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Headteacher Update Autumn Edition (September 2022)

The Autumn 2022 edition of Headteacher Update offers 48 pages of in-depth, research-based and expert best practice, advice and guidance relevant to primary schools. It also includes an eight-page Best Practice Focus setting out a comprehensive model for effective whole-school feedback and marking

This edition offers best practice articles covering topical issues including attendance, appraisal and performance management, CPD, closing the digital divide, getting homework right, emergency planning, peer review between schools, coaching leadership, school libraries and more. The edition also includes case studies, news and research summaries, comment & opinion, and the latest resources.

It features our latest eight-page Best Practice Focus special report (pages 21-28) entitled Effective feedback: A whole-school approach. Too often, teachers lack clarity about what feedback is and how to give it. On top of this, lethal mutations can blunt the impact of effective strategies. In this Best Practice Focus Robbie Burns considers what a comprehensive whole-school model of feedback – the feedback loop – looks like and how it can be implemented effectively

CLICK HERE: HTU Digital Edition Autumn 2022

Further edition highlights include articles on:

  • Working together on attendance
  • School improvement via peer review
  • Starting afresh: Leadership in 2022/23
  • The changing shape of performance management
  • Beating the plateau: Professional inquiry as part of CPD
  • A new look at primary homework
  • Emergency planning: Preparing for the unknown
  • Closing the digital divide: What can schools do?
  • Creating a culture of mental health
  • School libraries and reading development
  • 20 books to diversify your school library stock
  • The power of coaching leadership styles