Jeremy Hannay, Headteacher, Three Bridges Primary School - Doing away with the Ofsted style of management: how to reduce high stakes accountability and increase teacher autonomy
Release Date: 08/11/2019
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info_outlineIn this episode, Jeremy Hannay, Headteacher of Three Bridges Primary School in west London, shares his thoughts on
- How a trip to see the London 2012 Olympics gave him his life’s mission
- The best bits of the UK and Canadian education systems
- How teacher recruitment and retention crisie could become a thing of the past in every school
- The false dichotomy between high performance and happiness that exists in schools
- What performance management has been replaced with at Three Bridges
- How they have fostered the autonomy and trust that has been key to the success at the school
- The curriculum programmes they run and how they have adapted them to suit their context
- The importance of ‘building cathedrals’ rather than ‘cutting stone’.
- How co-construction can make accountability redundant
- The biggest challenges Three Bridge has had to overcome and what still stands in their way
- The conflict interests he sees between Ofsted’s two main functions and how that compares to the Canadian system
- How they have designed their programs of professional development
- The multi academy trusts he holds in the highest regard
- The book that has given him his mission and what that mission is
- How Three Bridges is supporting other schools
- The national and international trips he has made to find best practice
- How he uses the phrase “Teach me everything” along with Twitter to meet the needs of his school
- How he’s using external support to help his team drill down into their own strengths and weaknesses
- The question he wants every headteacher to ask themselves and why
- What he thinks the future of education will look like and why he is optimistic about it
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