Thinking
The latest thinking from our team of experts and our community of frontline educators.
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Designing a curriculum that can help to bridge the attainment gap
Assistant headteachers Robyn and Louise tell us how they've used curriculum to help close the attainment gap.
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Balancing formal and informal knowledge
Manjit More explains how he pursued "expert common sense" through a balance of formal and informal knowledge.
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Continuing school improvement during school reopenings
Nimish Lad breaks down curriculum, middle leadership development, and embedding change in the midst of a pandemic.
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Tackling culture and resources as a new head
Principal Jenny Nimmo discusses how addressing the persistent problems in her school transformed Potterspury Lodge into one of the highest performing special schools in the South East of England.
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So you want to be a CEO? The journey from headship to system leadership
This is an exclusive extract from the new book ‘Leading Academy Trusts: Why some fail, but most don’t’ by Sir David Carter with Laura McInerney. This extract is from Chapter 2, which charts the evolving landscape of school and system leadership and explores what this means for aspiring multi-academy trust CEOs.
