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Are Assessment, Data and Tracking Systems Worth the Effort?
Back in September 2014, when the Trust formed, we started a big conversation about what assessment would look like in our post-levels world. The conversation just kept getting bigger as inter-related elements – teaching, learning, data collection, tracking, monitoring, accountability, reporting to parents and school improvement – were all brought to bear on our discussion and decisions. Continue reading
The Real Substance of Education
The debate over the “real substance of education” is inexorable. Some may view it as a broad and balanced curriculum; the most reliable metric is arguably a well-conceived set of standardised and externally assessed examinations. I differ, “the real substance of education” is the person and the people with the most reliable metric being a life well lived. Continue reading
It’s When Knowledge Rich Aligned with Evidence Rich Pedagogy
Going back over 20 years, when I was teaching full-time, the science curriculum seemed as knowledge rich as ever. The change over these 20 years has not been so much to the knowledge but to the understanding of how we can teach using evidence developed through disciplines like cognitive science. Continue reading
Leadership: Being, Knowing, Doing (New Book)
Liminal Leadership
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