Notes on leading people and on starting over.
Today’s thought
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Future-Ready Starts on Monday
Every school strategy now mentions being future-ready.
Few of them change what happens in a Year 9 classroom on Monday morning.
If the future needs students who can question, collaborate and cope with uncertainty, the test is simple. Where in this week’s timetable do they practise those things? Where are they assessed? Who notices when they improve?
A future-ready curriculum is built in small decisions. The task with no single right answer. The lesson where the teacher talks less. The assessment that rewards thinking over recall.
The vision statement can wait.
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