Data Wall – EM
The data display I have referred to most often recently is our Data Wall. It is far from complicated on the surface to understand, though there is plenty of Excel wizardry behind the scenes to make it work. Both the …
Leadership
Outlining vision and leading strategy
GCSE ebacc chance graphs
With the release of the interactive transition matrices last week, the breaks in the weekend was spent investigating the national data sets. Trying to learn from what the data was telling us.* Curious where the borderline C grades were achieved, …
Adding meaning to Pisa
This post is for any school leader or data enthusiasts with a quirky interest in macro education data. Most dataheads are comfortable with school and even national data. Andreas Schleicher, Special Advisor on Education Policy to OECD’s Secretary-General, is comfortable …
Ofsted – horizons
It is easy, for instance, to mistake commitment for accomplishment and enthusiasm for excellence. They are not the same. – Sir Micheal Wilshaw My experience of the last two Ofsted inspections has been largely positive. The inspection teams were open, …
Due north – curriculum reform and accountability
There are a handful of blogs posts, from established school leaders and interested parties reviewing curriculum planning at the moment, here and here. It is that time of year. Options evening are being scheduled, Assistant and Deputy Headteachers / Principals are …
Reporting to parents
With just six reporting cycles under my belt at The Wellington Academy, this term saw the release of Progress Reports to all seven year groups, within days of the term coming to end. Reflecting back over this process, I hoped might just …
Comparable outcomes, comparable performance
Given it is exam season is approaching and back channel conversations will no doubt seen revisit the issue of comparable outcomes and comparable performance, I thought that I would refresh my think and understanding. I am sure it will be …
Retrieval more important than revision
At the back end of January 2011 I was reading the research findings by Jeffrey D. Karpicke, Assistant Professor of Psychological Sciences at Purdue. In a nutshell, Karpicke’s research shows that practising retrieval is an even more effective strategy than …