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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...
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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...
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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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