Blog posts by SSAT

Danielle Lewis-Egonu is deputy CEO for the Golden Thread Alliance, a newly formed multi academy trust. Danielle is also a member of SSAT’s primary network steering group. Here are Danielle’s reflections on the theme of women in leadership and education.

In his speech at the Conservative Party conference last week, the Prime Minister launched the paper A world-class education system: The Advanced British Standard.

Invicta Grammar School has just become one of only three schools nationally who have been recognised for ‘transforming’ practice in all 12 strands of the SSAT Framework for Exceptional Education.

St Andrew’s Catholic School in Leatherhead, Surrey has just become one of only three schools nationally to be recognised for ‘transforming’ practice in all 12 strands of SSAT’s Framework for Exceptional Education.

A new partnership between the Chartered College of Teaching and SSAT will support teachers to embed formative assessment practices in their classrooms.

Schools are facing the worst teacher recruitment crisis since the Second World War, but there is little recognition of this in the mainstream media and little comment from the DfE.

World Environment Day is an annual event celebrated on 5 June to raise awareness about environmental issues and promote actions to protect our planet.

Leadership progression in education is not a level playing field. Whether deliberately or unwittingly, women, and particularly women from ethnic minorities are frequently disadvantaged.

The most widely spoken phrase during the launch of the Children’s Charter – a pledge for children was “It is time for change”.

Katharine Carruthers OBE is Director of the Mandarin Excellence Programme at the IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society. Katharine is an international expert on the teaching of Chinese and a driving force behind the teaching of Chinese in schools in England.