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Issue 8.5

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Institutional Racism in Schools: What Can School Leaders And Governors Do?

No school likes to think of themselves as racist. But subconscious bias and discrimination is playing a devastating role, argues Professor Paul Miller.

  • 8 Jun 2020
  • 24mins
  • Paul Miller
Leadership

Leadership Briefing Report update

Leadership Briefing is a weekly online summary of all that’s new and relevant to education, linked to original source documents that can be downloaded or viewed on screen, and available to everyone in your school leadership team. The briefings here give a sample of what’s on offer.

  • 16 Apr 2018
  • 24mins
Leadership

Moving to Learn

Maureen Hunt explains why movement is so essential for young children’s learning.

  • 16 Apr 2018
  • 24mins
  • Maureen Hunt
Leadership

Intervening Early With The Tree of Life A creative way to help school children talk about themselves

Narrative therapy, children telling the stories of their lives and culture, can be an effective early intervention that prevents more serious mental health issues developing in children. Carl Dutton explains.

  • 16 Apr 2018
  • 24mins
  • Carl Dutton
Leadership

This is What Inclusion Means To Me

Amy Husband is the head teacher of Clifford Bridge Academy. Here she gives a personal view on what it means to be an inclusive school.

  • 16 Apr 2018
  • 24mins
  • Amy Husband
Leadership

The Working Class Conundrum

Her own class background has given Professor Sonia Blandford a unique insight into the way working class children fail and what can be done about it.

  • 16 Apr 2018
  • 24mins
  • Sonia Blandford
Leadership

School Research: The New Frontier

The push for more and better school-led research to improve practice and children’s learning has never been stronger. But many are skeptical about its value. Tim Cain investigates its current role and reception at the coal face.

  • 16 Apr 2018
  • 24mins
  • Tim Cain
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Who Is Leading Our Schools?

Increasing confusion now hangs over the role of school governors. In an era of MATs, Julia Steward unpicks the question of what their role really is?

  • 16 Apr 2018
  • 24mins
  • Julia Steward
Leadership

A Deeper Look At Mastery

It seems that virtually every school in the country is thinking about Mastery Learning, but, from recent conversations with school leaders,very few of them have a clear understanding of what mastery learning is, reports Heather Clements.

  • 16 Apr 2018
  • 24mins
  • Heather Clements
Leadership

System leadership and collaboration – a new skillset for leaders?

In this article, Toby Greany describes the development of school-toschool support, networks and partnerships, focussing in particular on recent developments in England. He explores the leadership practices associated with these and argues that school leaders must become adept at working in an environment that incentivises collaborative competition.

  • 16 Apr 2018
  • 24mins
  • Toby Greany