Three keys to recruitment and retention
Sylvia Paddock, director of operations, SSAT suggests three elements that can help.
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‘Post-truth’: to help your students discern what is true, you might need to check how you do it
Part of the answer is to understand the processes by which we accept things as true that are not true, and how we can overcome that, writes Peter Chambers.
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Good CPD requires an ‘intentional’ approach to your best bets
Matt Hood, SSAT National Conference 2017 main stage speaker and Director of the Institute for Teaching, discusses ‘best-bets’ in teacher education.
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What does excellence mean as a school leader?
Getting up at 5am to walk to school through the snow, for one thing, says Katrina Morley.
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Heroic leadership? It’s not what you think
As someone whose career has involved leading firefighters into some of the most dangerous situations, Andy Roe has thought-provoking observations about leadership. Anne-Marie Duguid and Alex Galvin of SSAT write.
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Courageous leadership and the school curriculum
Leadership coach and former headteacher Diana Osagie gives examples of her approach.
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How a frustrated teacher became an expert in educational psychology
Second post in the SSAT National Conference 2017: Illuminating learning blog series. Paul A Kirschner, Distinguished University Professor of educational psychology at the Open University of the Netherlands.
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Refocusing assessment – making assessment work for your students
Alex Galvin, SSAT Senior Education Lead, writes… Back when I started teaching, assessment was pretty straightforward. Pieces of work were marked A-E and we recorded marks for certain extended pieces of work in a blue folder in the history work
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Celebrating exceptional education
Alex Galvin, SSAT Senior Education Lead, writes… The team at SSAT are in the privileged position of visiting a large number of schools every year. We know that despite the very real challenges that schools are currently facing, day in
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