Curriculum Enhancement
Why does Curriculum Enhancement (CE) matter? Contact Ratios and Pupil Teacher Ratios are familiar to most school leaders as measures of classroom resourcing. At the most simplistic level, given that they have been around for a long time and the problems of funding that are now facing schools, one could ask whether the majority of […]
Dream the Impossible Dream
ICFP, Integrated Curriculum Finance Planning, coined by Kate Copley a Deputy Director within the Department for Education (DFE), is the term that the DFE is now using to describe a process that has had a number of names in recent years. Some will recognise ‘Curriculum Led Finance Planning’ (CLFP) used by Outward Grange Academy Trust (OGAT) and various NPQH/NPQEL providers to describe a […]
Rebel Leadership
How many innovators have been lost to organisations because leaders were unwilling or threatened by the maverick who would not conform. So many organisations spend so much time and energy on trying to make middle tier leaders conform to the ‘corporate method’ that they forget that ‘there more than one way to skin a cat’ […]