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Geoff Barton
Geoff Barton
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‘We need to change the story we tell about our profession - to the world and to ourselves’
Teaching needs to be so intoxicating that leaving the classroom early becomes unthinkable. It’s up to us to create this narrative, writes ASCL leader Geoff Barton
26 October 2017
‘Today’s lobby is about whether our government values education enough to fund it properly’
As thousands of people prepare to lobby about school funding, ASCL leader Geoff Barton explains why he’ll be heading to the Houses of Parliament
24 October 2017
‘We must not let a mechanistic view of education push us to dismantle the very features in our schools that the rest of the world craves’
Our education system may not be perfect, but we have attributes that Pisa giants such as Shanghai are attempting replicate, writes ASCL leader Geoff Barton
18 October 2017
‘Leadership in public service - including in schools - is too punitive and too unforgiving’
School leaders can learn from Theresa May’s speech last week, writes ASCL leader Geoff Barton as he remembers his own humiliating and painful experience
11 October 2017
‘We owe it to our young people to make sure homelessness isn’t an invisible issue’
As he reflects on his time in Manchester, ASCL general secretary Geoff Barton asks: when did we let this surge of homelessness happen?
4 October 2017
‘Her speech might have been short on detail, but Justine Greening does appear to want to work with the profession’
ASCL’s general secretary gives his take on the education secretary’s speech today at Conservative party conference
1 October 2017