Practice
How colleagues plan, mark, assess and develop their teaching.
The evidence
A sharper picture of what happens day to day.
Response
How people use data as it emerges and respond when something changes.
Leadership
How quickly issues are noticed, understood and acted upon.
Development
Whether the right training and support reach the right people at the right time.
The conversation · From activity to understanding
Evidence that changes the conversation.
01
The actual investment
See the time and staffing cost invested in a class, subject or initiative—including internal meetings and training.
02
The effect of disruption
Follow the consequences of absence, changing priorities and unexpected events across the working week.
03
The impact of a decision
Explore who would carry new work, where time might be gained or lost, and what may need to change elsewhere.
The example · Planning change
School life changes the plan.
Before making a change, understand its chance of success. Ptolemy helps you stress-test an initiative against your school’s capacity to deliver successful change.
- Can we introduce the initiative without removing other tasks?
- What existing tasks could be reduced or removed to make it feasible?
- Who has the capacity to lead or trial the new approach?
- Where will the impact fall across different roles?
This is a small example of some of the ways Ptolemy can help your work—only a snapshot of its wider functionality.
Download Fact Sheet 1 PDFCurrent working week
Illustrative example
44.5hours / week
- Teaching
- 20.5h
- Planning & marking
- 11.0h
- Leadership & training
- 7.5h
- Other activity
- 5.5h
Scenario: add, remove, recalculate
44.5hcurrent week
+
3.5hnew initiative
−
2.0hactivity removed
=
46.0hpredicted week
Calculated at whole-school, team or individual level.
Weekly impact by role
Class teacher+1.5h
Subject leader+2.0h
Support staff+0.5h
Senior leader+0.8h
Illustrative values from Fact Sheet 1. Actual reports are more detailed.
The ambition
For every colleague.
For every week.
“What can I do in the coming week to move our shared goals and ambitions forward?”
Ptolemy brings evidence of the work itself to that question—not assumptions drawn from outcomes, recollections of what may have happened or plans describing what should have happened.