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Improve What’s Not Working Well This is the fourth in our 4-step procedure for promoting excellence. So how do we go about improving...
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Ellen Mukwewa
- Oct 10
- 1 min
Strengthen What Works
Step 3: Strengthen What Works Last week we started talking about the 4 step procedure that Marell Consulting Limited uses to promote...
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Ellen Mukwewa
- Oct 4
- 3 min
Monitor & Evaluate What You Do
Step 2: Monitor & Evaluate What You Do It's the second of the 4-step procedure we use to promote excellence in schools. Let’s talk about...
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Ellen Mukwewa
- Oct 3
- 4 min
Do Your Best!
Step 1: Do your best. It's the first of the 4-step procedure we use to promote excellence in schools. We work exclusively with...
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Ellen Mukwewa
- Sep 22
- 5 min
No, Ofsted is not talking to you.
To Proprietors, Governors, Trustees, Headteachers and other school leaders at independent schools that are inspected by Ofsted – Ofsted...
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Ellen Mukwewa
- May 16, 2022
- 7 min
Who supports non-association independent schools from the impact of COVID-19?
The COVID-19 pandemic took all of us by surprise. I doubt there was a single business continuity policy that covered the incidence of a...
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Ellen Mukwewa
- May 11, 2022
- 4 min
Ofsted Inspection Statistics Published Yesterday
Ofsted’s “Non-association independent schools inspections and outcomes: management information” was published yesterday. What interests...
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Ellen Mukwewa
- Sep 21, 2021
- 5 min
How to become inspection ready.
Worrying about Ofsted inspections is one of the most popular issues that keeps independent school leaders up at night. Inspection can be...
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Ellen Mukwewa
- Mar 9, 2021
- 6 min
Independent Schools and Ofsted: Essential Reading
If you want to know what to expect during an inspection there’s a lot of information freely available out there. Inspection handbooks,...
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Ellen Mukwewa
- Mar 1, 2021
- 5 min
Demonstrating Progress
When I asked the Headteachers of Independent Schools about issues that keep them up at night, this was one: “Demonstrating progress-...
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Ellen Mukwewa
- Dec 5, 2020
- 4 min
What can cause your Independent School to close and what can you do about it?
Last week, after watching a video by Social Ink suggesting that our content should not just be about what matters to us - that it should...
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Ellen Mukwewa
- Oct 29, 2020
- 4 min
Continuing Professional Development and School Improvement
Although CPD stands for Continuing Professional Development, we also need to look at CPD as Continuing Personal Development.
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Ellen Mukwewa
- Oct 22, 2020
- 4 min
Challenges Faced by Non-Association Independent Schools
Independent schools face challenges? Sure, I hear you say. Like whether to build a second olympic-size swimming pool or to add dressage to t
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Ellen Mukwewa
- Oct 15, 2020
- 3 min
Could You Work in a Non-Association Independent School?
Teaching is a vocation. A calling. No one gets into teaching for the money or the glory. There’s very little of one, and none of the other.
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Ellen Mukwewa
- Oct 8, 2020
- 4 min
How Non-Association Independent Schools Help Students
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
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Ellen Mukwewa
- Oct 2, 2020
- 5 min
Post-Lockdown Teaching and Learning Strategies: Learn the Independent School Way
There’s a lot of anxiety about the post-pandemic return to school. Particularly concerning making up for lost time and addressing gaps in le
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Ellen Mukwewa
- Sep 25, 2020
- 4 min
Independent Schools Inspectorate: The Alternative to Ofsted
It should come as no real surprise, but schools are thinking about leaving Ofsted. Enter the Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI).
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Ellen Mukwewa
- Sep 17, 2020
- 4 min
How to Pull Everything Together After a Failed Ofsted Inspection
So you’ve just failed an Ofsted inspection. These things happen. We all get knocked down in life, now it's time to focus on getting back up.
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Ellen Mukwewa
- Sep 10, 2020
- 5 min
Why I Work Specifically With Independent Schools in the UK
This is why I choose to work specifically with non-association independent schools in the UK. Because their vision and mission align with mi
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Ellen Mukwewa
- Sep 3, 2020
- 12 min
What Mainstream Education Can Learn From Other Providers
What Mainstream Education Can Learn From Other Providers: 6 Strategies to Address Major Gaps in Student Learning
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