Whilst leaders don’t create a school’s culture all on their own they must play the major role in determining the destination, the type of school culture they believe is right, and keep moving colleagues in that direction. ResearchEd Scotland was a great opportunity to reflect on the schools’ journeys so far, on how much further we still needed to go and how best to travel forward together. Continue reading
You might not make a pig fatter by weighing it but assessment is more like pig racing. So went the entertaining analogy by Tim Luenig (@TimLeunig) Chief Analyst & Chief Scientific Adviser to the Department for Education and Associate Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics. Continue reading
Assessment is integral to curriculum design and delivery including at the class room level as teaching and learning … so starts the first draft of our new Assessment Policy. We attempting to nail the principles – there isn’t a +/- or a, b, c in sight. Continue reading