One of the Problems with Multi-Academy Trusts: Accountability
One of the problems when you transfer state educational assets to Multi-Academy Trusts operating in a commercial environment to generate shareholder value is accountability. I say one of the problems, … Continue reading
Wealth Inequality and Social Injustice: A Message for Christmas
Until such wealth inequalities are addressed this county will not make the progress it desires. We cannot use the blunt mechanism of wealth to determine opportunity. We cannot afford to waste … Continue reading
A Restful and Happy Christmas Break to all our Learning Renaissance blog readers worldwide
I hope all our readers from across the world are now reaching the time of either their winter or summer break in schools and colleges. This has been a year … Continue reading
Numbers and the tricks they play | BBC Academy
Numbers can be used to tell all sorts of stories. They can help show the scale of a particular problem or issue, illustrating whether it’s big or small. When you’re … Continue reading
Thought For The Day: Accommodating Difference
This from Manjula Raman, CEO Evangelist CHIEF KNOWLEDGE OFFICER AND PEDAGOGIST: This picture was drawn by an autistic kid and her buddy with the caption I want to fly i … Continue reading
The Retreat into Managerialism – Data in Schools
An interesting article by Rebecca Allen about the use, misuse and misinterpretation of data in schools: When the going gets tough, schools make data | FFT Education Datalab Download the … Continue reading
Though For The Day: Challenging Behaviour
We forget this at our peril. Thank you to Dr Tina Rae for sharing this timely reminder about behaviour, and what it tells us, if only we would listen and … Continue reading
Why is the UK not making sufficient progress in the PISA tables? Andreas Schleicher of OECD Shares His Thoughts
This TES interview with Andreas Schleicher of the OECD, who compile the PISA comparative education effectiveness tables is very revealing, and, after all, he is in a position to understand … Continue reading
Primary league tables: How did your school do? | BBC News
New primary school league table data for England has been published by the Department for Education. The tables are based on how 11-year-olds in each school performed in national curriculum … Continue reading
Children with Sensory Disorders – The Signs Are There If We Look Closely
Children with sensory disorders exhibit consistent patterns of behaviours. As teachers we may not observe the pattern or join the dots of the behaviour into a pattern. Thanks again to … Continue reading
What happens when you privatise your national schools estate and fail to put in adequate governance and accountability?
I’ve spoken before about the Tory government flagship educational policy of privatisation of the national schools estate through the mechanism of creating Academy chains to replace local authority control of … Continue reading
New Article on Future Proofing Your School in pDT Journal 21.1
In a rather bleak Christmas period, it was a treat yesterday to be contacted by Graham Handscomb, the editor of pDT (Professional Development Today), to say that my polemical article … Continue reading
Thought For The Day: Be Kind
Be kind, be fair and treat others as you would want to be treated and all will be well.
What the PISA tables don’t tell us, what the politicians don’t understand, and what good teachers know
The PISA tables reviewing the year 2018 have just been published. They present a ranking of the effectiveness of the respective education systems of countries in the areas of reading, … Continue reading
Emotional Intelligence: Towards an Operational Definition For Learning
Many thanks to Daniel Sobel for bringing this table based on work by Daniel Goleman back to my attention. I first read it when completing the National Professional Qualification for … Continue reading
Thought For The Day: Art and Creativity
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” Pablo Picasso
UK PISA Results: Not Much Change, But Some Worrying Developments
This week’s release of the international comparative data on educational performance (PISA) revealed a marginal improvement in performance of UK schools in Maths, but otherwise no breakthroughs in teaching and … Continue reading
10 Simple Steps for Reducing Toxic Stress in the Classroom
Thanks to Sarah Morgan for bringing this article by Jim Hickman and Kathy Higgins in Education Week to my attention. Sarah highlights the need for early interventions to ensure the … Continue reading
School/Parent Relations and SEND Pupils
The relationship between schools and parents can be a fraught one. It is often characterised by an arm’s length relationship, which exacerbates when the child enters secondary school and the … Continue reading
Estonia: How to do education effectively!
With the latest PISA figures published by the OECD now available, it might be worth considering one of the brightest stars in the educational firmament… Estonia. Estonia has come from … Continue reading
Project-Based Learning: Some Hiccups Along the Way
This blog has long advocated Project Based Learning (PBL) as a key conduit towards creating a 21st century curriculum in schools. PBL is the basis for transforming a teacher led … Continue reading
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