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 …
Having joined the ASCL and accepted a new role, I visited their website and reviewed their data for school improvement resources, starting with ‘Making Effective Use of RAISEonline.’ Here, I found a plethora of RAISEonline and Performance table resources produced by …
On Thursday I attended the ASCL Leadership of Data One Day Conference. This training event represented a significant investment by my school in my professional development and I feel confident it was good value. I came away armed with a sound …
Data is mentioned specifically in two of the Headteacher Standards. Firstly, in ‘Leading, Learning and Teaching,’ where it outlines how headteachers need to understand how to collect and analyse data to inform learning and teaching. Second, in securing accountability, where …
I work with two fantastic middle leaders. Both support me whole heartedly and their feedback is always well considered. In preparing a whole school, whole year, data monitoring calendar I asked if one of my lines to proof both the document …
At the start of each new year, I look back at the year just past, and look forward to the year ahead. I like to reflect on how closely the year matched my expectations and hold myself accountable for my …
My role for next year is gradually become more defined. In a nutshell I will be in an educational marriage with performance data; SIMs, RaiseOnline, FFT and SISRA the new framework. It is a role anchored to hard data, hard policy and efficient data …
Learning is not a place, it’s an activity. – Andreas Schleicher. So, an interest TED post, let’s hope we can watch the talk. You can’t copy and paste education systems wholesale, but there are a range of shared factors,” Scheicher …
