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MAT Growth: 5 practical tips
Chris Kirk, Ex-Partner for Education at PwC, and formerly GEMS DfE recently wrote about the 6 phases of MAT growth (and the crises that...


Standardising and empowering - the best of both worlds?
Time to move on from the ‘top down’ or ‘bottom up’ debate: MATs should give serious attention to collaborative standardisation...


6 phases of MAT Growth
At a recent residential programme for MAT CEOs we were discussing different models for improving schools across a MAT, and how any chosen...

Teacher and student wellbeing
The OECD reported recently that test anxiety of UK students is the third highest of 72 countries. The school leaders I speak to are fully...


Partnerships for progress: the Getting Ahead London approach to developing school leaders
It’s mid-afternoon on a freezing November afternoon in Friends Meeting Place near Euston station. A group of 30 or so people are engaged...


Finding, and keeping, good teachers
Teachers make the biggest difference to students’ learning; and for students from disadvantaged home backgrounds this is even more the...


Death of the superhead
Eric McNulty’s fascinating review of new research into the link between charismatic CEO’s and company performance has interesting...
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