. Link in replies 👇

The Leadership Compass is a free tool that maps your leadership styles and shows where your habits sit on the Healthy ↔ Toxic spectrum. Get an instant radar chart, a leadership health slider, and expert feedback in one minute. 👉 Try it : compass.azimuth.org.uk

“Pedagogy first” isn’t about rejecting innovation. It’s about priority: learning happens in people, not in devices. Tools come and go, but the processes of teaching and learning endure. New blog 👇 www.azimuth.org.uk/rethinking-p...

One for school leaders👇 Study Partner or Shortcut? How Students Really Use AI www.azimuth.org.uk/study-partne...

🚨 One-off webinar, limited places! Beyond the Device: Building a Digital Strategy that Puts Learning First 📅 4 November 🕓 16:30 GMT For school leaders & educators who want clarity, confidence & purpose in digital adoption (inc. AI). 🎟️ Register: www.azimuth.org.uk/beyond-the-d...

AI can amplify learning, but only if used wisely. The STAR framework (Spark, Think, Act, Reflect) helps schools harness AI while keeping learning human. Download the summary PDF + full article here 👉 www.azimuth.org.uk/the-star-fra...

Daily #thoughtlet The best leaders cultivate successors, not followers. Their success is not measured by being indispensable, but by how well others flourish in their absence. A true legacy is capacity, not dependency. Leadership is about growing people, not reliance.

Daily #Thoughtlet #Leadership is contagious. Good or bad, your style ripples through an organisation. If you shadowed yourself for a week, would you want to catch what you’re spreading?

Good leadership requires emotional maturity. From forgiving without excusing to balancing compassion with accountability, here are 20 signs that mark out leaders we can trust. Read more: www.azimuth.org.uk/20-signs-of-...

AI in schools sits between hype and hope. School teachers, leaders, and students need clarity. Here’s a simple 6-point strategy to guide purposeful, human-centred use of AI. 📍Poster below and link to full article in replies👇 #EdTech #AI #EduAI

Saturday morning thought: most teachers don’t resist technology; they resist *new* technology and the challenge it initially brings. Once it’s mundane, it stops being “tech” and becomes just “how we work.” Is this your experience?

In schools, pressure leads to bold drives, strain erodes other priorities, counter-measures shift the focus… and round we go. Does this sound familiar? We rarely talk about the unacknowledged trade-offs at its core. 🔗Link to full article in the replies 👇

🎓 Can’t have it both ways. We say we want teachers to engage with research. But when they do and write about their experience they’re dismissed. We can’t champion evidence-informed practice and then complain teachers are doing precisely as we wanted. 😊

🎓 Can’t have it both ways. We say we want teachers to engage with research. But when they do and write about their experience they’re dismissed. We can’t champion evidence-informed practice and then complain teachers are doing precisely as we wanted. 😊

🧠 Not all quick thinkers are strategic. 🤫 Not all quiet ones are lacking insight. Introducing the Latency–Depth Leadership Matrix: a new way to understand how speed and substance shape school leadership.

We told kids coding was the future. Now many computer science graduates can’t find jobs. Education shouldn’t chase fads, it should prepare children for the present, giving them the knowledge to shape their future, not the one we imagine for them. www.azimuth.org.uk/ai-coding-an...

From the printing press to the digital revolution, history shows that innovation often walks hand in hand with disruption and conflict. 🔥 The fire is lit. What we do next matters. Some thoughts on the subject. 🔗 Link in replies.

The Wars We Don’t See Coming In education, we’re still preparing for yesterday’s wars. In doing so we're blindsided by the real battles: 🧠 Attention 🤝 Trust 🤖 AI 🌐 Unbundling of education 🧭 (Un)Employment 🧵 Blog in replies. #edchat #futureofeducation #AI

Two new posters now live: 🧠 Questions to support learning 💬 Questions for pastoral conversations Thoughtful prompts to help students reflect, grow, and take ownership. See replies for full blog + free downloads 👇

“When leadership stops being done to you and starts being done with you.” from my #rEDBournemouth talk I spoke about coaching, capacity, and why line management should be insight, not oversight. Transcript + slides in blog. 👇 Link in comments. #researched

“Teachers need to be done with, not done to.” Reflections from @hugheshaili.bsky.social's brilliant talk on instructional coaching at #BryanstonSummit. 🔗 Link in the comments. #InstructionalCoaching #EdLeadership #CPD

Have you seen this before? Urging teachers to adopt AI or else is clearly not a good strategy. Sustainable change starts with trust, not threats of obsolesence. 🔗 Full post below. #edtech #AI #education #schoolleaders #leadership

Why do some classrooms just work? It’s not magic. It’s trust, clarity, and high expectations. My latest blog explores how the SCARF model helps us build classrooms where learning sticks. 🧠👩‍🏫 Full article in the comments.👇

Why do some classrooms just work? It’s not magic. It’s trust, clarity, and high expectations. My latest blog explores how the SCARF model helps us build classrooms where learning sticks. 🧠👩‍🏫 Full article in the comments.👇

Somewhat reassuring, given Heath’s record on being right on stuff.

