Best Practice

Case study: School-led research

Teacher research has been placed at the heart of teaching and learning at Wycombe High School and this has led to national recognition. Dorothy Lepkowska reports

A school that has been built around the words “courageously”, “faithfully”, “joyfully” suggests there are opportunities for those who wish to embark upon innovative and collaborative practice.

And this is true for staff at Wycombe High School in Buckinghamshire. Over the past four years, the school and its partner schools in the Cygnus Teaching Schools Alliance have been carrying out studies that have had a positive impact on student performance, teacher effectiveness and provided new and exciting strategies for learning.

The quality of their work has been recognised by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) which has awarded the schools its Research Mark accreditation at advanced level.

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