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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...
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...
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 '...
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...
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