The Second Pillar of Principled Curriculum Design: Content
Over the coming weeks, SSAT’s senior education leads, Alex Galvin and Colin Logan, will be looking at each of the four pillars in turn. Today, Alex and Colin consider the second pillar: Content.
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School Diversity Week 2022
School Diversity Week is a huge celebration of LGBT+ inclusion that takes place every June, opening up much-needed conversations about acceptance.
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Improving mental health and wellbeing issues in young people
Graham Moore from humanutopia reflects on the mental health and wellbeing issues facing young people today and how we need to re-imagine schooling in order to solve this crisis.
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The Four Pillars
SSAT’s “Four Pillars of Principled Curriculum Design” now has versions for mainstream primary and secondary and special schools. Over the coming weeks, SSAT’s senior education leads, Alex Galvin and Colin Logan, will be looking at each of the four pillars in turn. Today, Colin looks at how the resource developed and focuses on the first pillar, intent.
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Early Leadership Development – my story
I started teaching at the turn of the millennium. Reflecting on my early years, I am massively grateful for the many opportunities I was given to grow in a supportive culture that trusted me to take on leadership responsibility, even while I still had so much to learn.
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KS3 curriculum design: A scheme of work and a shift in pedagogy
A Leadership Legacy Project think-piece by Harriet O’Rourke, Sandbach High School and Sixth Form College
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Square pegs, round holes – Every child deserves success
A Leadership Legacy Project think-piece by Lucy Faux, Manchester Enterprise Academy
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Opportunities and relationships
Our third Summer Series event focused on one question: What makes the difference for a child or young person who is disadvantaged, vulnerable or in crisis?
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Children facing the greatest challenges need professionals who see beyond targets
Janeen Hayat from the Fair Education Alliance outlines four priorities for creating a more inclusive education system and what needs to happen to achieve it.
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Giving voice to our students of colour
Caludon Castle has always been a diverse school, situated in the north of Coventry. It’s not an easy process for a school to look into itself and see if, and how, racism is a problem. The difficulty comes from the structural and societal racism that impacts all of us (particularly challenging for white people to recognise), but also from the uncomfortable ‘truths’ that might be brought forward. Particularly tough when the school perception previously was that we were doing things well!
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