Episode 10 · The Reckoning
10 September 2026
Jo Stone
PedTech Lead, Discovery Schools Trust
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“Jo Stone has been making education technology work across real schools since 2011. She has seen every hype cycle. She knows which companies survived contact with a classroom — and which ones didn’t.”
Jo Stone is PedTech Lead at Discovery Schools Trust, overseeing education technology implementation across 20 schools and 8,000 pupils. She has navigated multiple waves of supplier promise, pandemic-era acceleration, and the AI boom that followed. She does not romanticise any of it.
In This Episode
- What fifteen years of education technology implementation across a multi-school trust actually teaches you
- Which products consistently earn genuine adoption — and which generate compliance, not use
- What Jo wishes suppliers understood before they walked through the door
- What a genuinely useful supplier partnership looks like from the school side
