Howard Sharron

Top Coaches Unite to Make Wellbeing The Key School Improvement Strategy

A new programme seeks to move Wellbeing to the centre stage of school improvement. Howard Sharron, editor-in-chief of TeachingTimes, describes this important initiative.

• 9 May

The Primary Power Of Poetry

• 11 Feb

Are Teacher-Assessed Exam Grades Accurate Enough ?

Howard Sharron looks at the controversy over teacher assessed grades and the likelihood of bias and inconsistencies.

• 1 Mar

A Modest Proposal For Schools After Christmas

Is there a better way to reconcile the dilemma that schools are spreading the virus, and the need to keep them open for the sake of educational equity?

• 23 Dec

Relationships Matter! How One Organisation Is Closing The Achievement Gap

US researchers have confirmed that The BARR Center's model of cultural intervention is having a remarkable impact in closing the achievement gap.

• 20 Oct

The British State Isn’t Working

It is not simply Boris that is the problem. The cause of our malaise as a country goes much deeper and has just been exposed by Covid-19 writes Howard Sharron, editor of School Leadership Today.

• 27 Sep

Changing Plastic Habits in Schools With New Education Programme

Recycling Education Programme, R-Generation, is widening its reach for 2018, and will now be available to every primary and secondary school in the UK. Following its launch in 2016, Nestlé Waters UK is continuing its partnership with recycling charity, RECOUP, and environmental education organisation, Wastebuster, to deliver an updated programme for 2018.

• 15 Jul

Beware of Politicians Bearing Gifts

• 3 Mar

The Lion That Has Failed to Roar

• 21 Mar

Knife Crime: The Levers for Change Don’t Work in England

• 21 Mar