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How to use specialist teachers effectively in your school

Specialist teachers should be woven into the DNA of your school, not tacked on as a patch, says Jules Daulby It always strikes when I visit special schools how few interventions outside of the classroom they have. You may, as a mainstream leader be thinking “well, that’s obvious, the specialisms permeate through the school because, […]

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Teachers: The Michaela Way

This book is a pastiche of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. It substitutes matriarchs attempting to create divine children with teachers (at Michaela free school in north London) trying to shape disciplined and erudite scholars. Both rely on the same premise: a strict, no-nonsense and rigorous regime underpinned with fierce competition because the outside […]