 I want to share a piece of research with you. Now you know I'm a big fan of Ofsted and it's become a big passion of mine to try and help reform the system and support all of us working in the profession. This was published in June, 2022. So I've had it on my to-do list for quite some time and I finally got into the details and without going through the whole paper because it's here for you to access and I've got a blog post which I'll go through and sign post to. But essentially, this report highlights the characteristics of state schools in England that are stuck as defined by Ofsted and most often found in urban cities and towns. And the questions in this report unpick what are the characteristics of these schools, what contributes to these schools being stuck, how is the overall judgment of requires improvement by Ofsted in inadequate related judgments and compare that to kind of previous frameworks. How does that all pan out? Other questions that are asked is how do head teachers, teachers and governors of stuck schools perceive the validity and fairness? Now I haven't lived outstanding in adequate schools. I definitely, how do you take that hard message and is it valid and reliable? And what are the stakeholder views of how inspections can support their schools in these circumstances? I guess without going into the full details, I guess some kind of key messages that the research unpicked. So this is Ofsted reports between 2005 and 2018, 16 case studies that include 580 schools that are defined as always languishing in Ofsted requires improvement and inadequate. They found that turnovers very high in these schools for no apparent reason. These schools also have higher mobility rates so there lies the challenge with people that choose to work there. Governance changes also and what else? Higher proportion of vulnerable students, higher proportion of SEM students, higher proportion of pupil premium students. And we know that one or two of these schools buck the trends but many of these schools get into a vicious cycle between Ofsted grades being judged in this way. So it's worth a report. Let me just put my blog summary on the screen. So I'm just gonna check that you can see this. So I'm working on two screens here yet. So you should be able to see it. This is my summary of the research, 12 kind of findings that harm our schools and what we can do to create a better inspection system so that it doesn't perpetuate this inequality that we have. So you've got the direct link to the paper there. Now I'm also gonna share school dash. Now if you've not come across school dash as a school leader you've been hiding under a hull. So what this website's brilliant at and there is a subscription model but this is free is Timo who's the founder of school dash a super, super clever guy and dabbling into some of my doctoral research I have to say but fascinating stuff and keeps me on my toes. He's looking at the linguistics analysis of Ofsted reports. So I'll just get to that best bit and what's really interesting with this is you can kind of look at, so if I just zoom in here so you can see this a little bit bigger, there we go, is comparing all Ofsted reports. So if I just pop over here to COVID you can see that in inspection reports never mentioned before a slight spike, January 2020 then a big spike and then you can see that the references in Ofsted reports are slowly disappearing. Let me pop over to teaching. The word teaching used in Ofsted reports. Look at this, frequent and now pretty much non-existent. Compare the change to learning. I mean, I find this stuff fascinating. You can kind of see how policy evolves. The learnings are frequent word, no surprise. The word e-backs if you're working in an English secondary school look the word e-backs getting more of a mention you'll also be not surprised to find curriculum is getting a much higher mention than it ever has before. People working in the early years so our younger schools, it's generally there was a little spike early 2010 but it's kind of stayed consistent over the last decade ago. Phonics, a high spike. So if you're interested in linguistics and what Ofsted use in their reports to schools in the general public there's tons of stuff in here. I'll give you one more, British values. So if you think about the rhetoric with politics online in the cross English education you can see how British values was a recent reference not so long ago, 10 years ago and it's slowly back on the increase. So that's that. So I'm gonna leave things there. There's the blog you need to read. Ofsted 12 consequences that harm schools got cased to the on new research on stuck schools across England. What makes these schools always rated good? Sorry, it requires improvement or inadequate by Ofsted. Now I've got a resource with you to finish. So it's a bit of a gloom and doom and strike action here in England today mid January 2023. This is a resource. Now, I know some of you lead your own teacher CPD sessions and some of you lead it for others. So this is the resource in keeping more five minute lesson plan another five minute template for you to think through key decisions. So essentially what you've got on this and you can download this off the site but I've got my kind of what, why, how methodology I've used for the last seven years a fact longer than that probably 15 plus years to make sure no stone is left unturned. So what you've got in the slides are how all the kind of key decisions I go through step by step. And this is what I go through when I'm having a planning meeting with each school, college, provider whatever it might be. So if I just waste to the end of the slides but you've got the blank template you can fill in as you're on the phone and adapt it to suit your own circumstances but this is essentially what I go through. Now I haven't edited the first slide very well I need to go back and do that. But if I just talk you through the methodology because normally I'd destroy your number one here first but the big picture is who you're working with an online call, a physical meeting who's the client, who's the audience what's the exact post code if you're traveling I mean I travel all over the place so you need to know exactly where you need to be and by when. And the audience, so what do they currently know what have they been working on what are the current challenges definitely worth asking what sensitive issues to avoid so you don't put your foot in it the key goals that stick ability again what's the theme for the day what's the main outcome what's the ideal scenario in the time that you've given what's the worst thing that you could do that wouldn't make a difference so you know talking about theory perhaps for most teachers rather than the practical a room of researchers let's talk about the theory maybe the practical so always check and then it's just useful to find out how people came to find you or why they're asking you to deliver because often that's quite a useful bit of information before you arrive the logistics, the start time, the end time slides, the technology, the setup of the room all those types of things the demographics of the school I always look carefully at the school context publish reports, publish data so there's lots of work that happens before I turn up now the boring bits are essentially the paperwork the invoices, the agreed terms external people coming in from outside etc, etc I always also once we've met with the client so the school, college and this scenario I read their teaching and learning policy their appraisal policy any documentation, any data, any reports to help get a clear picture on the day and from the pandemic I suppose I've traveled my workload in some respects but I do an online pre-CPD event before I arrive so there's no surprises people get to know each other you can set the scene set a little bit of thinking homework then we do the physical event together and then four to six weeks after to add some value to hold myself and other people to account we do a little online session so what happened next? here's a recap, here's something new and then that feedback part every school, college I visit I'll always leave a social media footprint so Google reviews, tweets, those types things to help boost local reputation, admissions teacher applications, recruitment, retention, etc and then I guess from my part for teacher comes up and absolutely loves it grabbing some feedback asking that question how can I improve it to always be as best that you can and if you can grab a little bit of video or a quotation from them then it's good for future references so that's what I use and that's my five minute event planner to make sure that the CPD I deliver is the best that it can be now if you want to find this on my site I'm just going to wrap things up and finish off but all you need to do is pop over to the resources tab on teacher toolkit there's now over 230 public resources there's lots more behind the scenes from members but there it is there grab it while it's free there's tons of stuff inside there and while we're at it remember the toolkit monthly membership there's over 3,000 teachers in here now grabbing all my best stuff behind the scenes so currently we're looking at grammar and next week we'll return to how learning happens and a teaching and learning theme for the spring one last thing one last thing while I'm at it and I've got your attention and I promise I'm going to go I'm only going to do this once because I'm doing it physically in schools at the moment so things are very busy but I'm listing my online course for guide to memory so I've got four sessions on Saturdays to kind of capture teachers in their own time fingers crossed your employer will pay for this service but try and make sure that I can meet your needs outside of working hours my plan is to encourage you to become a learning expert through some of the things that I've seen researched, learned and tried for the last seven or eight years or so to publish my book guide for memory so if you're interested that tab there the hyperlink at the top online training other than that I'm going to stop things there difficult times for us all at the moment strike action costs to live and et cetera so let's keep talking to one another and I'll leave things there I'm going to try and keep up with my live streams every Monday other than that you know where I am send me an email if you need anything bye for now and I'll see you next week