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School-to-school collaboration: Four questions to ask

Schools cannot tackle the big issues by acting alone and need to embrace collaboration. The big question is how to start. Yvonne Gandy advises...

When bringing on the next generation of teachers and leaders and keeping them teaching and leading, as well as helping all schools improve, it makes sense for Teaching School Alliances (TSAs) and groups of schools to share their knowledge and resources and work together on a larger scale to address these kinds of issues.

Collaboration is important not just because of its messages about co-operation for the greater good but because it is the practical answer to the big issues our education system faces. The government has recognised this and put collaboration at the centre of its Teacher recruitment and retention strategy, which it published in January.

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