Progress 8 is fast becoming the new accountability currency in secondary education in England. There is actually much to commend this measure and schools are slowly but surely beginning to understand the benefits of it over many that have gone before. In a previous post, Update #Progress 8 May Just be a #Gamechanger, I looked at the potential ways in which the new measure could fundamentally change how we view accountability within our education system. Continue reading
I was really pleased when Ros McMullen asked whether I could attend a @HeadsRoundtable Meeting following a New Year blog post “Ofsted Get it Right for Once … Oh No They Didn’t”. This is a summary of a short presentation prepared for the meeting at Huntington School in York, hosted by John Tomsett. Continue reading
The term distributed leadership has now become a bit of a mantra in education. According to many of us, in leadership positions, we are distributing leadership all the time. I sometimes wonder how many people in our schools or organisations would agree. Benevolent dictatorship was a style I felt I mastered pretty easily and employed very well but distributing leadership has been quite a challenge. Continue reading