Driven by data – Analysis
Before I spend my time writing this post, and possibly a handful of colleagues invest their time reading this post, I need to point that my colleagues and I have not yet finished Step 1 of a Data Driven Leadership …
Driven by data – Assessment
ASSESSMENTS – (Aligned, Interim, Reassess, Transparent) Standards (and objectives) are meaningless until you define how to assess them. Because of this, assessments are the starting point for instruction, not the end. And The difference between a formative and they submitted …
Driven by data – first impressions
Driven by Data: A Practical Guide to Improve Instruction – Paul Bambrick-Santoyo Paul Bambrick-Santoyo is the Managing Director of Uncommon Schools Newark, which is composed of seven North Star Academy schools. During Bambrick-Santoyo’s eight years at North Star, the schools …
Maximum Impact
With just two weeks under our belts, I wanted to create a framework to set the expectations of our Senior Heads of Curriculum, of myself even. A structured conversation in which I could reaffirm our aim and the expectation of …
Puffin Live, or so we thought
I understand the necessity for “rapid” progress however I am equally keen to anchor our progress on durable education practice and for me, there are few more important responsibilities than developing reading abilities. Instilling a love of reading a by-product. In a week …
Got it wrong, apologised, need to do better
Not to be too hard on myself, it has been a busy and unpredictable start to the academic year. That taken into consideration, I still got it horribly wrong this week when I colleague tried to follow up an email …
Exams analysis – revising the curriculum
It has been a very busy two days. Presentations, meetings, department time, emergencies, emails, data preparation and a serious sprinkle of reality, reviewing our students reading abilities. To be “functionally” literate you need to have a reading age of 11. …
Making Sense of the Data
You’ve been pushed in at the deep end and asked to lead data. It is time to sharpen your data axe. You are preparing for leadership interviews and expect another data task – what does this data show you? You …