The self‐evaluating school — a case study of a special school

School self‐evaluation allows staff to review the quality of their work in relation to local contexts. In this article, Peter Neil, senior lecturer in education, Alex McEwen, professor of education, and Karen Carlisle and Damian Knipe, both research assistants in the Graduate School of Education at Queen’s University, Belfast, discuss a research project focusing on the process of self‐evaluation carried out by staff at a special school in Northern Ireland. The project involved the participants in the completion of a research journal over a four‐week period. The authors describe the ways in which the outcomes of the project were fed back to staff and the impact the project had on a range of issues, including teaching and learning and the school’s professional development agenda.