by iabacus | Thursday, October 18, 2018 | Leadership, Staff well-being |
With World Mental Health Day falling in October, we thought it was timely to look at how schools can use iAbacus® to tackle the worrying issue of work-related stress. Below are three ideas. It won’t surprise you to hear that more than 500,000 working days were lost...
by iabacus | Monday, September 17, 2018 | Leadership, School Improvement, Self-evaluation |
Schools in Scotland – are you struggling to tame the HGIOS beast? We have developed a version of iAbacus that uses the themes from How Good is Our School (HGIOS),* making it easier for schools to use HGIOS to self-evaluate their provision and develop action plans. As...
by iabacus | Tuesday, July 31, 2018 | Education and Learning, Leadership, School Improvement, Self-evaluation, Uncategorized |
Most schools are flooded with data. The challenge is to quickly and easily identify which are the nuggets of gold that will help to improve performance. When gold was discovered in California 150 years ago, nearly 300,000 hopeful prospectors rushed to the Pacific...
by iabacus | Monday, April 9, 2018 | Education and Learning, Leadership, Professional Development, School Improvement, Self-evaluation |
This blog is a serious challenge to professionals in and beyond education. How much time do you spend chasing targets set by others, versus time spent on things that you know will really make a difference to your school? What about the rest of the staff in your...
by iabacus | Sunday, February 4, 2018 | Leadership, Self-evaluation |
When it comes to management information systems, more features and options often in reality means more complicated and more time-consuming. We want to show you a solution that is deceptively simple and effective. Leonardo Da Vinci is widely quoted as having said:...
by iabacus | Sunday, November 19, 2017 | Leadership, Professional Development, School Improvement, Self-evaluation |
We recently received a Tweet asking why the iAbacus process asks users to make a judgement before inputting evidence. It is a subject near to the heart of founder John Pearce. Here he explains why. Actually the iAbacus does start with evidence! The individual...
