My wife is a supply teacher and this week, the day before she went in to teach, she found the school was being inspected. My wife’s recollection of the impact of a pending inspection, from when she was full-time, was in line with what she was hearing from the staff at...

Education is changing, and rapidly.

Okay, that’s not news, but for anyone who thinks this is almost over, think again. It gives me no pleasure in saying that we are still experiencing ‘cause’ and the ‘effect’ is in its early stages.

Some would say education didn’t need t...

It might be tempting to see performance management as an irksome box-ticking task. However, if it is planned in the right way and built on some solid guiding principles, it can be a real driver of school improvement, providing you with a framework for translating your...

Getting every professional in a school to contribute to improvement will deliver real gains for pupils but significant barriers, such as accountability pressures, need to be overcome...

Today the reality is that if schools are going to fully realise their ambitions, leadership has to be at the very core of the organisation, and this can't happen unless professionals at every level are given the opportunity to have a direct impact on school improve...