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3. Three leadership constants  Focus on learning  Partnership working  Distributed leadership

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6. Hard federations/trusts, single governing body Sport for all Sport for all Sport for all 14 to 19 consortia Benchmarking groups Soft federations, joint management structure Vertical integrations, secondary, special, primary Sport for all

7. Sport for all Sport for all Sport for all School improvement partnership 14 to 19 consortium Behaviour collaborative Sport for all Benchmarking group Specialist group

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11. “The system is crushing some good heads. They feel unvalued and alienated. And they are resigning.”

12. School Improvement Partner process Self-evaluation processes re-designed for SEF Student voice Different performance tables New (then revised) school profile New GCSE specifications New citizenship programme Assessment for learning Extended schools Functional skills to incorporate Sustainable development to underpin the curriculum Enterprise education 14 to 19 specialised diplomas New code on admissions New behaviour code All staff records to be CRB-checked Gifted and talented programmes Numerous meetings to attend on Every Child Matters Re-structuring of staff responsibilities and pay New local authority structure Personalised learning Reduce teenage pregnancies Food standards changed New inspection framework Statutory responsibility for promoting community cohesion Major changes at key stage 3 The power to search Statutory accountability for well-being of children New financial management standards Trust school status A complex new Education and Inspections Act Increase parent engagement Workforce reform agreement NICE guidelines re childhood obesity The SEF

13. New demands on bilingual teaching New key stage 2 to 3 transition plans Implementing the Welsh Bac at 3 levels New assessment procedures to adopt Community focused schools A full review of the national curriculum to implement Implementing the 14 to 19 Learning Pathways Compulsory School Councils

14. The Disability Discrimination Act New age discrimination regulations Risk assessments

15. Yet another quality improvement strategy New funding regulations New Measures of Success Extension of Train to Gain and Learner Accounts Framework for Excellence New framework for self-regulation

16. “I am so wearied with the work, so tired with the toil and overwhelmed with care thereof, that I neither can nor will any longer continue in it.”

17. Secondary teacher workload survey: average weekly working hours 2000 2003 2004 2005 2006 Heads 60.8 60.9 60.8 62.6 65.1 Deputy heads 58.6 56.5 54.1 58.1 61.0 Heads of fac/dept 52.9 52.7 51.6 51.2 51.5 Classroom teachers 51.3 50.8 49.9 49.3 49.1 Source: STRB workload survey, 2006

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19. Support staff in secondary schools (full-time equivalent) 1997 42,500 1998 44,500 1999 47,500 2000 51,000 2001 58,500 2002 68,500 2003 70,500 2004 81,360 2005 93,070 Source: Statistics of Education: Schools in England 2006. Table E2

20. Pupil:Staff Ratios in Secondary Schools Pupil:Adult Ratio Pupil:Teacher Ratio 2000 14.5 17.2 2002 13.3 16.9 2004 12.8 17.0 2005 12.2 16.7 2006 11.7 16.6 Source: Statistics of Education: Schools in England 2006. Table 11

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23. False assumptions  Secondary schools suffer from dull uniformity  Comprehensive schools are one-size-fits-all  Parents want to run schools  Testing is the same as assessment  Ofsted has raised standards  Local authorities control schools

24. POLICY IMPLEMENTATION POLICY IMPLEMENTATION

25. ONE IN, ONE OUT THE ASCL CHALLENGE

26. “Number 10 policy advisers would come over with another bright idea to which our answer would be that we hadn’t implemented the last bright idea.”

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28. “League tables have become the Fat Controller’s equivalent of the railway signal box. More focus on the 3Rs! Quick, pull the maths and English lever. Worried about coasting schools. Throw the value added switch.”

29. “League tables have become as powerful a weapon of control as the medieval thumbscrew. The terrified victims [that’s us] have complained and moaned and rushed to comply. The trouble is, like confessions produced by torture, the results have not always been the whole truth.”

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31. ONE IN, ONE OUT THE ASCL CHALLENGE

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33. SUPPORT PRESSURE

34. “To improve further, the school should andmiddot; raise standards in English in both key stages andmiddot; improve students’ progress especially in years 10 and 11 andmiddot; improve assessment for learning.”

35. “The future of Britain lies in the hands of 14 year olds.”

36. “If the diplomas don’t appeal to the full ability range and don’t earn their spurs over a period of years for teachers, parents, students, industry and universities, they will die in the water.”

37. Summary of the four points  Universities recognise the diploma  Independent schools offer the diploma  Clear link to work  A levels and GCSEs in diploma system

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39. The job of education is to raise people from what they are to what they might be William Temple