Over the past 10 years, I’ve spent considerably more time with teachers and school leaders, understanding their needs, acknowledging their challenges, than I have with parents. That’s a proportion I want to reverse over the coming 12 months, because of what I’ve learned about parental expectation – and parental engagement – towards the close of this year. When I wrote ‘OPEN’, at least part of the audience I was writing for were parents. The world that our current students will live in, and try to find work in, is unrecognisable from the one we knew. When I left school aged …
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