Back to school

Tell us about your role I’m privileged to be Headteacher at Kingsthorpe College in Northamptonshire, a mixed comprehensive school with just over 1,400 students.   Why did you decide to become an ASCL Council member? I’m the Vice Chair of the Leadership and Governance...

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Prioritising professional development in the face of decreased spending

By Thomas Freeney , Leadership Development Manager, ASCL   Over the past decade, schools and colleges have faced a challenging landscape when it comes to investing in continuing professional development (CPD) for educators. To meet ever-tightening budgets, CPD has experie...

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Leading School Improvement: Supporting vulnerable learners to achieve, working in partnership with V

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We’re All Leaders of Language: A whole-school approach to EAL

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Who can join

We also welcome colleagues who have whole-school, college or cross-trust responsibilities, such as SENDCOs, ALNCOs in Wales, HR managers, and trust curriculum leaders.  And we welcome those working at a senior level in other education organisations, such as education chariti...

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The Forgotten Third

The Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) launched an independent Commission of Inquiry in October 2018 to look into how to improve the prospects of what we have called ‘the forgotten third.’ These are the students who do not achieve at least a grade 4 standard p...

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Professional Development Across the UK

ASCL offers a wide range of PD events tailored to the needs of school, college and trust leaders in England, Northern Ireland, and Cymru. England – National events Webinar series (with topics including AI, resource management and pensions) New to the Senior Leadership Te...

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Compliance Through Connection: Building the 'how' to strengthen our protective capacity to safeguard

by Jason Tait, Director of Pastoral Care and DSL, and co-founder of The Student Voice and RESPOND Safeguarding Darren Singh-MacPherson, Director of inclusion, Wellbeing and Compliance, Co-founder of RESPOND Safeguarding Are we doing things right - complying with policy...

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ASCL influence - Autumn 2023

Working on your behalf to influence government policy Ah, autumn. Season of mists, mellow fruitfulness and ministers setting out their stalls at party conferences. As usual, ASCL attended the conferences – hosting our own fringe events, speaking on panels and meeting with...

/Leader/Issues/2023-Autumn-term/ASCL-Influence-Autumn-2023 09/11/2023 09:06:14

ASCL UK - Autumn 2023

Excellence for all In making my Leader magazine debut, I first want to pay tribute to my predecessor, Robert Wilson, who retired at the end of August. Robert is respected across the sector and his relationships were pivotal to ensuring ASCL Northern Ireland’s voice was hea...

/Leader/Issues/2023-Autumn-term/ASCL-UK-Autumn-2023 09/11/2023 10:34:53