Make Learning Real - Make Today Matter
I help schools design and deliver authentic, purposeful learning projects that connect students to the world beyond the classroom
Too often, what we learn in school can feel disconnected from our lives and communities.
Many students can’t see the point of what they’re learning.
Teachers feel stuck between accountability pressures and creative ambitions.
And schools are under pressure to engage the community while delivering results.
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I can help you bring learning to life — with projects that develop knowledge, skills and purpose, all rooted in your local context and aligned with your curriculum.
What I offer
Projects can be tailored to a specific group (e.g. disengaged learners), a whole year group, or as a pilot for long-term innovation.
I use my experience of delivering hundreds of these projects to help at all levels.
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Senior Leadership - How to make the case for these projects, how to support teachers effectively, how to build in structures (levers) for change and how to ensure high-quality outcomes.
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Middle Leadership - How to ensure curriculum content is covered rigorously, how to build in high-quality assessment and how to support the work on the ground.
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Class Teachers - How to plan, deliver and evaluate high-quality projects - becoming skilled in curriculum design, new pedagogical approaches and innovative assessment.
Why Work With Me?
My name is Joe Pardoe
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Nearly 20 years as a teacher, head of department and senior leader in charge of curriculum.
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Former Head of Curriculum and Assessment Innovation at School 21 - overseeing our authentic learning projects and our Real World Learning Programme (our innovative approach to work experience).
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Ex-Head of CPD at the Big Education Trust - leading training across school and nationally.
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Whole Education Award winner for my contribution to the development of Project Based Learning.
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Participated in the Education Select Committee's enquiry into how to make the curriculum more connected to careers.
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A flexible, pragmatic approach - not dogma and constraints, but grounded in the realities of the competing priorities of the school system.
Who is this for?
I have worked with a range of different organisations to deliver high-quality authentic real world learning. From entire Local Authorities, MATs and individual schools.
Local Authorites
I have worked with local authorities to plan projects across an entire region - with the aim of improving attendance and offering more connection to community and careers
Multi-Academy Trusts
I have worked with MATs to offer training across a network of schools and deliver innovative curriculum provision through subject departments
School / Leaders
I have worked with individual schools and headteachers who want to innovate the curriculum to solve particular problems related to their context.