School Improvement Research and Collaboration: @Teacher Toolkit podcast

Professor Toby Greany, Chair of Education, joins Teacher Toolkit founder, Ross McGill on the @TeacherToolkit podcast.

Toby's research is focussed on aspects of school leadership and school system governance and reform. This podcast episode includes:

• why and how Toby got into school improvement
• talking about teaching English in Brazil and China for over 4 years
• how Toby ran a large-scale action research program on learning to learn in schools
• the study Toby is most proud of called Hierarchy, Markets and Networks with Rob Higham
• studies that tackle academisation
• successes and pitfalls of academisation
• links between vision, values, and school improvement
• the challenge of school improvements in large Multi-Academy Trusts
• the similarities between corporate mergers and new schools joining a trust
• the costs of the ‘middle tier and MATs providing a support structure doing the lockdown

Listen to the podcast