Step by step, Diverse Academies is transforming its schools. In this series we are invited inside the process. 

Diverse Academies based in Retford is in the middle of moving towards an effective collaborative learning community across its network of schools. …

Our colleagues in Sweden have embarked on an initiative aimed at improving the quality of teaching and learning.

The initiative, Teaching skills in practice, is already gaining traction in a number of Swedish schools and municipalities. It was launched …

We were soon called upon to replicate our success with school transformation. This ushered in fresh obstacles, not least convincing head teachers to co-operate.

It was not long before other schools in the borough began to show interest in our …

There is no one-size-fits all answer when it comes to school transformation, but classroom management must be consistent.

During this early period of developing our approach to school transformation, I was also asked to support another relatively new head teacher …

In the second in our series on school transformation we explain how school improvement requires both staff and students to adjust their behaviour.

Improving the quality of teaching and learning was not the only issue that needed addressing in our …

From improving one school in the 1980s, we helped transform London’s school system. Here we explain how it began.

The next series of articles describe how we used the effective knowledge management approach to school improvement to transform schools. …