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Tom Rees
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How quality CPD could help solve the teacher recruitment crisis
Instructional coaching is a dynamic form of CPD for teachers. It should be used more, say Tom Rees, CEO of Ormiston Academies Trust, and Josh Goodrich, CEO of Steplab
General
6 August 2024
Coaching, watering can plant
‘We need to talk about the curriculum’
Teachers must play a part in making curriculum a driver for school improvement – not a casualty of it, writes Tom Rees
25 March 2019
‘Teachers, remember to make yourself a priority’
One headteacher reflects on his own burnout and shares how to spot the signs and prevent it from happening to you
11 September 2018
‘If Ofsted wants to earn our trust, it should make these three positive changes’
Ofsted should audit safeguarding every year, depersonalise published reports and scrap the ‘outstanding’ grade, writes one executive head
2 May 2018
‘In this general election, teachers feel like children in a bitter divorce battle’
Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn treat education and schools like pawns in a vicious divorce – teachers would do well to hide in their metaphorical bedroom until the shouting is over
8 May 2017