Using the SSAT Framework for Exceptional Education for strategic planning
As thoughts now turn to planning for the next school year, you may find SSAT’S Framework for Exceeptional Education helpful in identifying development priorities. The framework is a self-review and planning tool, which can be used in its entirety or a strand at a time, depending on whether you want to take a broader view or focus on a particular aspect of your practice.
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The Third Pillar of Principled Curriculum Design: Delivery
SSAT’s ‘Four Pillars of Principled Curriculum Design’ now has versions for mainstream primary, secondary and special schools. Over the coming weeks, SSAT’s senior education leads, Alex Galvin and Colin Logan, will be looking at each of the four pillars in turn. Today, Alex and Colin consider the third pillar: Delivery.
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Refocusing strategy– where do you want to make an impact?
Schools, or more accurately the people who work in them, have done an incredible job in providing stability and continuity for pupils at a time of great uncertainty. The pandemic has highlighted how the school is much more than a place of learning, it is at the heart of the community.
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Helping the whole school community to look inwards and outwards
"It is the overlaying of the fundamental ways of being and doing that the vision lives to become 'just what we do here'." Paula Ayto, Reid Street Primary School, writes...
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Tackling data about teaching jobs
John Howson explains how TeachVac can support schools tackling the recruitment crisis. TeachVac has been commenting on the ITT recruitment scene for many years, and has been joined by other commentators more recently, such as the NfER.
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The Second Pillar of Principled Curriculum Design: Content
Over the coming weeks, SSAT’s senior education leads, Alex Galvin and Colin Logan, will be looking at each of the four pillars in turn. Today, Alex and Colin consider the second pillar: Content.
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School Diversity Week 2022
School Diversity Week is a huge celebration of LGBT+ inclusion that takes place every June, opening up much-needed conversations about acceptance.
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Improving mental health and wellbeing issues in young people
Graham Moore from humanutopia reflects on the mental health and wellbeing issues facing young people today and how we need to re-imagine schooling in order to solve this crisis.
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The Four Pillars
SSAT’s “Four Pillars of Principled Curriculum Design” now has versions for mainstream primary and secondary and special schools. Over the coming weeks, SSAT’s senior education leads, Alex Galvin and Colin Logan, will be looking at each of the four pillars in turn. Today, Colin looks at how the resource developed and focuses on the first pillar, intent.
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Early Leadership Development – my story
I started teaching at the turn of the millennium. Reflecting on my early years, I am massively grateful for the many opportunities I was given to grow in a supportive culture that trusted me to take on leadership responsibility, even while I still had so much to learn.
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