Best Practice

School improvement: The patchwork quilt approach?

School improvement Whole-school issues Senior leadership
Best practice cannot become a patchwork quilt – stitched together from ideas, approaches and interventions seen elsewhere. We must always remember that context matters above all else, says Jonathan Cordiner


As headteachers, we love to gather best practice, don’t we? We don’t get the chance to do it as often as we would like, on account of how busy everything is within our own settings, but when considering next steps in our school improvement journey, we relish the opportunity to experience what is going well elsewhere.

Sometimes this is about attending an event where good practice is shared at a local or national level, sometimes it can be about working with other schools or settings, sometimes it is through our professional learning endeavours or even a “Learning Festival” or “Conference”.

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