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 …

The First Step: Choosing Collaboration Over Competition: The Story Begins (2012)

This is the first of four articles concerning the development of the collaborative learning community – Inspiring Leaders.  The author is the Managing Director James Brown.

The formation of …

What endures, what evolves and what school are engaging in to improve their pupils outcomes 

In May, we received a copy of Challenge Partners’ latest analysis of trends in education. This is the third in their series of reports analysing …

In August 2024 the Head of Education, the head teacher s, teachers  and key staff at all the six schools in the Örkelljunga municipality, Sweden, started a 3 year training and tutoring to develop skillful evidence-based teaching in every classroom. …

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 …

School culture the key to teacher retention?

In this article we highlight the research report entitled- The Impact of the Early Career Framework (ECF) Programme on the Work Engagement, Wellbeing and Retention of Teachers: A Longitudinal Study, 2021–2026 Interim Research …