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It’s not easy to turn a school around, but the principles are simple
It’s not easy to turn a school around, but the principles are simple

Abandonment and Enhancement – Assessment and Expected Learning Gains #Great Teaching
Lots to digest in this
One of the challenges we face as a profession is that we are much better at using the word “and” as opposed to the word “instead”. We’re better at “yes” than “no”. It leads to initiative and implementation overload.
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Designing a new post-levels curriculum and assessment model from scratch
This is the 5th post in a series about how we are designing our own post-levels curriculum and assessment model from scratch.
The story so far:
- The Spy Who Loved Us – Part 1: “The name’s Beyond…..”
- An Ethic of Excellence
- Using cognitive science to inform curriculum design
- Assessing without levels
This latest update contains a miscellany of information and ideas that I’ve shared at our second curriculum conference and most recently at the Dare to imagine – Education for the 21st century conference and the Cramlington Festival of Learning TeachMeet. It attempts to pull together more detail on:
- context and why we are moving away from levels
- the interplay between curriculum planning and assessment
- tracking of progress
It also includes a number of curriculum planning tools that could be used to adopt a common planning framework.
A new taxonomy?
Most of us are familiar with Bloom’s taxonomy and the SOLO taxonomy, however, the end of statutory levelled…
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