“I don’t want students to follow my instructions because they fear the consequences but because they respect me enough to do so. Challenging students remain just as challenging; quiet students live in constant fear.” - Ernulf Teacher - Warwick Mansell

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Warwick Mansell Tes Regional Commissioner blocked the school where I was a governor from joining a MAT we shared values with and made us joint one that sidelined governors & imposed a very different ethos.

Tom Forth School 'reforms' have a very mixed outcome: no real gains (in fact, poorly evidenced), large cost, lack of transparency, etc. See Warwick Mansell for much more on this.

Warwick Mansell Tes There is something else that strikes me…

The entire discourse around this important area of education system development, as represented by this article, is lacking in diversity of voices.

Warwick Mansell The rate of dilapidation of the school estate has accelerated in that period. Culminating in the risk from #RAAC but that particular one is just the very tip of the condition iceberg.The chasm now is circa £15 billion and that is without the costs related to #decarbonisation

Warwick Mansell I think you previously covered the issue …eviewfrombradwellcommon.wordpress.com/2020/12/20/sta…

Warwick Mansell In Milton Keynes, the RSC handed a secondary school to a small Catford-based chain of primary schools despite - in parallel - a different RSC taking a school away from them due to very poor performance

This was predictably a disaster. No one is responsible for it though

Warwick Mansell Tes Labour needs to remove them and bring schools back to local accountability.

Gosh-reactions to this tweet from yesterday by the SoS are not exactly positive.

Teachers: Serious topic. I strongly challenge the direction of travel of timing children's reading aloud with a focus on raising their speed of reading to increase their 'fluency'. I suggest this is completely wrong, and will be positivity cruel for some children. Ofsted