José Picardo

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

Five Things Every School Can Do to Improve: Reflections from the Frontline Each August, as another exam season comes to an end, I look to celebrate the wins and study the losses. I try to resist the temptation to sit back in the comfort of the staffroom armchair and pass jud...

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Beyond the Device - Azimuth Education Expert education consultancy for schools, EdTech companies, and organisations—supporting strategic planning, leadership development, and lasting improvement.

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

Leadership Compass | Discover Your Leadership Style Identify your dominant leadership styles and assess your practice health with our research-backed Leadership Compass questionnaire based on Goleman's framework

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.
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Rethinking Pedagogy First? - Azimuth Education A reflection on the meaning of “pedagogy first” in classroom technology integration. Critiques the straw-man arguments against it, contrasts it with ideas like entangled pedagogy, and argues that proc...

“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.
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Study Partner or Shortcut? How Students Really Use AI - Azimuth Partners Ltd Discover how GCSE and A Level students use AI as a study partner, not a shortcut, and what this means for schools shaping guidance and policy.

One for school leaders👇

Study Partner or Shortcut? How Students Really Use AI
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It is achievable. The question is whether the effort required is worthwhile. And the bananarama principle would apply.

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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).
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From elsewhere on my blog. You see? Stand down, soldier. We're not storming the beecheas just yet...
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Here’s the full paragraph for context. Have you heard of reported speech?

Logical fallacies aren’t cogent. You can tilt at windmills all you like. But on your own. I’m off to have a nice evening. Come back when you can tell me where I said the things you said I said.

Wow. Read it again. Where am I parroting the line that cognitive offloading is making people dumber? I’d thought the piece is a little more nuanced than that, even for those in search of a straw man! 😊

Some are some less so. As they say: the future is already here, just not evenly distributed. I’m working on the distribution bit!

I think this or something like this is the only way. School is not just about learning subjects, important though that is, but also about teaching children how to be the best version of themselves so as to make the world a better place for everyone.

The STAR Framework: Teaching in the Age of AI - Azimuth Discover the STAR framework—Spark, Think, Act, Reflect—for integrating AI in education while keeping learning human, deep, and purposeful.

AI can amplify learning, but only if used wisely. The STAR framework (Spark, Think, Act, Reflect) helps schools harness AI while keeping learning human.
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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.

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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?

Probably. The constant push for more without acknowledging trade-offs can feel relentless, and it takes a real toll. Cakeism captures part of that dynamic, and it’s no surprise many colleagues feel squeezed out by it.

Here is the link to the full article. Let me know what you think! 😀 www.azimuth.org.uk/cakeism-and-...

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.

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🎓 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. 😊

Education should value the experience and care that all teachers bring. Schools are made richer by diversity, not just in people, but in approaches to teaching too. We need to do better at recognising that.

Crikey. It’s terrible when something you pursued to become a better teacher ends up being used against you.

The fact that your students have thrived says a lot and I hope, in time, that gets recognised more widely.

🎓 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. 😊

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