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Why Ambition Institute will always back educators
Six weeks into my role and I am ready to write my first blog: an exciting opportunity in itself, but even more so to be doing it during an election period!
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The school leader: using mental models effectively
In the first of two posts on how school leaders draw on their expertise to solve educational problems, headteacher and author, Matthew Evans, considers the mental models which guide expert decision making.
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2020: A new perspective for school leadership?
As we start the new decade, our Executive Director for School Leadership, Tom Rees, reflects on five key ideas from the current leadership debate and a ‘new perspective’ for 2020.
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Our Trust Diagnostic: why it’s needed and how it works
Our Executive Director of System Leadership, Sir David Carter, introduces our new Trust Diagnostic: an in-depth, face-to-face consultative review for school trusts.
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Explaining the science of learning to teachers
Harry Fletcher-Wood introduces The Learning Curriculum 2.0 – a revised version of his guide for teacher educators on how to teach teachers the science of learning.
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Persistent problems: Finding the purpose for expert school leadership
Jen Barker and Tom Rees discuss the use of ‘persistent problems’ as the purpose for school leaders’ work.
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