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Developing robust trust-wide monitoring systems for assessment data across your schools can be complicated and time-consuming. In their guest blog, Sue Macgregor and Jevon Hirst from ASCL Premier Partner Alps, share some of the advantages to developing a trust-wide monitoring system. 

As pressure on education budgets continues to increase, investing in CPD has presented leaders with difficult choices. In his latest blog, ASCL’s Thomas Freeney suggests ways leaders can maximise the impact of their CPD spending.  

The landscape of AI adoption in education may seem vast and complex, however, in this guest blog, Professor Rose Luckin provides assurance that you are not alone in navigating this new territory and offers practical advice on how to get started and progress in your AI journey.

As ASCL launches a new series of AI workshops around the country, ASCL’s Thomas Freeney shows how AI tools can revolutionise workload management and professional development in education in his blog.  

Gen Z adults are now part of the workforce and in the midst of a recruitment and retention crisis in education, we need to understand their priorities and do all we can to attract and retain new teachers to the profession.   Alex Atherton shares his findings in his guest blog. 

With exam season now underway, Ofqual has reminded us that pupils tempted to cheat by buying exam papers online face a double whammy of sanctions. In his blog, Pepe Di'Iasio suggests one reason for young people going down this route is the immense pressure the exam system currently places on them. 

Making your setting more sustainable may seem like a minefield of terms and requirements. In his guest blog, Robert Gould, Partner at Barker, decodes the jargon and sheds light on what schools and colleges need to know as they embark on their sustainability journey. 

Two years since the DfE published its Sustainability and Climate Change Strategy, how is your organisation managing the vital changes needed to ensure we are all working towards a sustainable future? In this blog, ASCL’s Emma Harrison introduces our Conference for a Sustainable Future which aims to support leaders on their sustainability journey. 

In his final blog as ASCL General Secretary, Geoff Barton reflects on how potholes are a visible symbol of decay but how – with respect to long-suffering motorists – the less-visible fractures in the education system are much more important.

The future of education is shifting and evolving as the needs of schools — and their teachers and learners — change. In their guest blog, Google for Education shares some of the ways AI is helping to make learning more accessible for everyone.

The government has announced that sixth forms and colleges will have to provide a minimum of four hours stand-alone teaching per week to students resitting their maths GCSE. Kevin Gilmartin explains why, in the midst of a major shortage of maths teachers, this policy just does not add up.

Last weekend's announcement of a new teacher degree apprenticeship pilot scheme for "up to" 150 apprentices is a worthy and well-intentioned idea, but why do governments continue to over-hype and over-state their messages, asks Geoff Barton in his blog. 

With AP waiting lists increasing, online alternative provision is a welcome solution — but leaders can look to online AP for more advantages than capacity alone, says Alessandro Capozzi, Executive Headteacher of ASCL Premier Partner Academy21, in his guest blog.

The Education Select Committee published their report into Ofsted this week, with one of the recommendations that inspectors should take schools' contexts into account. This ought to be a government priority, writes Geoff Barton. 

Christine Ellis, COO at Cranmer Education Trust, shares some of the ways her trust addresses the ongoing challenges in recruiting and retaining school business and support staff by focusing on the trust’s culture and people strategy. 

New Ofsted Chief Inspector Sir Martyn Oliver has decided to pause inspections in the wake of the inquest into the death of headteacher Ruth Perry. For some, this decision goes too far, for others, not far enough, writes Geoff Barton in his weekly blog. 

In part 2 of this two-part blog, ASCL Council representative for Virtual Schools, Andy Wright, and Matthew Cooke, Chair of NAVSH, highlight the work and role of virtual schools and their headteachers, and outline how, with strategic leadership, barriers to learning can be overcome. 

In part 1 of this two-part blog, ASCL Council representative for Virtual Schools, Andy Wright, and Chair of NAVSH, Matthew Cooke, highlight the work and role of virtual schools and their headteachers, and outline how, with strategic leadership, barriers to learning can be overcome. 

ASCL recently joined colleagues at the NAHT in calling for an immediate pause to Ofsted inspections. In his latest blog, Geoff Barton explains why Ofsted and the government need to respond positively for the sake not only of school leaders and their staff, but also for inspectors themselves.

When policymakers consider how to improve attainment, whether that is in PISA tests or other measures, it’s important that they are focusing on the right things, says Geoff Barton in his weekly blog.