My friend Margaret Alcorn, who has died aged 78, was a “well-kent” figure in Scottish education. Starting as a teacher, she eventually became the City of Edinburgh council’s quality development manager and then Scotland’s first national continuing professional development co-ordinator.
In that role she created a team and connected with people working on the subject in every local authority. She also led an international programme that resulted in the development of “learning rounds”, based on the medical rounds used by doctors and involving groups of teachers observing classroom practice across the country.
