Yes – one or other of us would have to have screen shared for it to be archived. A good point – thst’s why I think this needs careful orchestrating.

Good performance management should not be a stick to beat teachers with nor is it unproductive. I am impressed with the early statements and ideas released by Sir Michael Wilshaw. He is a teaching professional with outstanding results under his belt. His methods have been shown to work in a challenging environment.

Some of the solutions are routed in the past and some simple principles have to be adopted. The fact is that just like every other walk of life, there are those unsuited to the profession, or whose standards are not good enough, those who are lazy as well as those who are incompetent. The answer to some of that is through nuturing through inspiring leadership to deliver improvement and some is through encouragement to go elsewhere for employment.

They decided to deal with the failure with a set of principles, including no privatised schools, local control with national standards for educational provision, support for teachers, etc, etc. They actually got a lot of these ideas from pre-Baker England …

And yet, England is stuck with people like Gove, Wilshaw and Hutton who seem to think that the way to making the system work better is … to keep on repeating everything that’s failed (except at a higher volume).

Unfortunately those abusing, sorry, I mean in power still have not understood the one very fact that teaching is an incredibly complex process and within that process, much is immeasurable.

They see education only in their terms i.e. what worked for them and assume it works for 100% of students in the country.

They are frankly complete arses.