System improvement rarely begins with rhetoric. It begins with disciplined attention to practice.

Over recent years, Mats Rosenkvist and his colleagues Bernt Friberg and Urban Hansson have worked to build precisely that discipline: a rigorous, evidence-based framework for observing and …

Reconnect London: Building on the Legacy of the London Challenge

The London Challenge, launched in the early 2000s, was a government-funded initiative designed to transform the performance of schools across the capital. At its core was a vision …

For school improvement to take effect it is first essential that all those involved acknowledge the problem at hand.

School improvement is a problem-solving exercise and for the process to be successful it requires all those involved to be aligned. …

Work continues on a groundbreaking study to gauge the quality of education in Sweden, aimed at improving standards across-the-board.

Over in Sweden, Mats Rosenkvist continues with his development of a systematic approach to improving the quality of teaching and learning …

The process of professional development, from compliance to growth, requires clear communication to all involved from the outset.

In the conclusion of his series on developing the schools within Diverse Academies, Jamie Tegerdine explains the importance of communicating the new …

In the second instalment in our series on schools transformation, Jamie Tegerdine, Strategic Lead for Teaching, Learning and Professional Development – Diverse Academies Trust, explains the elements that make up the organisation’s approach and presents the evidence to justify it.…