Tom Shaw

We’re excited to release our 2023/24 Annual Report! We now represent 135,000 learners and 83 partners, working to reduce exclusions, improve outcomes & create opportunities for young people - all while keeping peace, inclusion, & collaboration at the centre of our work.

Read more: bit.ly/4ioSMBN

21.03.2025 12:05 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Pirates & emperors, terrorists & presidents Reading Augustine alongside Mohammed El-Kurd's "Perfect Victims"

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17.03.2025 21:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Leaders' Breakfast Meeting - March 2025 - Leeds Learning Alliance This was our tenth breakfast meeting, and another at maximum capacity, with over 100 people in attendance. Thank you to our sponsors Mod-Con Designs and LM Construction who made the event possible. Ca...

We held another successful Leaders' Breakfast meeting at the newly opened Carr Manor Community Hub this morning. Thank you to our sponsors Mod-Con Designs and LM Construction who made the event possible.
We are already looking forward to our next Leaders’ Breakfast in June. bit.ly/3DEKwyq

14.03.2025 11:39 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

How new Ofsted report cards could be improved – by giving parents what they want to know Parents want external measures of a school – but also to get to know what it is like.

How the new Ofsted report cards could be improved- by giving parents what they want to know (& strengthening local professional accountability in the process) theconversation.com/how-new-ofst...

18.02.2025 18:05 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

This from Gert Biesta's excellent keynote @ #icsei2025 - 3 domains of purpose for edn (qualification, socialisation & subjectification) must be held in creative balance. The point of ed is only what cannot be done without edn. Teachers can redirect students to pay attention - developing discernment

11.02.2025 07:08 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I really enjoyed this panel session on #BelongingSchools on Monday - thanks to Jamie's Farm for organising (& for your work). Riley is fab - as are Tish Fielden (from JF) & Tom Shaw from the amazing Carr Manor school in Leeds (read their Ofsted!) @jonnyuttley.bsky.social youtu.be/EfiPjv2Per8?...

27.11.2024 07:36 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1

Progress 8 is a deeply flawed way to hold schools to account Any reform of school accountability must include changing a headline measure that acts as a perverse incentive

🎱 'P8 is unfair to many hard-working schools, lets questionable performance go unchallenged, and hampers efforts to get under the bonnet of school improvement'

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11.12.2024 18:01 — 👍 16    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 3

This is a great share, thanks Jonathan!

06.12.2024 09:47 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Enjoyed this Tom. Thank you. Useful to see the themes as enabling conditions for developing embodied value-aligned practice for school communities.

30.11.2024 06:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0