The impact of improving students’ organizational skills
In this think piece, Charlotte Broadhurst from Wirral Grammar School for Boys attempts to improve the organisational skills of year 6 students.
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Perspectives on motivation of post-16 students with a focus on BTEC
SSAT Leadership Legacy Fellow, Saba Syed-Marikar, throughout this think piece unpicks what motivates our students to progress and succeed, and whether choosing to study BTEC or A-level plays a part in this.
Leading Teaching and Learning : A journey towards a more diverse curriculum
Education plays a crucial part in our society to achieve equity, not just equality, as well as social cohesion. After the death of George Floyd, Charlotte Nicholas, SSAT Leadership Legacy Fellow, focused her think piece around what, as an individual teacher – and school, could be done in order to achieve social justice through education.
Helping students to understand how to revise effectively: A reflection
Explaining the science behind teaching and revision, sharing several strategies, and demonstrating how to use these in context, SSAT Leadership Legacy Fellow, Hamda Sheikh, writes how revision for students can be transformed.
The Power of Positive Reinforcement
Georgina Wood, SSAT Leadership Legacy Fellow, writes in her think piece about the significance of developing two key areas within her school: form time and wellbeing. The focus of her research, coupled with the ‘pause’ the pandemic caused, lead to developing new strategies with measurable impact.
Inclusion and equalities at Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School, Derbyshire
In his Think Piece, Tim Chow shares his school’s initial progress with improving inclusion and equality for all stakeholders in the wake of the Black Lives Matters protests in the market town of Ashbourne in the Derbyshire Dales.
Whose ‘thousand lives”? Creating a culturally responsive curriculum
Rachael Garvin, KS5 English Lead and SSAT Leadership Legacy Fellow writes in her Think Piece about how Central Foundation School is creating a culturally responsive curriculum. Rachel shares a series of “recovery lessons” which have provided students with the space to process the dramatic events of May 2020.
From darkness into light
In this think piece, Michael Waites, teacher/ASC lead at Catcote Academy and SSAT Leadership Legacy Fellow, shares a student’s journey following his diagnosis with autism spectrum disorder
Developing a whole-school approach to deliver pastoral and transition support virtually during lockdown
In his think piece submission for the SSAT Leadership Legacy Project, Steven Robinson, Head of Physical Education & Head of KS3 at Hope Academy, explains how a project originally designed to celebrate student success has successfully been adapted into a virtual pastoral programme which also supports transition between years 6 and 7.
International-mindedness in a global pandemic
Victoria Hearn, Principal at Impington Village College, describes why nurturing international mindsets in their students is key and how they are looking to the future