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This article was written for SecEd magazine Despite the end of the third, and hopefully the last, national lockdown, it is inevitable that some pupils will still have to resort to home learning in the coming weeks and months due to self-isolation, local lockdowns or even non-Covid reasons such as flooding or snow days. ItContinue reading “The 3Ms of effective remote learning”

This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in June 2021.  You can download the full supplement for free on the SecEd website here.   In September, I wrote a two-part article on the subject of curriculum impact (Bromley, 2020a; 2020b). In those pieces, I argued that test and qualification outcomes are no longer the sole lensContinue reading “Curriculum impact: pupil progress, outcomes and preparedness”

This is an edited extract from the book, School and College Curriculum Design 3: Impact. For more information on this book and the first two in the series, as well as to access a raft of free curriculum resources, visit our Curriculum Central page. I advocate forming a ‘golden triangle’ which connects the following aspectsContinue reading “Impact – Step 5: Form a golden triangle”

This article was written for Inside Government.   The Covid-19 pandemic provided school leaders with a crash-course in crisis management. And, although I’m sure we all hope we don’t have to use these new-found skills any time soon, it is worth unpacking what we’ve learned because crises, though certainly not commonplace, do plague us from timeContinue reading “Crisis management for schools”

This article was written for SecEd magazine.   In 2019, the average Attainment 8 score for pupils who were not eligible for free school meals (FSM) was 45.6. Currently, around 10 per cent of white pupils, 20 per cent of black pupils, and 45 per cent of Bangladeshi pupils receive FSM. In total, there wereContinue reading “Supporting the education of white working class boys”

This article was written for SecEd magazine. Ofsted recently updated its initial teacher education (ITE) inspection framework, with the revised version having now come into effect (as of September 2020). The new framework applies to all phases of ITE, including early years, primary, secondary and further education (Ofsted, 2020). Ofsted has introduced a new keyContinue reading “Early Career Teachers: Sense-check your CPD”