ASCL Leadership Podcast

Latest updates for school, college and trust leaders from ASCL

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Hayley Dunn, ASCL Business Leadership Specialist and Julia Harnden, ASCL Funding Specialist discuss budget forecasting.

ASCL’s Primary Specialist Tiffnie Harris talks to colleagues from GL Assessment about what 2023 has in store - covering everything from getting the most from your data to the complexities of learning to read and supporting children with SEND. Join Tiff as she chats to Helen Robinson (Head of Customer Experience), Georgina Cook (Assessment Owner for the New Group Reading Test and Progress Test Series) and Emma Dibden (Assessment Owner for CAT4 and the Pupil Attitudes to Self and School).

Additional information:

To find out more about GL Assessment, visit their website: https://www.gl-assessment.co.uk/

If you’re already using tests from GL Assessment, visit their Support website for more detailed training and support: https://support.gl-assessment.co.uk/

To access the SEND assessment training Emma mentions, visit our SEND training area: https://support.gl-assessment.co.uk/training-assessment-insights/send/send-training/

If you would like to arrange a free one-to-one data consultation with our Assessment Insights team, register here: https://support.gl-assessment.co.uk/training-assessment-insights/assessment-insights/data-consultations/

January 2023

In this episode, Geoff Barton talks to PiXL CEO Rachel Johnson about her love of reading - why she reads, what she reads, how and when she finds time to read.

In this episode, Geoff Barton talks to the CEO of the Independent Schools Council, Julie Robinson, about (a) the landscape of independent education (beyond some of the stereotypes) and (b) the implications of Labour's tax proposals.

January 2023

Professor John West Burnham was one of education's most powerful thinkers, most prolific writers, and most inspiring speakers. He died in late 2022. In this tribute, Geoff Barton replays a conversation he had with John, recorded at the Suffolk Festival of Learning in summer 2018. Professor - you will be missed.

December 2022

ASCL's Primary Specialist Tiffnie Harris talks to Rebecca Leek, Executive Director of the Suffolk Heads Primary Association, about Christmas, Collaboration, Calibration...and Compost!

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December 2022

In this episode, Geoff Barton talks to the NEU's Mary Bousted about her book on teacher recruitment & retention, 'Support, not Surveillance'

Latest updates for school, college and trust leaders from ASCL

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During our visit to Northern Ireland, we discuss pupil wellbeing, mental health, and character education with colleagues at Glenolola Collegiate School and Strangford Integrated College. Then, Graham Montgomery, ASCL NI President, talks about the conference theme of 'connected leadership' and the Northern Ireland funding crisis.