From 11-13 March 2020, I was lucky enough to be invited to go to New York to look at innovative schools as part of a funded study trip with Big Education and the Big Leadership Programme. The programme looks at how as leaders, we might rethink education so that it take a more expansive view […]
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Lessons from New York schools
by Sarah Seleznyov, Director of London South Teaching School Alliance. From 11-13 March 2020, I was lucky enough to be invited to go to New York to look at innovative schools as part of a funded study trip with Big Education and the Big Leadership Programme. The programme looks at how as leaders, we might […]
Why does England exclude so many pupils?
A recent article highlights the huge discrepancy between exclusions data for England and Scotland and tries to work out why the gap is so huge. The article notes that almost 98% of pupils permanently excluded in the UK in 2016-17 were from schools in England. Contrast this with Scotland whose rates of permanent exclusion are […]