Getting to know the world
In April I wrote for CPRT about the sort of aims and approaches needed for ‘learning global.’ Since then, the world has moved on dramatically, and the question of what it means to ‘know’ the world has...
View ArticleCompliant, collegial or Clint? What type of school leaders do we need?
In its chapter on professional leadership and workforce reform, the Cambridge Primary Review final report described a working environment in which ‘head teachers, once the undisputed and independent...
View ArticleEvidence-informed practice: the affirming power of research
Life in a busy school can sometimes make us feel like a startled herd of gazelles, darting every which way as the educational landscape changes; swiftly changing direction as the needs of children...
View ArticleBumps, birth and beyond
‘Good news; bad news’ on the educational front this term. Good news: extra funding to ensure that more 3 and 4 year olds can access 30 hours of provision a week. Bad news: the pot of £50m will create...
View ArticleSEAs4ALL – equity, voice, community and pedagogy
What is SEAs4ALL? SEAs4ALL is an Erasmus+ project promoting ‘Successful Educational Actions for Inclusion and Social Cohesion’ (SEAs) in England, Cyprus, Italy and Catalonia. SEAs are innovative...
View ArticleEducation after Brexit
Amanda Spielman, the new Chief Inspector of Schools, has recently suggested, with exquisite understatement, that the next few years are ‘not going to be easy’ for schools as political focus is likely...
View ArticleOver but not out
We mentioned at our highly successful national conference last November that the future of Cambridge Primary Review Trust (CPRT) has been under discussion. During the past ten years CPRT and its...
View ArticleOnwards and upwards
In my blog on 3 March I confirmed what we intimated at CPRT’s national conference in November: the Trust is closing but we have negotiated arrangements for securing its legacy and enabling interested...
View ArticleEducation in spite of policy: reflections on the 2016 CPRT conference
‘It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.’ So observed American science fiction writer Philip K Dick, way back in 1981. Dick, whose work inspired the cult movie Blade Runner,...
View ArticleEducation in spite of policy: further reflections on the 2016 CPRT conference
It encapsulated probably the defining contrast I have seen in nearly 20 years covering education: the under-rated commitment and thoughtfulness of much of the teaching profession versus the endless...
View ArticleGetting to know the world
In April I wrote for CPRT about the sort of aims and approaches needed for ‘learning global.’ Since then, the world has moved on dramatically, and the question of what it means to ‘know’ the world has...
View ArticleCompliant, collegial or Clint? What type of school leaders do we need?
In its chapter on professional leadership and workforce reform, the Cambridge Primary Review final report described a working environment in which ‘head teachers, once the undisputed and independent...
View ArticleEvidence-informed practice: the affirming power of research
Life in a busy school can sometimes make us feel like a startled herd of gazelles, darting every which way as the educational landscape changes; swiftly changing direction as the needs of children...
View ArticleBumps, birth and beyond
‘Good news; bad news’ on the educational front this term. Good news: extra funding to ensure that more 3 and 4 year olds can access 30 hours of provision a week. Bad news: the pot of £50m will create...
View ArticleSEAs4ALL – equity, voice, community and pedagogy
What is SEAs4ALL? SEAs4ALL is an Erasmus+ project promoting ‘Successful Educational Actions for Inclusion and Social Cohesion’ (SEAs) in England, Cyprus, Italy and Catalonia. SEAs are innovative...
View ArticleEducation after Brexit
Amanda Spielman, the new Chief Inspector of Schools, has recently suggested, with exquisite understatement, that the next few years are ‘not going to be easy’ for schools as political focus is likely...
View ArticleOver but not out
We mentioned at our highly successful national conference last November that the future of Cambridge Primary Review Trust (CPRT) has been under discussion. During the past ten years CPRT and its...
View ArticleOnwards and upwards
In my blog on 3 March I confirmed what we intimated at CPRT’s national conference in November: the Trust is closing but we have negotiated arrangements for securing its legacy and enabling interested...
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