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What KCSIE 2026 means for your school digital strategy

AI has arrived in statutory safeguarding guidance. Compliance with KCSIE 2026 is the floor; your digital strategy is the ceiling, and only you can set it.

José Picardo8 July, 2026

Digital Strategy & AI Leadership & Coaching

Caution as Method: A Wiser Way to Bring AI into School

With no firm evidence that AI helps children learn or that it harms them, a classroom ban cannot be the evidence-led choice it claims to be. The honest response is…

José Picardo28 June, 2026

Digital Strategy & AI Leadership & Coaching

Efficiency Is the Wrong Question: Leading AI in Schools

Technology rarely changes one big thing. It changes plenty of small ones, spread across how your staff already work, which is why leading AI well comes down to better thinking,…

José Picardo26 June, 2026

Leadership & Coaching

What ISI’s inspection reports reveal about teaching and learning in independent schools

Teaching is the finding ISI raises most often, and almost never the one that fails a school. After going through 395 of this academic year’s routine inspection reports, here is…

José Picardo19 June, 2026

Digital Strategy & AI Leadership & Coaching

Banning Social Media for Under-16s: Are We Measuring the Right Thing?

The government’s ban on social media for under-16s is designed to succeed on its own terms. Whether it actually does anything for children is a separate question, and the evidence…

José Picardo16 June, 2026

Leadership & Coaching

You cannot signpost your way to a significant strength

What 395 ISI inspection reports from the 2025-26 cycle reveal about the significant strength accolade, and why the work towards one starts the morning after your last inspection. Published as…

José Picardo13 June, 2026