As ever it was an odd twenty four hours on twitter; from comments about “not even a bus full” which I found infuriating and ill-considered, in equal measure, to the #nobservation hashtag. The latter amused me. With a bit more thought and empathy maybe it shouldn’t. Continue reading
A year on from when we stopped grading individual lessons I’m wondering how much progress we have made. Just before the summer I reviewed our new process for evaluating the quality of teaching, with middle leaders, and made a number of tweaks to the system though no substantive changes were suggested. Continue reading