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Monthly Archives: May 2014
Weekly Newsletter Monday 26 May 2014 – The Growth Mindset edition
Full picture edition here – http://goo.gl/BhQV0z Introduction The principles behind Carol Dweck’s Growth mindset were well known before Dweck’s “Discovery”. Harking back to Reuven Feuerstein’s work in the 1950s with backward children in Israel and Professor Michael Shayer’s work in … Continue reading
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Beyond Hyperbole – what excellent really means?
Our March 2014 ISI Inspection report is now published. You can find the report here on the ISI website, though at the time of writing it was not showing, on our own website here at http://www.clairescourt.com/academic/inspection-reports, and by pdf download here. To … Continue reading
Weekly Newsletter – the ‘Institutional bewilderment’ edition
Introduction I attended the ISA Annual Conference this last week, and met with Mark Stevenson, one of our lead speakers at the conference. If you have 28 minutes to spare, then this Birkbeck lecture from last month captures the essence … Continue reading
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Newsletter Monday 12 May 2014 – ‘Discovering the Excellent’
Preamble Next week, our ISI Inspection report is to be published, and everyone linked to our school is more than eager to give it a good read. I have already blogged that the Inspectorate had an ‘excellent’ Inspection – suffice … Continue reading
The Penny Dreadful, the Ha’penny Dreadfuller – will we ever learn?
One of the education blogs I follow is that of Alex Quigley, Hunting English. He, like me, read today’s headlines on the BBC website and in the Guardian about a new English A level syllabus being steered to approval, involving some … Continue reading
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