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The surplus model of school improvement

Oct 15, 2014 | Category: leadership
As teachers we are sometimes guilty of assuming that all would be well if only children behaved better and worked harder. This is basically sound; everything would be better if kids did what was in th...
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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

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

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