Sentences with phrase «academy head teacher»

But in a letter to Nicky Morgan, Sir Michael, a former academy head teacher, said problems at these multi-academy trusts often replicated those of the worst local councils, and were leading to poor results for too many pupils, particularly disadvantaged ones.

There can't be many schools, academy Head Teachers or HR Directors of Multi-Academy Trusts in England that wouldn't claim to be focused on improving...

And number five on that list I suggest is ridiculous, academy head teachers who have only recently converted their workplace certainly only have that limited experience and expertise, (their own school), however, there are some very experienced (in leading and managing) LA workplace head teachers.

Not exact matches

«A school appointing a new head; a change to academy status; a glut of teachers leaving; a financial crisis — all of these can affect an individual school for better or worse.

In April 2006 Des Smith, a head teacher who helped find sponsors for the government's flagship city academies programme, was arrested and questioned.

Tony Blair's personal fundraiser Lord Levy, Des Smith, a head teacher and member of the specialist schools and academies trust, and businessman Sir Christopher Evans who lent Labour # 1 million before the last election, were arrested by the police as part of the cross-party probe.

But the National Association of Head Teachers said it would support members who chose the academy option.

The three teaching unions also wrote a joint letter to the chairs of governing bodies and to head teachers, expressing their common belief that «academy status would bring neither you nor your school greater freedom, nor reduced bureaucracy, nor any long - term financial advantages.»

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Tony Draper, national executive of the National Association of Head Teachers, questions whether academy status is always the right answer for underperforming schools.

It's exactly what we did in education — with academies, free schools and new freedoms for heads and teachers.

Eva Moskowitz, head of the charter school system, accused the UFT of «sneaking into Success Academy schools to photograph our students, teachers and classrooms,» she said, in a letter to School District Special Commissioner Richard Condon.

He said he was also worried that some schools were now converting to academies and retaining their governing bodies, heads, and teachers.

This is something which has been very well documented and mourned in a report from the National Academy of Sciences that was issued by a committee headed by Norman Augustine just a few months ago and this report — which is called «he Gathering Storm» — lays out in some detail the concern that that [leaves us] with a long hole over the next couple of decades, because of weaknesses in [the] way we fund basic physical sciences, the way we are training people to do physical sciences, the way we treat science in elementary and high - school programs — all of those factors, the way we pay teachers, the way we use the patent system where we try to provide incentives in some of the physical sciences; we are losing our leadership gradually to other countries, especially in Europe and [of] particular concern in Asia, where the rise of science in, particularly China, to a certain extent India and other parts of Southeast Asia, are cause for long - term concern.

Led by Dulux Smarter Spaces Ambassador Matthew Burton of Educating Yorkshire fame, who is now Assistant Head Teacher at Thornhill Community Academy in Dewsbury, the initiative is informed by an influential coalition of education experts.

Matthew Cave, assistant head teacher at West Town Lane Academy in Bristol, is one of the teachers who uses Code Club to complement his school's curriculum learning.

Primary school leaders should «look to the positives» following controversial government academies announcement As the dust settles on the recent government academies announcement a leading educational resource and training provider has urged head teachers to «take stock and seek advice» before pushing ahead with «monumental changes».

This makes clear that the support provided by governors, local education authorities and academy chains to head teachers is equally as important as that provided to a teacher by line manager or head of department.

Prior to starting Envision Schools, I taught social studies, served as a student - activities director, and was a mentor teacher, a reform leader, and the head of a school within a school, Academy X, at Sir Francis Drake High School in San Anselmo, California.

Some 95 per cent of delegates passed a motion that «no schools should be forced to become an academy» at the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) conference in Birmingham.

The report raised concerns that the supply of new head teachers is declining just as the demand is set to increase, citing plans to create 500 free schools, which will require new executive head roles in multi academy trusts.

Final thoughts Clearly the responsibilities of the head teacher as accounting officer are crucial to the smooth running of an academy and in ensuring probity and financial stewardship.

The Chancellor's pledge to make every school in England into an academy shows a continued effort to place education into the hands of head teachers and teachers rather than bureaucrats, despite the heavy distraction of the European referendum.

