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Diary of a headteacher: Practising what we preach

School leaders are quick to criticise inspectors who do not listen and stick to preconceived opinions no matter what, but do our own leadership practices reflect this ethos?

For as long as I can remember in education, school leaders and teachers have been critical of the systems by which schools are judged. Specifically, we have been particularly disparaging towards Ofsted and the way in which they impart their judgements on our schools.

Headteachers up and down the country bear the battle scars from locking horns with Ofsted inspectors and many will have found the inspection experience incredibly frustrating. A common complaint is that they have a fixed idea about a school when they arrive, based on the data available to them, and this is immovable throughout the course of the one or two-day inspection.

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