by Manager Learning First | Feb 26, 2020 | School Improvement, Teaching and professional learning
System leaders regularly tell me that they know that professional development (PD) isn’t really having an impact but it is an area that feels impossible to tackle. The policy debate doesn’t help them; it’s generally too high-level and skips over the real problem of PD...
by Manager Learning First | Dec 18, 2019 | School Improvement
On 3 December the OECD released the latest PISA results; their assessment of 15-year-old students in reading, science and mathematics across 79 countries. PISA is high profile in many countries, so system leaders often have to respond in some way; the pressure builds...
by Manager Learning First | Apr 1, 2019 | School Improvement
My previous two posts in this blog talked about a process for system reform — tangible steps system leaders can take to improve teaching and learning at scale (for a recap, read here). I will get into more detail in my next blog posts, but here I want to...
by Manager Learning First | Nov 22, 2018 | School Improvement
Last week the first post in my new blog, Connecting policy to the classroom, identified two foundational policies for system improvement: Quality curriculum that shows what students need to learn in school An improvement cycle that shows the steps educators need to...
by Manager Learning First | Nov 16, 2018 | School Improvement
I have been lucky over the years to work with people across the globe who are giving everything they have to lift their school systems. Some succeed, some fail. To be honest, most succeed a bit and fail a bit, but they all keep striving to change the lives of kids...
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