Accountability

Analysing and Agonising Over Progress 8 #ThursdayThunk

The year’s started and there’s a more uncertain feel to it than most.  The new examinations system and associated point scores has produced the predicted turbulence, in reality and people’s minds.  Continue reading →

Time to Seriously Question Ofsted?

Speaking at the Headteachers’ Roundtable Summit in February 2017, I mooted the idea that someone would challenge Ofsted in the courts and that Durand Academy may well be the first.  They were already set on that course; now it has happened.  This post was written for the TES and was published on the 15th August 2017. Continue reading →

No Graded Lesson Obs, No EM Grades; New Hope? #rEDYork

The presentation for ResearchEd in York was about key priorities; what’s your 9 or 10/10 and Why?  Sitting behind this idea about key priorities was the need to fundamentally re-culture our schools and how our priorities, what we spend our time on, had changed.

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