News

Superhead researchers reveal 9 indicators of a successful ‘turnaround’ headteacher

Heads with the best long-term school improvement plans are often nearly fired two years into the job simply because...

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
News

‘Superhead’ Jo Shuter has teaching ban overturned

A superhead who was banned from teaching for life over her expenses can now return to the classroom after...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

SSAT 2016: We are in a new education age obsessed with identity, says Andy Hargreaves

English schools are “way ahead of most of the world” in terms of collaborating to improve opportunities for pupils,...

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
Opinion

Historians make the best superheads. Ugh.

While it is easy to lie with statistics, it is even easier to lie without them. And if you...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
News

PE and RE teachers are least effective superheads, new study reveals

Heads who taught PE or RE before leading failing academies are more likely to adopt a damaging “short-termist” approach...

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
Opinion

Super heroes don’t solve problems, they punch people

Watching Nicky Morgan getting beaten up by her own party over forced academy conversions, I suddenly realised the fatal...

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips