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School improvement: What should collaboration look like?

Is collaboration the future of school improvement? Keith Wright reports from a gathering of education leaders at which this question formed the key topic of debate

There has been much discussion and debate in recent years about the schools inspection system and whether it really is effective as an engine for school improvement.

Some very exciting thinking about new directions for school accountability and improvement, many based around the idea of schools working together to help each other in their improvement journey, is emerging from this debate.

This so-called “collaborative improvement” approach – in which schools of similar types work together to review and support each other – has a lot of appeal for many school leaders.

In fact a recent survey by school improvement management business Bluewave Education appears to back this up.

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