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Being good and doing good: It’s time to spread compassionate leadership

I remember the moment, a number of years ago, when a headteacher said to me 'I want my school to be a place fit to house the human spirit'. That really struck...
  • Director

Doing the right thing when everyone is watching

At Park Community School this year, we have been privileged to join the Next Big 10 project. Its philosophy immediately resonated with us at Park - to transform the education system so...
  • Park Community School

Navigating Modern Challenges in Education: A Response to Valerie Hannon’s Blog on Human Flourishing

We live in unprecedented times, facing seismic challenges such as cyber threats, global pandemics, climate change, inequalities, rapid communication, artificial intelligence, mental health issues, global conflicts, and issues with the supply of...

Curriculum K: Giving children the best possible start

Stressed, anxious, tired, unfocused children will not learn. At Kensington, when we started to look at why children were struggling, so often the reasons were health-related. Combine this with a mental and...
  • Kensington Primary

Too much division

We have come to a point in education where it seems division and dichotomy are prevalent, and possibly felt by some as necessary to justify claims for a high-quality education system. There...
  • University of East London

Opportunity and Optimism

The goal of education is to expand life chances. How do we do that? It is not by valuing norm reference and measurement by solely academic standards. Our current high stakes exam...
  • Park Community School

Speech, language and deceptively simple solutions

It is said that when we established a national education system, there was a brief debate as to whether schools should teach children about spoken language. This was quickly concluded with the...
  • Speech & Language UK

Wired to ignite: developing learning powers through metacognition

Hello, fellow educators and curious minds! My name is Gloria Gomez Barrera, and I am a Year 1 teacher and, part of the Next Big 10 Change Team for Atelier 21. In...
  • Atelier 21 Future School

Learner Profiles: assessment for an expansive curriculum

As a pioneering school, Atelier 21 prides itself on crafting meaningful, joyful, and relevant learning experiences for our future changemakers. However, with diverse cohorts from Reception to Year 11, one of the...
  • Atelier 21 Future School

Balancing the Paradox: Rethinking Leadership for Teacher Agency

Given the current context our school leaders work in - where funding shortages, an exponential rise in child poverty, squeezed public services and a growing teacher recruitment and retention crisis are creating...
  • Greater Manchester Education Trust
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