- What are the team doing to release such magic?
- What is it that makes this school so fantastic?
- What can we learn from what is happening here?
Tuesday, 9 October 2012
BRILLIANT!
As someone who is always learning, I always ask myself questions after visiting brilliant schools; places whose learning journey has been simply amazing.
Monday, 8 October 2012
Saturday, 6 October 2012
Friday, 5 October 2012
Thursday, 4 October 2012
THE KEYS TO SUCCESS!
This afternoon, I did the keynote address at the 'Association for Achievement and Improvement through Assessment' Annual Meeting and Conference 2012 at the Marriott Hotel in Leeds.
NATIONAL POETRY DAY!
IF you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,...
MAKING THE EXTRAORDINARY COMMONPLACE!
I was in Sheffield again yesterday looking at the progress we are making with the Cutlers' "Made in Sheffield" programme and again discussion with colleagues focused on 'what works'. I don't know about you but I find it deeply depressing that the UK education system has one of the highest levels of variation in pupil outcomes of the world's industrialised economies, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
Tuesday, 2 October 2012
THE HOW OF HAPPINESS!
The University of California's professor of psychology Sonja Lyubomirsky has pioneered a detailed yet easy-to-follow plan to increase happiness in our day-to-day lives — in the short term and over the long term. Nothing new but great that her research supports the approach I've been working on over the last fifteen years.
THE FORGOTTEN HALF!
Having listened to Ed Miliband's speech this afternoon I was reminded of the DEMOS report 'The Forgotten Half' which suggested how we might create provision to meet the needs of those young people who aren't suited by the academic pathway from school to university.
THE QUALITY OF TEACHING MATTERS!
Interestingly, John Hattie's research suggests that only 30% of what makes a difference is in the hands of teachers.
Monday, 1 October 2012
THE MIRACLE!
"The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found
in their industry, application, and perseverance
under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit."
Mark Twain
WHAT WORKS BEST?
In Visible Learning, John Hattie has moved away from the 'What Works and What Doesn't' to look at which strategies work really well, and which have such a marginal effect that it is not worth the bother?
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