José Picardo
@josepicardo.bsky.social
Experienced school leader | Education consultant | Helping schools, educators & organisations to lead with clarity, teach with impact, and grow with purpose.
@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! 🎂
November 8, 2025 at 10:06 AM
@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...
October 28, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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
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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October 28, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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 👇
October 27, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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
Get an instant radar chart, a leadership health slider, and expert feedback in one minute.
👉 Try it : compass.azimuth.org.uk
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
compass.azimuth.org.uk
October 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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
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...
New blog 👇 www.azimuth.org.uk/rethinking-p...
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...
www.azimuth.org.uk
September 30, 2025 at 3:54 PM
“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...
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...
Study Partner or Shortcut? How Students Really Use AI
www.azimuth.org.uk/study-partne...
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.
www.azimuth.org.uk
September 27, 2025 at 12:33 PM
One for school leaders👇
Study Partner or Shortcut? How Students Really Use AI
www.azimuth.org.uk/study-partne...
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...
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...
September 11, 2025 at 12:38 PM
🚨 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...
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...
Download the summary PDF + full article here 👉 www.azimuth.org.uk/the-star-fra...
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.
www.azimuth.org.uk
August 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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...
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.
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.
August 21, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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.
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?
#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?
August 20, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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?
#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-...
Read more: www.azimuth.org.uk/20-signs-of-...
August 20, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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-...
Read more: www.azimuth.org.uk/20-signs-of-...
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?
Is this your experience?
August 16, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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?
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 👇
Does this sound familiar?
We rarely talk about the unacknowledged trade-offs at its core.
🔗Link to full article in the replies 👇
August 15, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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 👇
Does this sound familiar?
We rarely talk about the unacknowledged trade-offs at its core.
🔗Link to full article in the replies 👇
Reposted by José Picardo
🎓 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. 😊
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. 😊
July 6, 2025 at 12:49 PM
🎓 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. 😊
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. 😊
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. 😊
July 6, 2025 at 12:49 PM
🎓 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. 😊
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.
🤫 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.
July 3, 2025 at 3:57 PM
🧠 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.
🤫 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...
June 24, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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 fire is lit. What we do next matters. Some thoughts on the subject.
🔗 Link in replies.
June 23, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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 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
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
June 19, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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
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 👇
🧠 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 👇
June 17, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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 👇
🧠 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
I spoke about coaching, capacity, and why line management should be insight, not oversight.
Transcript + slides in blog.
👇 Link in comments.
#researched
June 9, 2025 at 1:52 PM
“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
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
Reflections from @hugheshaili.bsky.social's brilliant talk on instructional coaching at #BryanstonSummit.
🔗 Link in the comments.
#InstructionalCoaching #EdLeadership #CPD
June 9, 2025 at 1:47 PM
“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
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
🔗 Full post below. #edtech #AI #education #schoolleaders #leadership
June 2, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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
🔗 Full post below. #edtech #AI #education #schoolleaders #leadership