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Practical articles on careers, teaching, leadership and making professional development useful.
Latest · Choosing an assessment
Teacher or Leadership assessment: which to take
How to choose between the Teacher and Leadership development assessments, when both are worth taking, and how access works for now.
Read the articleAssigned assessments
Assigned an assessment at work? What to do first
How to start an assessment your organisation has assigned, why you do not need to buy it, and how to find out who can see your report.
Leadership development plans
Turn leadership insights into a development plan
How to test leadership insights against real practice, what to set as short-term, medium-term and long-term goals, and how a coach checks your assumptions.
Teacher development
Turn a training day into a classroom change
How to turn a training day or development reflection into one classroom change, what evidence to gather while you try it, and how to judge whether it helped pupils.
Coaching with a report
Use your assessment report in a coaching session
What to bring to a coaching conversation about your assessment report, how to test it against real practice, and how to pick one development priority.
Leadership judgement
Good judgement in school leadership
How school leaders can tell sound judgement from quick decisions, what a strong answer to a hard case contains, and how to practise it.
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Turn insight into a useful conversation.
Explore your assigned assessments and use your report to prepare for coaching and development planning.