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Message: Hello! I saw this Tried & Tested Review on Teach Primary Magazine's website and thought you might like it - please find an excerpt below: Oxford Owl A colleague of mine suffers from FoMo, or ‘Fear of Missing out’. His anxiety extends to all parts of his life and he is especially twitchy if he doesn’t have the latest gadget or teaching resource. It’s like an extreme version of keeping up with the Joneses, which is ironic because he’s called Mr Jones. We like him though, because he’s devoted to school improvement. Knowing how uppity he gets, I thought I’d better tell him about Oxford Owl, because this is something no one should miss out on, let alone those afflicted with FoMo. Oxford Owl is an award-winning website to help support children’s learning, at home and at school. The website is bigger than an aircraft hangar and contains an enormous amount of tools and resources, and if you subscribe for membership you will get access to an authoritative range of school improvement support in one very manageable location. If you want to up-skill your staff then this is the place to go. It’s lateral accountability at its best. Respected commentators argue we are now in a ‘third age’ of school improvement in which the quality of teaching needs to be the central theme of any improvement strategy. This is where Oxford Owl comes in. It has developed something called Pathways, a unique online school improvement system that contains interlinked tools to support key issues and embed sustainable good practice across the school. Pathways follows a systematic route through four clearly-defined stages whereby you audit, strategically plan, take action and evaluate, with support every step of the way. You begin by diagnosing the improvements needed in your school, and Pathways provides you with the resources to analyse the data, identify goals and objectives, and create school improvement action plans. It can then help turn these into reality. The exciting evidence-based support resources on offer include videos, presentations, case studies and links to CPD and third-party organisations. Can there be a better system for ensuring a structured and rigorous approach to school improvement? I don’t think so. Is it easy to activate? Yes, very. Once you’ve identified the pathways you wish to follow (each school can choose which are most relevant), one member of staff gets the ball rolling by becoming the ‘owner’ and selecting tasks on which she wants to embark. While this might seem like one person is doing the work, Pathways is very much focused on teamwork and has been designed to help… If you want to read the full article, please visit: https://www.teachprimary.com/tried_and_tested/view/oxford-owl Thanks!