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Issue 4.2

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Manager’s Briefcase – Performance management

Making National Teaching Standards work in performance management.

  • 30 Oct 2012
  • 24mins
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Driven or driving? Flat or flying? The state our schools are in

In this issue’s review, Chris Watkins is inspired by The Adventurous School, operating way beyond the imagination of the government in its school vision.

  • 30 Oct 2012
  • 24mins
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Guiding teachers, empowering parents

To tackle common parenting problems one charity has developed a support system that breaks down the barriers between teachers and parents and ultimately improves children’s educational experience.

  • 30 Oct 2012
  • 24mins
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Nipping the effects of disadvantage in the bud

To avoid the consequences of disadvantage, Bradford have launched All Aboard, an intervention programme that meets the developmental needs of children in the Early Years with commendable success.

  • 30 Oct 2012
  • 24mins
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The value of emotional intelligence

Young people are too often herded through a school system of quick fix strategies and cast unprepared into the 21st century. Here Paul Trainor argues for greater emphasis on holistic development within the school culture.

  • 30 Oct 2012
  • 24mins
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The technology leasing scam!

With budget cuts hitting hard, schools have become vulnerable targets when leasing technology. Here we explore the ways to reap the benefits and avoid the pitfalls in this growing minefield.

  • 30 Oct 2012
  • 24mins
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The hidden reasons behind exclusions

Unfair exclusions are rife in our schools and can often do more harm than good. Susannah Strong looks at the perturbing findings from the Children’s Commissioner’s Inquiry Report on Exclusion.

  • 30 Oct 2012
  • 24mins
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Relational aggression: The subtle art of bullying

Complex, subtle and emotionally devastating. It’s easy for relational aggression to go unnoticed in a busy school environment, but this growing form of bullying needs to be challenged. In our second article on bullying Deborah James reports on an intervention which tackles the problem head on.

  • 30 Oct 2012
  • 24mins
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Online access to parental involvement!

Involving hard-to-reach parents really is worth going the extra mile. Deputy Headteacher, Neil Bradford shares the benefits of using technology to build parental involvement with a roundthe- clock online service that embraces diversity.

  • 30 Oct 2012
  • 24mins
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The future is bright for Rotherham

Despite a backdrop of industrial decline, Rotherham has succeeded in raising its aspirations. Catherine Brentnall reports on an enterprise education programme that allows teachers to let go while students improve the outlook for Rotherham and beyond.

  • 30 Oct 2012
  • 24mins