Les Walton CBE FRSA Phd (Hon)MEd
leswalton.bsky.social
Les Walton CBE FRSA Phd (Hon)MEd
@leswalton.bsky.social
Chair of Association of Education Advisers supporting IQSEA, the international standard for school improvement
Visiting Professor Sunderland University. Author,’Education the Rock&Roll Years’ ‘Chronicles of the Time Travelling Teacher’.
Reposted by Les Walton CBE FRSA Phd (Hon)MEd
My piece in @schoolsweek.bsky.social Time everyone moved beyond petty politics and hyperbole. We have much more important things to focus on. We should be re-imagining the school system to serve all young people properly not re-hashing 10 year old arguments.

schoolsweek.co.uk/political-po...
Let's get a sense of proportion about the schools bill
Its provisions are as mild as they are necessary, and they don't even begin to challenge our underlying problem
schoolsweek.co.uk
January 27, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Reposted by Les Walton CBE FRSA Phd (Hon)MEd
👐 'Delivering the government's opportunity mission could make this political moment the most consequential for young people in our lifetimes'
Let's get a sense of proportion about the schools bill
Its provisions are as mild as they are necessary, and they don't even begin to challenge our underlying problem
buff.ly
January 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Eight years ago a meeting was held in the DfE attended by the key national leaders inc Schools Commission @ofsted and the DfE. Applying the Pareto Principle decided a quality standard for school improvement advisers would have a major impact on school improvement.

schoolsweek.co.uk/how-ministers
January 27, 2025 at 6:01 PM