Resources
Partnership Module Brochure for Trusts and Groups
BlueSky’s Trust management information module allows CEOs, executive headteachers and their operations staff in all kinds of associations - from multi-academy trusts through to federations and groups of schools - to organise, manage and evaluate staff performance and quality assurance across a network of [...]
How BlueSky Supports Recruitment
In this guide, we explore how BlueSky can support all stages of the teacher recruitment process, from application to induction. Our accompanying checklist helps to evaluate your current approach to recruiting the best staff. It's no secret that there is currently a recruitment crisis in [...]
How BlueSky supports staff retention and succession planning
This guide invites leaders to reflect upon current practice in their school, and consider how BlueSky can support retention and succession strategies. Schools have been facing huge challenges with recruitment and staff retention for some years now, but the past two years have had a significant [...]
Ensuring Excellence in Staff Induction
In this guide, we will outline the key features of an effective induction programme and how BlueSky supports this. The most valuable asset in any school is its staff and ensuring that you successfully introduce new colleagues into the organisation and their new role [...]
Develop a coaching culture with impact
This eBook guide considers why coaching is important, how schools can develop a coaching culture, and the different ways coaching can be used to impact on the school workforce and improvement. Effective strategies for improving teaching need to be based on evidence-informed research. They [...]
Download the BlueSky brochure
BlueSky is the multi award-winning comprehensive solution that supports school leaders and staff with appraisal, professional development, quality assurance, school evaluation and improvement. BlueSky helps schools and Trusts to elevate outcomes by putting people at the centre of a professional dialogue. Download our brochure [...]
The Emerging Revolution Research Report
In this report, we examine how changing processes in performance management and appraisal, alongside a greater focus on professional learning, might evolve such that professional learning becomes the top priority in conversations about performance and, therefore, one of the most important drivers for school [...]
Performance Management – a phoenix from the ashes
In this report we discuss the changing shape of performance management and appraisal and consider the role of professional development as the driver of change. There is a shift underway in performance management. The anxiety generated by performance management in many schools is just one [...]
The Quiet Uprising: Challenging perceptions of lesson observation
Following the release of our previous, highly popular observation report, we have conducted an online survey asking Senior Leaders to provide feedback on the practice of the observation process in schools. In this report you'll learn: about the latest research on lesson observation show [...]
