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…”we all want the same thing for children.” Well, it isn’t true, is it? “Everybody around this table wants the best [...]
June 14, 2018
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This morning, 60 beloved children at Christ the Sower, hard work and excellent teaching behind them, are starting to tackle the English and maths [...]
May 14, 2018
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This beautiful phrase comes in the middle of a short book review by Wendell Berry of a book by Harry Caudill entitled The Mountain, the Miner and [...]
April 20, 2018
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Over this weekend I have been rejoicing in reading the excellent Flip the System UK: A Teacher’s Manifesto whose central thesis, expressed [...]
April 17, 2018
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My friend Tom Macready regularly challenges us as school leaders to think from a communication perspective about our words and actions: the key [...]
March 18, 2018
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Yesterday at the Chartered College of Teachers conference in London, NATRE were represented. These guys, along with RE Today, are the prime [...]
February 18, 2018
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This graphic summarizes the day’s learning at the Chartered College of Teaching National Conference in Bishopsgate. Hopefully we will get [...]
February 18, 2018
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Five weeks of intensity at school have come to a screeching halt. If ever there was any evidence for OFSTED being a motor to school improvement [...]
February 11, 2018
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It seems only fair, after I scathingly dismissed the second consultation document on the new SIAMS proposals back in the autumn, that I celebrate [...]
January 15, 2018
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The TES reports UCAS’ data that there is a big drop in teacher recruitment this year, as measured by the large reduction in applicants for [...]
January 6, 2018