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Not By Rote! Open Book Exams!
Open Book Exams help to assess learner readiness, apply course content to given scenarios, analyse case studies and connect with real-life situtaions.
School exam focus leaves students ‘badly prepared for university’
Current methods of assessing children in school mean they are unprepared for the demands of higher education, a new report reveals.
Leadership can be Imperfect
Leadership can be imperfect. "In a way, imperfect leadership is the essence of professionalism. If the imperfections are COLLECTIVE rather than INDIVIDUAL, they increase the prospects of getting things RIGHT, and of taking the collective responsibility rather than...
School With No Exams
Pupils assessed on body language, academic effort ! See this article attached. "Exams create immense stress, narrows the curriculum and has led to an industry of grind schools that unfairly favour the students of economically privileged parents (Hargraves, 2024).
Leadership from the Middle
"Our role is to help make sense of what we see and hear, feed it back, and use it to affirm, challenge, and stretch what educators are doing together with a trusted and collaborative relationship of critical friendship"(Hargreaves, 2024, p. xi). This is the "Why"...
It is all about Relationships
In schools we're often caught in the pursuit of quantifying the unquantifiable. As teachers, we strive to measure aspects of student life that inherently resist simple metrics – wellbeing, effort, collaboration, character etc. But the challenge isn't just in the...





