Embedding strategies within a faculty is policy; monitoring and evaluating can become personal. At the heart of any strategy you implement are the students that your faculty teaches. As a middle leader, understanding this distinction is essential for the success of the strategy and therefore the success of your students.
My school is in a deprived area of inner city Coventry. We are well above the national average for Pupil Premium students, SEN students, ethnic minority students and English as an additional language students.
In August 2013, one term into the post of director of teaching and learning mathematics, we received the news that we had achieved the best GCSE maths results ever. We were ecstatic. For the first time we were in line with the national average for not only three levels of progress, but four!
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