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On behaviour

Mar 20, 2014 | Category: leadership

Most of what makes classrooms work lies beneath the surface. The here and now of lessons and classrooms is dependent on the routines and relationships teachers have forged over time. If you’re clear a...

#behaviour

What if there was no outstanding?

Mar 16, 2014 | Category: leadership

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.H.L. Mencken Does the outstanding grade retard innovation or drive us towards excellence?This is just a flight of fancy; a thought experiment. What would hap...

#motivation #Joe Kirby #outstanding

An inconvenient truth? The surplus model of school improvement

Feb 23, 2014 | Category: leadership

Schools often seem to be run on a 'deficit model': "this attributes scepticism or hostility to a lack of understanding, resulting from a lack of information. It is associated with a division between '...

#Dylan Wiliam #school improvement #John Tomsett #Tom Sherrington #Liam Collins #accountability #Chris Moyse

Making data meaningful: Pen Portraits

Oct 13, 2013 | Category: leadership

Most of what makes classrooms work is invisible. The activities that teachers and students enact are, by and large, irrelevant. I'm aware that this runs the risk of sounding like preposterous nonsense...

#Clevedon School #data #inclusion #Pen Portraits #targets

Why can't we tell a good teacher through lesson observations?

Aug 23, 2013 | Category: leadership

No teacher is so good - or so bad - that he or she cannot improve. Dylan Wiliam The English education system is obsessed with ascertaining the quality of teachers. And what with the great and the good...

#lesson observations #Dylan Wiliam #Graham Nuthall

A model lesson? Part 1: routines vs gimmicks

Sep 08, 2013 | Category: leadership

It's been a busy week this week. What with starting at a new school, getting up before 5 to drive two hours on Monday morning, living an Alan Partridge-esque existence in a particularly horrific Trave...

#Dylan Wiliam #questioning #Pose Pause Pounce Bounce #Kris Boulton #Doug Lemov #bell work #routines

Of cabbages, round tables and kings

Nov 03, 2012 | Category: leadership

Back in the day King Arthur had a problem. Bickering barons made a great deal of fuss about who was the biggest cheese. When they sat down together for a friendly chat things soon came to head becaus...

#Ofsted #Exams #Headteachers' Roundtable #King Arthur

How not to improve a school

Apr 21, 2012 | Category: leadership

Everyone agrees that 'lasting and sustaining improvement in student outcomes' is a good thing and there's little doubt that we should also seek to narrow the gap in achievement between different group...

#Dylan Wiliam #John Hattie #Ben Levin #school improvement #Sutton Trust

High Performers

Mar 04, 2012 | Category: leadership

The postman delivered High Performers - The Secrets of Successful Schools by Alistair Smith this week. For anyone who's not read it, the book contains bucket loads of wisdom and tons of practical advi...

#leadership #Alistair Smith #middle leaders #teachers

But is it art? The art of teaching

Nov 05, 2011 | Category: leadership

[caption id="attachment_640" align="alignright" width="147"] No. 5 - Jackson Pollock[/caption]I'm a big fan of art. I wouldn't claim to know a lot about it, but it speaks to me. Whether it's standing,...

#Carol Dweck #Dan Pink #art #Life Hacker #Seth Godin #wordsearches