The SSAT national conference has led a resounding battle cry for school leaders and teachers to wrest back the education agenda.
The event, which took place in Liverpool, was entitled Innovating Learning and presented a very different picture of the organisation historically associated with the promotion of specialist schools and academies.
The organisation, no longer funded by government, has dropped the acronym (it is now just SSAT) and is seeking to lead the profession in taking back from ministers the debate about the education, teaching and learning we need to offer students in the 21st century.
So keen is SSAT to wrest power back from Westminster that the usual ministerial invitation to its annual gathering was, last month, not forthcoming.
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