CEO & Executive Headteacher of the Cornerstone Academy Trust
Jonathan Bishop is CEO and Executive Headteacher of the Cornerstone Academy Trust. With the 4 schools within the Trust as Microsoft Schools and as a Microsoft Innovative Educator, Jonathan pioneered the use of digital technologies in the classroom for many years. His schools employ the use of one-to-one Microsoft Surfaces to deliver a project-based curriculum that fully utilises the power of Microsoft365 tools.

He runs the Global Enterprise Challenge with thousands of children working together in teams to run a company, collaborating and competing to make their ideas the most successful globally. Digital technologies underpin the management of the Academy Trust, the collaboration between staff and the teaching and learning; at school and beyond the school day.

Cornerstone has recently opened a new school, Monkerton Community Primary School which achieved an outstanding judgement in its first Ofsted inspection before moving into its new buildings. Like all schools in the Trust, there are one-to-one devices for pupils, digitally enabled, media rich classrooms and ed-tech underpins everything within the Trust’s teaching and learning, back office functions and effective leadership of schools. The Trust has also sponsored a school in Barnstaple in North Devon and has extended the approach to operate via the principle of one school, 4 campuses, where the digital tools enable this to become a reality.

Jonathan also leads the Cornerstone Teaching School which is responsible for a number of Hubs including the English Hub, Behaviour Hub, Computing Hub and Science Learning Partnership. Jonathan is also a member of various working parties such as the English Hub Council and has worked with DfE to support the development of training materials and EdTech policy.