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Professional development must be at the heart of schools’ Coronavirus recovery
Reopening schools is naturally at the front of everyone’s minds. Here our executive director for school leadership Tom Rees argues for the importance of professional development in the year ahead.
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Designing curriculum in ‘the new normal’
Schools have returned to some sort of normal this month. As the dust settles on new routines, the focus for many senior leaders overseeing curriculum will be shifting to the work of curriculum development.
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Back to school: motivating and assessing pupils after lockdown
This September is like no other in history. We talked to school leaders and assessment experts about how they’ll go about assessing and motivating pupils when they return to school.
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So you want to be a CEO? The journey from headship to system leadership
This is an exclusive extract from the new book ‘Leading Academy Trusts: Why some fail, but most don’t’ by Sir David Carter with Laura McInerney. This extract is from Chapter 2, which charts the evolving landscape of school and system leadership and explores what this means for aspiring multi-academy trust CEOs.
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Remember, pupils forget: learning loss and coronavirus
Paula Delaney, from Ambition's Learning Design team, takes a look the impact coronavirus may have on learning loss.
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Future Leaders gave me the confidence to deliver positive change at my school
Assistant headteacher, Linsay Carmichael shares how Future Leaders helped her to be a more confident leader and reshape the relationships between her school and the local primary.
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