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School improvement: Solutions to five common challenges

School improvement Whole-school issues Senior leadership
In a recent edition, inclusion expert Daniel Sobel described the five challenges that he often sees in vulnerable schools. He now attempts to offer some advice on tackling these key issues...

In February, I described five recurring systemic problems that I have noticed through my work supporting challenging schools (Challenging schools: Five recurring themes, February 2017: http://bit.ly/2m1pKMp).

I promised I would follow up with some solutions to these problems. However, I included a caveat: I am sceptical of “initiatives”, because they often disguise rather than illuminate the unique problems schools face, encouraging the application of “one-size-fits-all” solutions.

I would like to address these concerns in a non-linear and non-consecutive way because I don’t think there is one solution per problem. Instead, I think that some broad-stroke approaches can address these quite different areas in a virtuous circle with cumulative effect.

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