Glossary
On the Outstanding-schools.com website the listed words and phrases have the given meanings:
| Achievement analyser | The person in school who makes sure that all individual pupils and groups of pupils are making real and meaningful progress in learning at the leading edge. |
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| Continuous Teaching | The way in which a teacher/teaching assistant talks with a pupil after observing learning, to support their continued progress in learning at the best pace possible. |
| Learning at the Leading Edge | Pupils and staff feel they are learning at the leading edge when their minds are struggling to understand a concept and then they feel themselves coming to that understanding in a profound way. It is the moment when they are pushing through a hedge and then they arrive on the other side with a clear view ahead. Pupils may describe their own learning at the leading edge in different ways. |
| School Pattern | "Patterns" are answers to design problems. A school pattern will enable anyone to design, run, maintain and improve a school. Patterns will outline the problem which needs to be overcome and an illustration of a possible solution. |