The discussion of policy interactions can get a bit theoretical and high-level, so I want to bring it back down to the tangible. In this blog, I go through specific steps for system leaders to improve teacher professional development policy in a way that emphasises policy interactions to improve results.

Systemic assessments of student learning that isolate skills like “finding the main idea” encourage teachers to place an unhelpful emphasis on the teaching of these “skills”.

Strong curriculum combined with teacher and school leader development can drive powerful school and system improvement.