Would you like your observations to be more about supportive professional dialogue rather than appraisals, pay and career stage?

Do you have a 'scatter-gun' approach to monitoring or do you have a clear, strategic overview of your teaching and learning?

Is your school improvement plan based on summative pupil outcomes or would you like to focus more on developing teacher skillsets?

Are you seeking to prioritise time and energy so that you can make good, distributed leadership sustainable?

As a busy and long serving Headteacher, I began to question some of the fundamental aspects of how schools are expected to improve. For example, if teaching and learning is always most important thing, then why do we spend so much time doing things that have little, genuine impact on outcomes?

Our school had been on a journey from special measures to two consecutive 'good' judgements. We had a lot of good things in place, but our approaches to observing and evaluating were time consuming, labour intensive and inaccurate - which also made good SEND and subject leadership challenging. Like many schools, we had an unhelpful legacy that seemed to focus more on 'evidence' rather than genuine growth, collaboration and improvement.

The idea of using a bit of simple tech as a tool to capture teaching and learning makes perfect sense. When we add dashboard analysis, photo-capture, instant reports, supportive teacher feedback and the ability to create and share content, then we're able to work more collaboratively, more accurately and much more efficiently. We can also avoid checklist monitoring, without using Ofsted descriptors or Teacher Standards.

I also know how busy you are. We offer free leadership training and a Youtube channel full of 'How-to' videos so that there's no cascading for you to do. We also have a Facebook school leaders community for your team to connect, collaborate, share and download free expert content.

‍We're now proud to be working with over 70 local authorities, celebrating over 1000 school leaders on the platform and have been finalists for the BETT and ERA leadership and management awards. If you'd like to take a closer look, book in for a friendly demo and I'd be very happy to show you around.‍

Don't observe, capture.

David.