Balancing consistency and diversity for high quality RE

Consistently high quality RE is a dream for many of us in the RE community. Consistency often seems to need a significant degree of centralised control. And yet don’t we want teachers to be curricular producers in their own right? (Teachers of RE are like Hollywood Producers a bit). The tension between consistency and teacher creativity is at the heart of debates around a national standard for RE content. It is in this context that the RE Council’s National Content Standard for RE has been called a significant landmark in the RE world (The RE Podcast: The One About the National Content Standard).