Just published: two free posters to support better questioning and deeper thought in the classroom. Practical prompts, reframing strategies, and a focus on getting kids to think.

Just published: two free posters to support better questioning and deeper thought in the classroom. Practical prompts, reframing strategies, and a focus on getting kids to think.

If machies do all the thinking, it’s machines that get more intelligent. Cognitive offloading has its place, but not at the cost of human thought. A new resource for teachers on how better questioning can protect generative thinking in the age of AI. 🔗 Link in the comments

How does learning really happen? This postersummarises how cognitive science can help us unlock deeper learning in the classroom. Clear, practical, and research-informed through the work of @carlhendrick.substack.com Link in next post.

From exercise book to operating system? Are we transforming learning, or just retooling it? A new post exploring how teaching strategy has evolved from paper to platforms to AI. Link in next post. #edtech #AIineducation #teaching #learning #schools #digitalstrategy

How Learning Really Happens: Unlocking the Power of Cognitive Science in the Classroom What if we could teach more effectively by understanding how learning truly works? That was the guiding question behind a recent McGraw Hill webinar led by Dr Carl Hendrick, a teacher, researcher, and co-author…

Beyond the Device: Prompts to guide a digital strategy that puts learning first This downloadable resource is designed to help school leaders and digital strategy leads take a clear, structured approach to aligning technology use with teaching and learning priorities. Too often, digital strategies…

AI Is Changing Education (Again) The recent Your Undivided Attention podcast, featuring Tristan Harris, Daniel Barcay, Maryanne Wolf, and Rebecca Winthrop, explores the challenges and opportunities that artificial intelligence presents to education. It is a timely and thoughtful discussion,…

Ten Signs of a Truly Healthy School Culture — Not Just a High-Performing One I find it peculiarly ironic that institutions devoted so passionately to the development of young minds can, all too easily, lose sight of the conditions that nurture the adults who run the place. We rightly worry about…

Teaching at the Speed of Hype: What AI can learn from Web 2.0 Every so often, education is promised transformation. Not reform, not improvement — but revolution. I’m just about young enough to remember the mid-2000s, when Web 2.0 arrived with all the promise it carried: blogs, wikis, social media,…

Beware the Octopus Head: Why Control Isn’t the Same as Leadership While this reflection is grounded in school leadership—where I have worked and coached for many years—the dynamics described here echo more widely, across organisations, sectors and hierarchies. Wherever leadership is mythologised,…

Beware the Octopus Head: Why Control Isn’t the Same as Leadership While this reflection is grounded in school leadership—where I have worked and coached for many years—the dynamics described here echo more widely, across organisations, sectors and hierarchies. Wherever leadership is mythologised,…

Teaching at the Speed of Hype: What AI can learn from Web 2.0 Every so often, education is promised transformation. Not reform, not improvement — but revolution. I’m just about young enough to remember the mid-2000s, when Web 2.0 arrived with all the promise it carried: blogs, wikis, social media,…

Clarity, Culture, and Complexity: Making Sense of the DfE’s Research Agenda In April 2025, the Department for Education published an updated Areas of Research Interest paper — a significant document not just for researchers, but for school and system leaders. It offers a clear signal of the…

🌞 Edapt's April Policy Insights is out now 👇 bit.ly/Policyinsights 👨‍🏫What happened at the union conferences, latest on TPS and analysing the Supreme Court's Ruling. ✏️ Including blog posts from @emmaturner75.bsky.social @josepicardo.bsky.social and @daniwalley.bsky.social alley.bsky.social

New free guide 📘 From Purpose to Practice is a compass for school leaders navigating technology in education. Pedagogy first. No gimmicks. Just clarity. 👇 Link in the comments #EdTech #SchoolLeadership #AIinEducation #DigitalStrategy #PedagogyFirst