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Curriculum management
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How do you prepare students for employment? Jo Smith describes what her school do to ensure young people are aware of career and training options
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Are you undertaking curriculum planning or considering a curriculum re-fresh? Or just want a better understanding of what is meant by curriculum? Use these resources as a starting point
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Richard Sutton provides downloadable checklists and best practice tips for effective remote learning.
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Download this year planner for independent school heads of departments to help plan and manage your teaching workload alongside leadership commitments
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Headteacher Josephine Smith considers how to plan for different groups of pupils, plan the next steps in your catch up strategy and ensure you get best value from government funding
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Are you planning adjustments to the delivery of your academic curriculum? Josephine Smith suggests considerations for leaders in a secondary school
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The Embark Federation are kindly sharing their recovery curriculum with Optimus members. See example material and follow the link below to access the full resource bank
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Remote learning may be with us longer than expected. Hamish Mackenzie unpicks ways to make it better for both staff and learners
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The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a fast deployment of hardware and software solutions for remote learning. What behaviour change is needed for the technology to be used effectively?
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How is the Ofsted framework working out in practice? Based on feedback from our school improvement work, we summarise lessons learned so far