Thinking
The latest thinking from our team of experts and our community of frontline educators.
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New NPQ framework for early years leaders: four reasons to be excited
Research by the Education Policy Institute has found that 40% of the attainment gap is already evident by the age of five, making early years settings crucial for excellent, high-quality, early years education and care. In this blog, early years expert Rebecca Curtis reflects on early years leadership professional development provision and explores the new NPQEYL framework, from specificity to settings to the 'golden thread'.
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Leading literacy in schools: aims, challenges, and solutions
Sarah Bagshaw-McCormick unpicks what we know about leading literacy in schools, the challenges currently faced by literacy leaders in the sector, and possible professional development solutions.
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What is deliberate practice?
Steve Farndon unpacks what deliberate practice means and how it can be used to help you and your teachers
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What is school leadership?
In the first blog of a series which puts the concept of school leadership under the spotlight, Jennifer Barker and Tom Rees explore what school leadership is, and what the literature tells us.
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How flexible are NPQs?
We explore what is fixed about the new NPQs, what Ambition can do to build in flexibility, and why it requires a new mindset from participants.
