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10 points for @andyburnham if he becomes PM on what might be done to improve schools? Here are some suggestions that would cost little & achieve much. 1. Incentivize schools' commitment to common place & community among schools serving the same locality - within & across local authorities, across academies & between local authorities & academies. Differentiate budgets according to genuine commitment to the policy. 2. Ensure all schools take and keep their fair share of SEND students & don't manipulate their intake through selective recruitment & exclusions. 3. Commission & report publicly on an independent @OECD review of OFsted that includes Chief Inspectors from higher performing & less punitive systems such as Ireland, Estonia, Nordic countries & the Netherlands. 4. Promote the value of learning in real life for all young people, not just those who can't manage or don't want the traditional academic route. 5. Make the first priority of a rethought SEND policy a whole school focus on whole child development with discretionary time for teacher collaboration around shared children and an engaging curriculum - then follow this up with specific support where there are additional needs. 6. Allocate 30% of curriculum time to be school-based, inspiring & engaging, like the higher performing Netherlands. 7. Increase attention to learning outdoors which benefits children cognitively, emotionally and behaviourally. Remove bureaucratic roadblocks of endless form-filling to make this happen. 8. Develop a national strategy of parent responsibility that is considerate of different life circumstances yet clear about how parents should, for example, monitor their own as well as their kids' screen-time, take more responsibility for their children's misbehaviour, & commit to civil & fair processes for airing grievances & complaints. 9. Have a judicious approach to device regulation in schools that avoids AI euphoria on the one hand or a return to textbook fundamentalism on the other. 10. Abolish all high stakes tests before Year 6. Keep and indeed increase diagnostic tests as early as possible, but for accountability & monitoring purposes, test samples rather than a census of everyone. Don't let high stakes, high stress tests distort the curriculum & undermine wellbeing. Ireland, much of Canada & much of the Nordic world manages perfectly well without them - so can England. The best way to improve wellbeing is immediately act on school practices that are creating ill-being. @LesWalton500 @steve_munby @MelAinscow @NAHTnews @jon_severs @NASUWT @ViviennePorritt @Headteacherchat @TeacherToolkit