Welcome to the new edition of Trust. I am pleased to provide my synopsis of the range of topical subjects covered in this issue.
Read moreThe government continues to find it challenging to meet its recruitment targets for teachers – not least in shortage subjects. Meanwhile, a significant...
Read moreIn their excellent book, The Founder’s Mentality, Zook and Allen talk about the insurgent mission as one of the key features of the founders of successful...
Read moreAt the beginning of the original Academies Programme many curious school leaders looked across the Atlantic to learn from the US Charter schools movement,...
Read moreDo you know how well your school trust is positioned to achieve its goals or what elements influence its ability to implement change successfully?
Read moreThe premise of Patrick Lencioni’s excellent book, The Advantage, is that the single greatest advantage any company can achieve is organisational health....
Read moreTo put this in some context: academisation is still relatively young. And in this short space of time, those who academised have had to formalise collaboration...
Read moreIn a period of political uncertainty, many trusts find themselves facing forceful intervention by the DfE when one of their academies gets into trouble....
Read moreAs education leaders, but also as parents, I think we can all agree that reading is at the heart of all learning. So I found it encouraging that, since...
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