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Brian Walton
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‘Testing has become like crack cocaine to the government’
The Reception baseline assessment is ludicrous: testing five-year-old children makes no sense whatsoever, writes one headteacher as he predicts that any results will be flawed from the start
25 April 2018
‘Trust in teachers remains high, but I wonder if that’s still true of school leaders?’
The public is aware of heads and their six-figure salaries, the luxury hotels, the cheating and the scheming, writes one headteacher. School leaders need to get a grip and stand up to the pressures of accountability
28 February 2018
Five things we must get right in education in 2018
Scrap Sats, concentrate on teacher wellbeing and three other things headteacher and blogger Brian Walton says we need to resolve for education to succeed in 2018
3 January 2018
‘Teaching is driving too many teachers to mental health problems’
...And it’s time we asked why, writes one experienced headteacher
18 December 2017
‘As a headteacher, I used to think of the shame I’d face if I lost my job. It now just seems like a matter of time’
It’s increasingly rare to see a headteacher survive forced academisation, and one stressed leader asks: how have we got to this cut-throat approach to headship? And why do we allow it?
23 November 2017
‘Leaders aren’t failing on behaviour - whatever people might say on Twitter’
Social media’s black-and-white approach to arguments strips vital nuance from complex debates over behaviour and exclusions, writes one primary headteacher
19 October 2017