Kerry Ace, CIPFA's expert on academies, examines the role of a head teacher as an accounting officer in a single academy trust

In the evaluation of the Learning Away case studies, Maggie Rose, head teacher at Timberley Academy quotes about the development of her staff: «Staff have developed a much greater confidence in their own teaching and it has also raised their aspiration in terms of the types of approaches they could use in their work.

We know that cost savings are always on the agenda when working with academies and that is why it is so important that the head teacher and senior teams get the correct advice from professionals working in facilities management.

When understanding the head teacher's role as an accounting officer, it is worth being reminded of the accountability structure in the academy sector.

Target Audience: 10,330 copies distributed to head teachers, Academies, and Local Education Authorities, throughout the UK, six times a year.

Leading the panel was Jayne Clarke, Executive Primary Principal at Bradford Academy and TES Head Teacher of the Year 2014.

Niall McWilliams, head teacher of Oxford Academy, believes that these projections are not far off and has cautioned that the great progress made in Oxford schools could be lost unless the government offers increased funding.

Head teachers at the NAHT conference have voted against government plans to force schools to become academies.

Mark Rhatigan, Executive Head Teacher, said: «At Erdington Academy our focus is not only on improving academic standards, but it is also on delivering innovative initiatives to help focus their minds on their future and raise their aspirations.

With soft landings, the handover of a school or academy is treated as a gradual process, rather than the standard way of doing things where the tape is cut, the head teacher given the keys, and the builder allowed to leg it into the night with a cheque in the back pocket.

Tim Coulson, Chief Executive of Samuel Ward Academy Trust is one of a number of senior MAT execs and head teachers who contributed to the research.

CIPFA's guide to the role of the CFO in academies will be of interest to head teachers, principals, members of governing bodies, senior management colleagues and finance practitioners who are new to the sector, as well as to CFOs themselves and to those aspiring to this demanding, exciting and crucial role.

Jeffrey Larsen is the Head Mathematics teacher at La Salle Academy, Lithgow, New South Wales.

The Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), National Union of Teachers (NUT) and National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) have joined together to question the academy plans and welcome the Labor Party's move to secure a debate in the House of Commons.

It is possible now for a relatively inexperienced head teacher with limited experience to become an executive principal and then a CEO of a multi academy trust.

Head teachers have called for pay levels for school staff and academy bosses in England to be fairer in order to stop massive pay gaps.

Angela Bell, Assistant Head Teacher at Royal Wootton Bassett Academy, felt there were several factors that needed to be considered when choosing a school website design company: «What could the company offer in terms of design, technical support and, most importantly, how simple would it be to maintain and edit the website in - house once it went live?

The head teacher of a school judged to be Good or Outstanding, irrespective of its context, is being encouraged to sponsor other schools and become de facto the executive principal and then CEO of the multi academy trust created.

A number of head teachers and educational professionals working within academies have expresses support for the new measures.

Working for one of the leading and largest academy trusts in the country, and liaising directly with heads and teachers every day, there is huge scope to shape the futures of tens of thousands of children and young people, which is enormously exciting.

[2] In an academy, the principal or head teacher is designated by the funding agreement as the «accounting officer» responsible for the financial and administrative affairs of the institution.

Steve Kernan, Head Teacher, Newington Academy, Humberside.

Executive head teacher Karen Holmes, of Saints Way Church of England Multi Academy Trust, said she was «furious» when she discovered the funding for her schools had come to an end.

Jo - Anne Charalambous, Head Teacher, Shafton Primary Academy.

The median gender pay gap for all teachers in all schools and academies is around 4 per cent, but the gap rises to almost 8 per cent for senior leaders and is highest at almost 10 per cent for head teachers and principals.

The reason why Academy MATs do not want to take on these schools, that compete with other schools serving more affluent postcodes that produce higher mean CATs score intakes, is because in most cases they know they can do no better than the existing heads and teachers.

A former trustee includes Mark Elms who was reportedly the «highest paid teacher» in the country in 2010 after earning # 276,523 while head of Tidemill Academy in Deptford, London.