Best Practice

Some successful whole-school strategies

Collaboration and sharing ideas between schools is crucial. Fiona Aubrey-Smith reports from schools where strategies focused on behaviour, learning styles, and outdoor learning have proved successful

As the brilliant systems leader Anthony Alvarado often said, “isolation is the enemy of improvement", and with tighter budgets restricting the extent to which school leaders can get out of school, creative approaches to collaboration are becoming increasingly common and increasingly popular.

One of the many threads across SSAT's Primary Network has been the increasing popularity for our Network Leaders Days, half-day opportunities for leaders to visit carefully identified schools across the country to undertake tightly focused learning walks, be part of strategic debates and workshops, and become immersed in a particular aspect of the school, or more often the partnership within which the school sits.

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