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My Blog Manifesto
This post is merely a way to highlight the posts on my blog that, collectively, might represent a manifesto for change: 1. Reforming our Qualifications and Assessment Framework to provide a unifying,...
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Exam Reform. Another blog manifesto.
Blogs about examinations and assessment… I’ve written quite a few posts about exams and assessment in the last year. Some of the earlier ones were a bit of a rant; more recently, I think they are more...
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OfQual Insights: More thoughts on exams.
Exams are more complicated that we want to believe. This week I met Glenys Stacey, the CEO of OfQual. She’d invited me to share views about aspects of the examination system. I had previously met...
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ResearchEd 2013: What a day!
What a day! One of the best things about the ResearchED conference at Dulwich College was that it happened. It embodied the concept of a practitioner-led system perfectly. This is what ‘bottom-up’...
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The QTS Debate
Is there a forum for an intelligent debate these days? This week has seen yet another massively important issue tossed around in a cavalier fashion by politicians and media folk. It’s the...
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Taking Stock of the Education Agenda Part 2
Three of the Best…always challenging and inspiring I started writing this some time ago, taking stock of a range of educational issues based on various influences in the last year, not least of which...
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An Inside View of Exams: Messages from the Chief Regulator
Email from Glenys Stacey Last summer I had the opportunity to meet Glenys Stacey, Chief Regulator at OfQual. She contacted me after I’d written about exams on my blog and was keen to have an...
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Labour Education Policy: Let’s take a moment to think it through
Unfortunate Reporting – on many levels. Click for full report Being in opposition is a nightmare. You don’t have the resources of the DfE at your disposal to research ideas; it’s a shoestring affair....
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Trivium 21st C: Could this be the answer?
@SurrealAnarchy Martin Robinson’s wonderful book. CLICK to BUY I’ve just finished reading this wonderful book and, as I said on twitter, it’s the best education book I’ve read by far....
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Evaluating and Improving our Practice: A Paradigm Shift
Everything we think we know is up for grabs.. Is this an Einstein quote? No. In the last week, a series of events and meetings at my school signalled collectively that we’ve turned a corner with our...
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Towards a New Vision: for my school; for all schools.
Last week I was involved in three different events that were focused on trying to shape a new vision for education. A staff vision-building exercise at KEGS, looking ahead to 2020 The Headteachers’...
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Meeting OfSTED: The Game has Changed.
Left to right: @TomBennett71; @LearningSpy; @ClerkToGovernor; Mike Cladingbowl; @headguruteacher & @TeacherToolkit (18.2.14) This post follows on from the excellent accounts from David Didau...
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Keeping up with OfSTED’s Goalposts. What SLTs should do.
My blog post reporting on a bloggers’ meeting with OfSTED has gone crazy. My post on Thursday, Meeting OfSTED: The Game has Changed has blasted all my previous blog stats out of the water, heading for...
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Labour’s National Baccalaureate: Strong on Principles and Pragmatism
Labour Skills Task Force paper reported on the BBC this week. (Click to Download) Over the last year, I’ve been working with IoE Director, Chris Husbands, as a member of the Labour Skills Task Force;...
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Tackling Homophobia: RE GCSE – Not just a matter of conscience.
My RE GCSE marking crisis. This was RT’d repeatedly. Towards the end of last week, I experienced a minor crisis during an intense coincidence of events that raised questions about the values we...
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The Assessment Uncertainty Principle
In our system so much hangs on the value given to our assessments leading to qualifications. As we seek to measure learning with some degree of accuracy, we risk losing contact with the meaning of...
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Unleashing Greatness? Education Reform in Action
” You can mandate adequacy … greatness has to be unleashed” Joel Klein - via Sir Michael Barber Ever since I attended the London Festival of Education at the IoE in November 2012, I’ve had a sense...
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Sutton-Gates Teacher Development Summit. Part 1
Right now, I’m in Washington DC to take part in a two-day event sponsored (all expenses paid) by the Gates Foundation and the Sutton Trust. I’m one of 24 British Heads taking part, alongside my Heads...
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Sutton-Gates Summit Part 2: My Washington take-aways
On Tour with John Tomsett, Rob Coe, Tracy Smith, Sir Alasdair, Dame Alison, Jemima Reilly and The Trivium. A US teacher-recruitment advert. Why just make a living when you can make much more? Tweets...
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RSA Essays: Licensed to Create? Incentives for improving teacher quality.
Today, the RSA has published a collection of 10 essays on the theme of improving teacher quality and the concept of licensing. This has been, in part, stimulated by Tristram Hunt’s policy proposals....
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