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Leadership
Outlining vision and leading strategy
FTT and the Creatives
Having only lead the use of data for learning a short period of time, I have already read, heard and felt a degree of distrust in the use of FFT for art and design and other creative subjects. At the …
Target Grade Matrix
Having spent some time understanding and sharing the impact of KS2 APS it was very reassuring to watch our Director of Progress introduce an academic mentoring programme that introduced an assessment flightplan based on student prior attainment and expected attainment. …
Confidence Intervals and Raiseonline
It has been a long time since I had to actually calculate a confidence interval, my research statistics class at SIUE to be precise. It’s hard to forget such riveting lectures such ‘Surely God loves .06 as much as he …
Leadership Pathways Core Day 3
Day 3 started with colleagues sharing their personal reflections on their own leadership growth. It was clear from the conversations that the Leadership Pathways programme has impacted on both their understanding of leadership and their practice. As a result, the …
Learning as I go
Unvalidated, validated and final data – another lesson learnt. August the results are in. Sept is a period of investigations and re-mark requests. October each school has the opportunity to check its data (ASCL Leadership of Data strongly recommended we …
Sims contacts patch
At our school we use the very effective Parents Evening System. In addition to the booking facility, the system collects parent and carer email and contact number. Transferring this information back to SIMs was not so simple, so I contacted …
Transition matrices
Having struggled with transition matrices over the summer holidays I attended the ASCL Leadership of Data Conference. Again, TMs were commonly referenced, if not universally understood. TMs were this weekends learning project. So, what are TMs? A transition matrix is a …