The data display I have referred to most often recently is our Data Wall. It is far from complicated on the surface to understand, though there is plenty of Excel wizardry behind the scenes to make it work. Both the hard graft and the design is the work of Jon Adams, our Director of Assessment, and it is as effective, as it is colourful. The perfect tool for directing the conversation between .... Read more and bookmark.
Our growing number of students with C grade English coursework folders successes are being shared with students through the Miss Odell stars. Simple and effective. Now with two doors covered, we are moving onto wall space. Well done to all those staff and students. The second striking set of images are the Year topic banners the team are posting, refreshed each term. Striking and reinforcing .... Read more and bookmark.
With the release of the interactive transition matrices last week, the breaks in the weekend was spent investigating the national data sets. Trying to learn from what the data was telling us.* Curious where the borderline C grades were achieved, and potentially lost, for English and Maths students in particular. English Prior .... Read more and bookmark.
This post is for any school leader or data enthusiasts with a quirky interest in macro education data. Most dataheads are comfortable with school and even national data. Andreas Schleicher, Special Advisor on Education Policy to OECD’s Secretary-General, is comfortable with world education data, analysing and benchmark international education performance data. This #ASCL2014 Keynote could as .... Read more and bookmark.
Back in February I was chasing down the interactive transition matrices. After a fruitless email exchange it was met with the rather disappointing response from Raiseonlne. Dear Kristian, Thank you for your email. I am sorry to say that the interactive transition matrices are not going to be updated for 2013 due to resource capacity. The static transition matrices are available from within the .... Read more and bookmark.
It is easy, for instance, to mistake commitment for accomplishment and enthusiasm for excellence. They are not the same. – Sir Micheal Wilshaw My experience of the last two Ofsted inspections has been largely positive. The inspection teams were open, challenging and supportive. Far from the Hammer Horror anecdotes posted on teacher forums and bemoaned in hash tagged streams of .... Read more and bookmark.