No school improves by itself. Schools get better because someone – or better still a group of people – put energy into improving the school.
Linked to this there is a second, equally simple and equally valid observation. Even the most excellent school will slip back over time, unless something is done, to keep it improving.
So what is it that some school managers are doing which helps improve a school in terms of its Ofsted rating, parental satisfaction and its exam results not just this year but also next year and the year after?
The answer it turns out is rather simple. They have set up a continuing development and improvement programme.
Not, I hasten to add, a programme that turns the school upside down every term, but a programme that gently tweaks and improves different aspects of school life step by step, and does it in such a gentle way that most of the time, most colleagues don’t notice it happening.
Such an approach works in the background of everyday school life without putting any strain on the school or its members of staff. Yet the results can be extraordinary.
The entire process is described in The Ever Improving School, a report commissioned and produced by the School of Educational Administration and Management – a body set up with government funding and the support of the government’s Department of Trade and Industry and the University of Northampton Department of Education.
The Ever Improving School is available as a Kindle book for £9.99 and as a download which can be printed out, copied and given to colleagues within the school for £14.95, including VAT.
ISBN: 978 1 86083 852 1 Order code: T1843 – please quote with order.
You can purchase the download copy of the volume
- On the phone with a school order number at 01604 880 927
- By email to sales@schools.co.uk with a school order number
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You can purchase the kindle book from Amazon