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In defence of accountability

Mar 19, 2023 | Category: leadership

This weekend saw Joe Kirby publish a thoughtful blog in which he calls for an end to Quality Assurance. I agree with Joe's analysis of the causes of poor accountability - or QA - but not his suggested...

#accountability #quality assurance

GCSE reform: a modest proposal

May 30, 2020 | Category: assessment

The pandemic has cast many assumptions about how education could or should unfold into sharp relief. Like many others, I've been wondering about the positives we might find in our current situation an...

#GCSEs #accountability #Becky Allen

How can school inspection get what it wants?

Feb 10, 2017 | Category: leadership

I read a great piece by Dr Becky Allen in Schools Week this morning on inherent unreliability of school inspections. In it she makes the point that human beings are incapable of making reliable, high...

#Ofsted #accountability #Becky Allen #school inspection

The melody of education: what should we be accountable for?

Oct 06, 2015 | Category: leadership

Not every end is a goal. The end of a melody is not its goal; but nonetheless, if the melody had not reached its end, it would not have reached its goal. A parable.Nietzsche This is the third in...

#accountability #Eric Kalenze #purpose of education

Intelligent Accountability

Oct 04, 2015 | Category: Featured

The history of human growth is at the same time the history of every new idea heralding the approach of a brighter dawn, and the brighter dawn has always been considered illegal, outside of the law....

#Daniel Willingham #accountability #Roger Scruton

Trust, accountability and why we need them both

Apr 29, 2015 | Category: leadership

I've been thinking a lot about trust in recent months - particularly because it seems a commodity in such short supply. If, my optimistic thinking went, teachers were trusted to do a good job, then th...

#accountability #trust

How could we improve accountability?

Mar 23, 2015 | Category: Featured

If accountability is the solution, what's the problem?It's become axiomatic that you can't remove accountability from education and that teachers must always be held to account. Why? Because they're f...

#accountability #performance management

What if we started trusting teachers?

Nov 22, 2014 | Category: leadership

Who would not rather trust and be deceived? - Eliza Cook The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him. - Henry Lewis Stimson I've been out of the classroom for just under a year now. In...

#Ofsted #accountability #surplus model #Grace Murray Hopper #trust

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