Coaching School Leaders
Submitted by paul crisp on Tue, 02/07/2019 - 22:26Coaching IS leadership in multi-school groups
The Evidence People
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What makes for effective CPDL - Consensus or complexity?
Submitted by paul crisp on Fri, 21/09/2018 - 01:53Is the Developing Great Teaching systematic review a cornerstone in an edifice of error, a key component of a mistaken ‘consensus’ around the evidence about effective teacher professional development and learning?
This is what Harry Fletcher-Wood Sam Sims assert in their piece in the TES on 21st September – [on-line here] and their more detailed article.
The Christmas Blog 2017
Submitted by paul crisp on Fri, 15/12/2017 - 17:22The Christmas Blog
Binge CPD-ing - impact of the flurry of Government CPD funding streams
Submitted by paul crisp on Wed, 15/11/2017 - 14:48
The Xmas Blog 2016
Submitted by paul crisp on Tue, 13/12/2016 - 17:24
Hang on, I hear you say, haven’t I just had an e-news from you? Yes you have, we have sheepishly to reply. But that was the regular end of term communiqué full of serious and useful info. This, on the other hand, is the Xmas edition, light hearted and full of cheer! And I am going to try really hard to put an optimistic spin on escaping from the dark and turbulent 2016 into the sunny uplands of 2017. Let me know how I make out.
The trouble with exams
Submitted by paul crisp on Tue, 17/04/2012 - 19:12I am intrigued by the recent attack on A Levels by Michael Gove. For me (though not necessarily for Mr Gove), it links back to the big fuss around the 'scandal' of exam boards briefing teachers on the content of future papers. Those getting aerated about exam papers were, I contend, demonstrating lack of contact with the real world. My fundamental thesis - which I am alarmed to see is apparently shared by the Secretary of State - is that we try to achieve too many mutually exclusive outcomes with the exam system and a spot of rationalisation is needed for the system to hit any.