Building a feedback culture: school improvement projects
Building a feedback culture: school improvement projects
School 360, the school I founded, is a school deliberately set up to exemplify a feedback culture, for both pupils and staff. This was achieved through designing pedagogies and a curriculum that deliberately build in opportunities for pupils to seek, give, receive and use feedback and that values process over outcome.
This feedback culture is also deliberately designed and continually developed for staff, through the design of professional development and appraisal systems which are focused on giving teachers agency over their own development and the continual seeking, giving, receiving and using of feedback to improve practice.
I have recently worked in a school improvement capacity with Atelier 21 Future School, the UK’s first Reggio Emilia inspired, inquiry-based, Future School for 4-16 years, which offers a truly pioneering approach to education for its pupils, and wants to replicate that offer for staff.
I worked with school leaders to design:
professional development sessions that support building a feedback culture amongst staff;
an appraisal system for leaders and staff that builds in opportunities for teacher agency and regular constructive feedback, and is built around the school's values;
a new approach to headteacher performance management that is predicated on a Head, Heart, Hand model of leadership.