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Today, my speech was about the new agency that's been formed
as a result of the merger between the Teaching Agency and
National College for School Leadership.
I think it's a fantastic opportunity to put a school led, school improving,
self improving system at the heart here of education.
I think the three main things that I really focused on in my speech
were first of all about teacher training and about School Direct and the
opportunities that School Direct give us, give schools,
to be able to train, recruit and to decide on the nature of the training for people
who are coming their way. I think that’s incredibly exciting.
I talked about CPD (Continuous Professional Development)
and how we need to make sure that’s as good as it possible can be and
how the best schools are doing an amazing job with that.
But generally within the school system we can do CPD better.
The final thing I talked about was leadership and school to school support.
That a genuine school led system is where Headteachers are supporting each other but
also their able to ask each other hard and difficult questions about their
practice in order that together, collectively within schools
we raise standards.