During the Lockdown, I wrote a blog about how school league tables should be reformed. joepardoe.com/post/pause-to-…

Please take a look if you’d like to apply to work in the School 21 music team! There is scope for a September start as well as May (or as soon as possible) so music teacher trainees or those looking for an end of year change welcome to apply too! #musicteacher Music Teachers Association

Can we give students more agency in school? Should we? What are the pros and cons? Is there a ‘Third Way’? joepardoe.com/post/can-pupil…

After a solid opening dress & totally EPIC Thursday night, it’s time for closing night of West Side Story 2024 School 21! It’s been another incredible effort and achievement by all. We will never stop breaking down barriers to ensure the arts can thrive in our community👊

Building a curriculum and pedagogical approach to create a culture of student independence and agency joepardoe.com/post/building-…

Listening to In Our Time about the Uncertainty Principle. What you choose to measure, changes how you see the world. Measuring quality of edu using only exams or exclusion rates etc misses a lot about what is good/bad and over-simplifies the complexities of educating human beings

Great session with schools, the local council and local employers today in Wales. Some great projects on the go! Excitingly, it was the debut of the book/ workbook I have been working on for 6months! So good to see it in action, great feedback and lots of ideas for draft 2…

Winner! RTM Grantee@school21_uk took home the top prize for "Outstanding School Music Dept" at the Music & Drama Education Awards 2024 ⁠🏆 ⁠ A win for them is a in for us! Massive shout out to Emily Crowhurst and all the team School 21 for hitting it out of the park every time 👏

It’s SEF and SDP term, I hope this book can help in some way. John Catt Educational from Hachette Learning

Building a musical community and building a community around music is central to the work of our music team (& others) School 21 Proud to work here, and with families in Newham. A few reflections on the last decade in new issue of Music Teacher musicteachermagazine.co.uk/features/artic…

The 7th year of our Band Project Programme and we are celebrating hundreds of children’s achievements in this year’s gala concert, inc our founding cohort, who just took their final music GCSE music exam! So proud that ALL our students get this opportunity- music changes lives 🙌

Does anyone know if there is any training / support available (aimed at teachers) to help them to communicate effectively with parents/carers?

If you’re serious Keir Starmer then a good start would be talking to passionate, expert music teachers & leaders who are already doing this and working strategically with them to make it happen everywhere The Labour Party Bridget Phillipson

Great to see this finally out in the world! School 21 choir loved recording for this global project. Then age 9, now 17- one of many authentic experiences of music whilst at school 🎧Music enhances every life it touches weareharmonyUK AIR facebook.com/share/v/12DBMK…

My piece in the Observer today about how we need to properly listen to and understand Trump supporters if we are to move forward. ALASTAIR CAMPBELL Rory Stewart Robert Peston robert shrimsley theguardian.com/commentisfree/…