If anyone has any thoughts on this, please do let me know.  I am trying to develop a School of Ed Admin answer - in case that helps!

Our school is improving and our Head Teacher is “challenging” his leadership team to look at each of our areas of responsibility to research what outstanding ‘looks like’. For those on the teaching side, this would appear to be a relatively straight forward. As for the areas falling under the remit of an SBM, it’s potentially not so easy (with a wide variety of completely different disciplines involved).

I like the challenge, although I am not sure that finding a school which is “outstanding in all areas of Administration” is a simple task. It would be good to visit any such organisation, to see if I can crystallise exactly how an outstandingly well run school looks/works and particularly, how the management of that operation constantly manages to strive for improvement in all areas.

It would appear to me that if we are committed professionals, this ‘should’ be what we all aspire to ultimately.

Please email any thoughts to Tony@schools.co.uk 

Tony Attwood
School of Educational Administration