Learning from good and outstanding practice

Mini-meetings can make major changes to pupil attainment, teacher/SLT relationships, staff’s sense of support, and more. Nicki Jaeggi shares how holding fast, focused and frequent pupil progress check-ins between class teachers and the SLT led to measurable improvements at her school. She explains how to make 15 minutes make a difference by focusing on pupils’ work and setting SMART actions to take back to the classroom.

Get advice from our associate experts on what makes a school 'outstanding' and how you can get there. You'll find features of 'outstanding' practice for each Ofsted judgement.

How do you learn to be a leader? Sam Strickland, principal of an all-through school and author of books on school leadership, gives his top tips for becoming a leading light in your school. Find out how any level of leader can drive top-down change, communicate effectively and champion the curriculum while staying true to the school’s ethos and moral purpose.

Get advice and inspiration from other schools about how they turned the dial to push school improvement, and to go on to be rated ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted.

Understand what makes leadership 'outstanding'. Based on extracts from recent 'outstanding' Ofsted reports, find suggested actions to help strengthen your leadership in key areas.

Find out what schools in trusts find helpful about their MATs, and where the schools and the MATs face challenges. This research also covers what most MATs do similarly and what differs from trust to trust - use our summary to get straight to the bits you can learn from.

Find out how to sustain and improve 'good' teaching to make it 'outstanding'. Discover the key concepts of an 'outstanding' lesson, and see what Ofsted said about teaching in 3 'outstanding' schools.