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The CEO on a moral mission to make schools inclusive again

Jonny Uttley, chief executive of The Education Alliance (TEAL) academy trust, recently asked his headteachers to write down all they ways they could “game” the progress 8 performance measure. They came up with eight actions – including moving pupils into internal alternative provision and off their roll, and targeting certain pupils for exclusion. Uttley has […]

Head turned sci fi novelist and teacher trainer Alex Prior

Alex Prior well knows how painful it can be as a headteacher to pour your energy into a school, only for it to be heavily (and to him unfairly) criticised by Ofsted. It happened to him twice, partly because he “never shied away from taking on difficult schools to which more sensible people would have given a wide berth”. […]