Example 2 – Click here to quickly decide a focus for this year’s School improvement
- Relationships –
- Do you need to improve the way people relate to each other
- Do you need to forge new relationships with local organisations?
- Do you need to improve relationships with parents?
- Environments –
- Are all your learning environments promoting your ethos / promoting learning?
- Opportunities –
- Do you need new learning opportunities for staff?
- Are there curriculum opportunities that require refresh or improvement?
- Are there the right opportunities to develop essential skills?
- Are there the right opportunities to address inequality and extra curricular chances?
- Resources –
- Are there any resources that could be purchased/refreshed to improve learning?
- Distribution of Leadership
- Are all people in the school aware of what part they can play in improvement?
- Are students provided with opportunities to lead ideas and projects?
- Is leadership developed through the right balance of coaching and challenge?
- Evaluation
- Do you have strong systems of quality assurance?
- How do you know which teachers, which projects and which investments are having the most impact
- Is examination success analysed and what strategies for improvement arise from this?
- Recognition
- Is excellence rewarded?
- Are all capabilities and achievements given praise? Are all opportunities for praise used?
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