Teacher recruitment crisis – the worst since the Second World War
Schools are facing the worse teacher recruitment crisis since the Second World War, but there is little recognition of this in the mainstream media and little comment by the DfE. Sue Williamson, CEO at SSAT spoke to Professor John Howson, a renowned expert on teacher recruitment.
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Leadership lessons from HM Queen Elizabeth II
The death of Queen Elizabeth II last week has caused many of us to stop and reflect, as we tend to do at the end of an era. She was not only the only monarch that we have known, but for many of us the only monarch our parents remember. As several commentators put it, she was not just a queen, she was the Queen.
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Don’t overlook the need of learners with SEND to grieve too
In this blog Pauline Holbrook, our Head of SEND reflects on how we might support our learners with SEND understand death and their grief and that of others.
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“Thank you, your Majesty,”
Sue Williamson, Chief Executive, SSAT, pays tribute to Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II following the announcement of her death.
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Primary School Accountability in 2022
The DfE published its technical guide to primary school accountability on 5th September. SSAT Senior Education Lead, Colin Logan, considers the key headlines.
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Getting (back) to grips with data
“Data-driven school improvement” was all the rage in the 2010s. School leaders, advisers and inspectors all used RAISEonline, Fischer Family Trust and the Ofsted data dashboard as the touchstone for their work. Fortunately, we gradually became savvier and more looked more at “data-informed school improvement”. And then came the pandemic.
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And so another new year starts…
And so another new year starts. The GCSE and A level results are in. Heads of department are busy analysing their data to present to their line managers; senior leaders are preparing presentations for their governors. Just another year. Or is it?
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Congratulations to all
Huge congratulations to all students receiving their results today. All students in this year’s cohort, regardless of their final results have so much to be proud of. They have shown extraordinary resilience, persevering when the world as we knew it
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The Hidden Child
No child should go through a school day without interaction with teachers about their learning and well-being, but it happens. There are learners that can go days without direct contact from a teacher in school. I was one of these hidden children.
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The road to better formative assessment at Shireland Collegiate Academy
For us at Shireland Collegiate Academy, it all began with a fabulous joint Trust School INSET day. Dylan Wiliam had travelled over from LA to share his wisdom about all things relating to formative assessment. This was in March 2020 and, towards the end of the day, he spoke about how difficult it was to change teachers’ habits in the classroom. A way to foster the idea of change and practice was though TLCs (Teacher Learning Communities).
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