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Welcome to the Rethinking Education Round-Up!
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Hello my fathomless friends
This is the first in a series of occasional newsletters called the Rethinking Education Round-up. Sometimes, I'll provide a quick round-up of exciting stuff happening in education reform-land. Other times, I’ll hone in on a single issue.
Today, I’d like to draw your attention to three exciting things - well, I think they’re exciting anyway:
The Education Policy Alliance
Upcoming events
An amazing pod-stat
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OK, let’s get into it:
1. THE EDUCATION POLICY ALLIANCE
For the last 6 months or so, I’ve been beavering away behind the scenes with a lovely group of people to see whether we might come up with some sensible education policies. We’re calling ourselves the Education Policy Alliance.
Our aim is to create an education system that a) works for all young people and b) is centred around human flourishing. We’ve identified five policy areas that we’re going to look at initially:
Ofsted
Mental health and wellbeing
Recruitment & retention
Autonomy, innovation and diversification
The policy environment
We plan to publish our first consultation paper, focusing on Ofsted, in the next week or so. Watch this space!
2. THREE UPCOMING EVENTS
These are either free, or have discount codes for friends of Rethinking Ed.
Making Change Stick: A Practical Guide to Implementing School Improvement
A FREE 1h webinar on implementation science
Who’s it for? Anyone interested in change management, or becoming a more effective human being
Wed 14th June, 4-5pM
Sign up for FREE here
Metacognition in Action: A one-day workshop for Senior Leaders and Teaching and Learning Leads
Who’s it for? School leaders mainly, but really for anyone with an interest in metacognition. My recent blog Metacognition will set you free explains why you should come
Fri 23rd June, 9.30am-4pm
Tickets here - use the promo code REMET20 for a 20% discount
The Rethinking Education conference 2023
Who’s it for? Literally anyone with an interest in doing education differently - age 8 to 108. The line-up will be announced soon - it’s shaping up nicely...
Sat 23rd September, 2023, 9am-4.30pm
Tickets here - use the promo code RE20FRIEND for a 20% discount. There are also free and reduced price tickets available for those that need them. Budget need not be a barrier to attendance
3. AN AMAZING POD-STAT
It recently came to my attention that the Rethinking Education podcast is in the top 3% listened to podcasts on the planet, out of over 3 million podcasts globally. Not bad for a long-form podcast about education reform!
Here are a couple of recent highlights, in case you missed them:
Right, that should keep you going for a while.
Until the next time…
James