ICSEI Day 1

Day 1: Some random thoughts (sent from my iPod touch).

Usual suspects:

• raising standards
• improving teacher quality
• assessment and accountability
• principal leadership.

Emerging suspects:

• early years and pre-schooling
• establishing curriculum standards for early years and pre-schooling
• distributed leadership.

Of interest:

• Do we measure school effectiveness based on school effectiveness of previous years, rather than for contemporary learning?
• Are we working towards sustainability of obsolete models of schooling?
• Are policy makers adequately trained to do their work?
• Is the Fourth Way more about the need to think and act both globally and locally in improving schools?