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Josephine Smith
Josephine Smith is head of a secondary school within a MAT in Lincolnshire. She was previously a vice principal and head of English and director of Key Stage 4 in schools in Leicestershire and Rutland.
Josephine holds NPQH, is a Research Associate for the National College and has presented at several national conferences on partnership working, promoting parental engagement, cost effective CPD and performance management.
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The autumn term sees schools entering new territory and adjusting to a 'new normal'. Josephine Smith highlights eight preparation areas for senior leaders
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Give pupils a voice by providing Year 11 and Year 13 leavers with an exit survey to capture their experience of school. Josephine Smith provides example templates
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Deep dives into the curriculum include discussions with senior and subject leaders and teachers, scrutiny of pupils' work and lesson visits. Josephine Smith explains how to be ready
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Keeping good staff can increase productivity, save money and enhance your reputation. Josephine Smith offers strategies to make staff want to stay and ways to deploy them in your setting
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Exit interviews are used to learn the reasons for a person’s departure and gain information that can be used to improve an organisation. Josephine Smith offers advice for conducting them
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Setting objectives helps ensure staff development and improvement is linked to whole school priorities. Josephine Smith provides sample appraisal objective forms for teaching and support staff
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Download our school improvement plan templates to outline priorities and review and measure progress
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Quality assurance practices help determine school improvement by identifying development priorities. Josephine Smith advises how to critique your QA processes
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Intent, implementation and impact of the curriculum are the focus of the new inspection framework. Josephine Smith offers steps to work through to evaluate your curriculum
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Managing staff workload is an ongoing priority. Josephine Smith explains how senior leaders in her school used the DfE workload reduction toolkit to evaluate practices and the impact it had