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Earned autonomy and shared responsibility

Jan 05, 2024 | Category: Featured

Having just gotten around to reading Matthew Evans' blog, The Earned Autonomy Trap, I feel moved to break my blogging silence of the past few months.In my book, Intelligent Accountability, I present e...

#school improvement #intelligent accountability #lead

Schools and the Tyranny of Merit

May 27, 2021 | Category: leadership

One of the books I read last year that has most stayed with me is Michael Sandel's The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good? In it, Sandel argues that meritocracy is inherently harmful t...

#intelligent accountability #meritocracy

Accountability

Nov 07, 2020 | Category: leadership

The following is a summary of Chapter 4 of my new book, Intelligent Accountability. What stops us from taking the risk and trusting teachers is, in part, the very real fear that some will cut corner...

#intelligent accountability #Lerner & Tetlock

Trust

Nov 03, 2020 | Category: leadership

The following is taken from chapter 3 of my new book, Intelligent Accountability. Confucius believed that three things were needed for a ruler to govern: weapons, food and trust. If a ruler is unabl...

#intelligent accountability #Onora O'Neill

The surplus model of school improvement

Nov 02, 2020 | Category: leadership

In chapter 2 of Intelligent Accountability I suggest that schools can operate either a surplus or deficit model of school improvement. Schools often seem to be run on a deficit model whereby any defic...

#surplus model #intelligent accountability

Why we need to embrace ignorance and learn to love uncertainty

Nov 01, 2020 | Category: leadership

The opening chapter of my book Intelligent Accountability is an attempt to clear the way of objections and obstacles in order to create the conditions for teachers to thrive. As such, I argue that sch...

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Should we give teachers the 'benefit of the doubt'?

Mar 03, 2017 | Category: leadership

Earlier in the week, Schools Minister, Lord Nash announced that schools should be more like businesses and jettison underperforming staff. According to this TES report he's reported to have said, "“I...

#Dylan Wiliam #intelligent accountability #Lord Nash

Less marking, more feedback: A challenge and a proposal

Dec 01, 2016 | Category: leadership

I've been arguing for some time that if teachers spent less time marking (by which I mean writing comments on students' work) then they might have a lot more time for giving meaningful feedback which...

#marking #feedback #intelligent accountability

"Works for me!" The problem with teachers' judgement

Oct 11, 2015 | Category: leadership

It is with our judgments as with our watches: no two go just alike, yet each believes his own. Alexander Pope One of the difficulties inherent in challenging teachers' judgments is that when those...

#Daniel Kahneman #intelligent accountability