Ruth Ashbee
How To Think About “End Points”
The Ofsted School Inspection Handbook makes several references to “end points”. [Inspectors will look at]: the extent to which the...
Ruth Ashbee
- Nov 20
- 5 min
Why Templates Tend To Fail, And What We Should Do Instead
Knowledge-building for school leaders As school leaders we often want to make things better. Better curriculum. Better teaching. Better...
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Ruth Ashbee
- Nov 12
- 6 min
Student Voice, Assessment Theory and an Epistemology for School Leadership
We’re all familiar now with the fact that Ofsted use talking to students or “student voice” as one of their means of finding out about a...
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Ruth Ashbee
- Dec 19, 2021
- 8 min
Professionalisation and the Schools Discourse
The ideology of professionalisation first emerged in the nineteenth century, partly as the middle classes grew and began to seek a...
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