Culture, evidence and school improvement with Rachel Ball

Episode 143: This week on Thinking Deeply about Primary Education, I'm joined by the wonderful Rachel Ball for an exploration of how we might develop and engage with an evidence-informed culture of school leadership. As part of the chat we discuss... 1. What are your guiding principles for developing an evidence-informed and responsive CPD culture in school?  2. Research comes in many shapes and sizes and, arguably there’s “evidence” for most things in education. What’s your quality threshold for education research and the findings it presents?  3. What does implementation look like on the ground and can we generalise the process so that others might adopt a similar approach in their own setting? 4. How do you ensure buy-in from everyone? Is that even possible?  5. Have you ever realised that a change you made or a direction you had taken wasn’t working? And, if so, what did you do about it? 6. Any final advice for anyone who is trying to develop the professional development culture in their school and feeling enthused having listened to this episode? ...and much, much more! Whether you're new to the profession or an experienced senior leader, you won't want to miss this one! Support the podcast via www.ko-fi.com/tdape or by subscribing to www.youtube.com/@TDaPE  If you would like to submit a question, email us at [email protected] or join the TDaPE discord, where we have a special channel for unseen question submission.