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A Vision for Education in 2040 – Part 2

May 26, 2013

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This is my second post in response to the inaugural meeting of the SSAT’s Vision 2040 group earlier this week. In the first post (https://dailygenius.wordpress.com/2013/05/25/a-vision-for-education-in-2040/) I imagined how things in 2040 might look from my own perspective as a retiring teacher. I took the optimistic route (it was ever thus and ever thus will be) […]

A Vision for Education in 2040 – Part 1

May 25, 2013

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This week I was one of a number of school leaders who met as part of the SSAT’s Vision 2040 group under the stewardship of Tom Sherrington, the @headguruteacher. The first question Tom put to the group was what we thought teachers and school staff looking in from the outside might expect of us. This […]

There’s only one F in Ofsted

May 19, 2013

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Imagine if the teaching profession en masse were given a magic lamp with their very own genie in it, and that every teacher were given a vote on a collective three wishes. There would, I think, be two certainties and one highly contested third wish. The certainties would be that something pretty awful would befall […]

Spirit Levels: Exorcising The Ghost of Assessment Past

May 12, 2013

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National Curriculum Levels are dead. That’s the starting point of this post. In secondary schools, at KS3, they have been dead for 5 years now. They were brutally and fatally assaulted with the disastrous KS3 tests of 2007 and then dispatched with a bullet to the head in 2008 when the SATs were scrapped by […]