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Digital Strategy & AI

18 March, 2026

Listening to the Pessimists: The AI Adoption Strategy Most Schools Get Wrong

Many conversations about digital strategy in schools begin with the same questions: "what are the most innovative schools doing?" and "how do we do it too?" This seems reasonable. Benchmarking…

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Digital Strategy & AI

6 November, 2025

What Schools Get Wrong About Digital Strategy And How To Put It Right

Too often, schools treat technology and teaching as parallel tracks. But digital strategy isn’t about devices, it’s about designing the conditions in which great teaching thrives. Earlier this week, I…

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Leadership & Coaching

26 September, 2025

From Autonomy to Agency: The Missing Piece in School Leadership

Teachers have long aspired to autonomy as the hallmark of professional respect. Give us teachers autonomy, the argument goes, and we will flourish: freed from prescription, released from bureaucracy, and…

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Digital Strategy & AI

18 August, 2025

AI in schools: Between Hope and Hype – A Practical Strategy

Walk into any school staffroom or boardroom today and the conversation about AI will be mixed. Some colleagues may roll their eyes at the latest “game-changing” technology, already bracing themselves…

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Digital Strategy & AI

18 June, 2025

The Wars We Don’t See Coming

In geopolitics, it’s often said that generals are always preparing to fight the last war. One of the most infamous examples was the Maginot line in Eastern France: a vast…

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Digital Strategy & AI

22 April, 2025

From Purpose to Practice: Leading Technology Adoption in Schools

From Purpose to Practice is the latest in a growing set of free resources designed to support school leaders and educators in making thoughtful, purposeful decisions about how technology is used in teaching…

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