ABSTRACT
When it comes to school improvement, it’s not how you get things off the ground, but how you keep everything moving upwards in the long term. Everybody can have good ideas. I, though, keep thinking of the many relics of past enthusiasms that you see around in schools – rotting canoes round the back of the sports hall, a long-dead go-kart among the weeds near the technology block, the faded lines of a baseball pitch on the school field. They all seemed like good ideas at the time, and some of them consumed quite a lot of money and teacher time. All down to experience, is the best interpretation.
