Matt Bromley

1 month ago | sec-ed.co.uk | Matt Bromley

In this five-part SecEd series, I am exploring inclusion and belonging in the classroom and adaptive teaching practice. I will focus on three areas of professional practice to help us achieve this in our classrooms – an inclusive curriculum and adaptive lesson-planning (part 3), adaptive teaching (part 4), and flexible assessment approaches (part 5). I will also consider the different barriers some students face to learning that require us to embrace these adaptive approaches (part 2).

1 month ago | sec-ed.co.uk | Pete Henshaw |Matt Bromley

Launched in early 2020, the SecEd Podcast has been on air for five years and to mark episode 100 podcast co-hosts Pete Henshaw and Matt Bromley reveal our top 10 most listened to episodes – interspersed with clips and highlights from each one. Without giving the game away, themes include oracy education, excellence in senior and middle leadership, tips for quality first teaching and classroom management, Pupil Premium insights, inclusion and SEN best practice, and much, much more.

2 months ago | headteacher-update.com | Matt Bromley

In Essential Pieces: Jigsaw of a successful school (2006), the late Sir Tim Brighouse argued that the most successful school leaders had three qualities in common: energy, enthusiasm, and hope. To this excellent list I always add “kindness”, because in my estimation the best school leaders care about their colleagues’ health and – dare I say it – happiness as much as they care about vision and strategy.

Dec 1, 2024 | sec-ed.co.uk | Matt Bromley

So far in this series, we’ve explored the features of effective governance and governing body structures. In the final part, we will explore two aspects to governors’ evaluative role:Evaluating governance: Self-reviewThe new governance guide (DfE, 2024) says that an effective governing body should review its own performance regularly. The governing body can evaluate the effectiveness of their governance through a combination of self-assessment tools, independent perspectives, and skills audits.

Nov 18, 2024 | sec-ed.co.uk | Matt Bromley

The new Department for Education governance guides, which recently replaced the governance handbook, serve as the primary source of governance information. There are two versions, one for maintained schools and one for academies (DfE, 2024). In this series, for ease and concision, I am going to focus on the governance guidance for maintained schools, but my advice applies to all settings.