Are your school’s quality assurance conversations having a real impact?
One of the biggest challenges in any school is having effective processes in place to ensure supportive and challenging line management to develop school staff and hold them accountable…
Quality assurance works both ways, particularly for school and college leaders who need a quick and effective methodology to avoid being blindsided.
“Are you better off” with your new email policy?
“Are you better off” from the changes to your teaching and learning policy? and,
“Are you better off” from the launch of your new behaviour for learning policy?
“Are you better off?” is a great question to ask as a group of teachers and leaders to help us evaluate how much progress we have made.
Especially when evaluating small changes to big ideas.
For example, when you revise your behaviour for learning policy to improve coherence and consistency across the school (whilst also seeking ways to improve staff wellbeing and student outcomes), the question “Are we better off?” proves to be a straightforward and highly effective inquiry, cutting to the core of the matter.
This reminds me of my doctoral supervision. I can generate all sorts of theories, but I’m soon challenged with these two simple questions: 1) So what? 2) Now what? (are you going to do).
Reflection questions for teachers:
- How can you implement the “Are you better off?” question into your conversations?
- What strategies can you use for line management conversations to enable you to ask this critical question?
- How do you measure the impact of line management conversations? Are they value for money?
In essence, are your staff trained to deliver motivational and challenging conversations to drive up standards?
Consider this: the next time you review any of your school policies, procedures or quality assurance processes, framing your evaluation using this simple question helps us to improve our thinking.
This question’s potency lies in its ability to cut through complexities and bring to focus the core issues.
Take a look at this resource.
