At iAbacus, we’ve seen how hard schools are working to offer high quality remote education in very challenging conditions. We take our...

John Pearce asks why the notion of teacher growth is exciting a new generation of school leaders. He looks beyond the feel-good factor to...

iAbacus now has the option of including your own review statements which users then RAG rate – making it quicker and easier for them to ...

Feedback from schools inspected since September 2019 indicates that Ofsted inspectors are spending less time with senior leaders, and...

The Scottish Government’s 2019 National Improvement Framework is a step ahead of its southern neighbours because it completes the cycle...

The 2019 Ofsted Inspection Framework is live, but schools still face uncertainty about what is meant by “deep dives”, a “top level view”...

A review of job adverts recently revealed the skills and experience schools are looking for in their middle leaders. Are expectations...

One thing we can predict about the early days of the new Ofsted framework is this: inconsistency will be a problem. iAbacus co-creator...

Thud! The 2019 Ofsted framework just landed in your in-tray. What’s your response? Former headteacher and iAbacus creator John Pearce...

iAbacus users can now access the 2019 Ofsted criteria in iAbacus via a template that can be customised to suit your context and...

Our Managing Director Daniel O’Brien recently heard Lee Owston, Senior HMI in the North East, Yorkshire and Humber, speak to a room full...

In 2005 the DfES published the seminal Middle Leaders’ Self-evaluation Guide. So what have we learned about self-evaluation since then?...

If you are not sure how to get your team to buy into your vision, here is an activity that may help. It is also great professional...

We are delighted that Andrew Clay, Head of Counden Court School in Coventry, was featured in the Association of School and College...

With World Mental Health Day falling in October, we thought it was timely to look at how schools can use iAbacus® to tackle the worrying...

Most schools are flooded with data. The challenge is to quickly and easily identify which are the nuggets of gold that will help to...

Heads of departments/ faculty often know instinctively what their strengths and weakness are, but being so close to the action, it can...

This blog is a serious challenge to professionals in and beyond education. How much time do you spend chasing targets set by others,...

We recently received a Tweet asking why the iAbacus process asks users to make a judgement before inputting evidence. It is a subject...

As you know, the iAbacus process (see: www.iabacus.co.uk/model) can be used across all areas of school development using a range of...