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Leadership Issues
Here’s your school development plan – no, really, don’t thank me. #SLTchat
There are so many things you might need to do to take a school forward. Based on my reading and engagement with schools around the country this year, here are some areas I’d recommend for consideration. Before outlining the details, here are two preliminary considerations: A: Sort behaviour. Don’t do anything else until this feels … Continue reading
Schools that work for everyone? The challenges for comprehensive education. #educationfest
My talk at the Wellington Festival this year was originally intended to contribute to the discussion about new grammar schools. However, given that this idea seems to have been put aside – at least at any significant scale – I swerved it around to focus more on comprehensive schools. Years ago, when I worked at KEGS, … Continue reading
EVENT: Powerful Curriculum Design
If you are interested in curriculum design, this one-day course could be the perfect opportunity to explore a range of powerful ideas to take your school forward. Martin Robinson and I will be delivering the programme based on our experience working with schools around the country. Please come and join us for what promises to … Continue reading
School Leadership in 12 slides.
Last week I was asked to lead a workshop on leadership for some middle and senior leaders. Here are some of the ideas I shared. Believe me, I’m not preaching from on high. I’ve had some successes but there isn’t a day that goes by when I don’t run through some kind of imagined … Continue reading
Headship Headaches: A brief index of leadership metaphors.
Hamster Wheel: Everyone is running round and round and round, getting nowhere fast but working really hard. There’s only one solution. Step off the wheel… STOP. Take a look around and think. What the hell are we doing? Let’s try something different…. Permanent White Water: There is no point telling people that it will pass; … Continue reading
6 things to get right in every school.
Over the years and in recent months I’ve seen lots of different, fascinating schools with great Headteachers; it’s so interesting to see how things are done in different places and the relative importance certain issues are given. Currently nearly everyone is talking about budget constraints, the challenge of implementing curriculum changes at every Key Stage … Continue reading
Teacherhead-consulting in action
I’m pleased to say that teacherhead-consulting is now up and running. If you are interested in the kind of support I can provide, here is a run down of some of the work I’ve done in the last two months. If you would like to contact me to discuss possible work, please use the contact … Continue reading
The cause-effect illusion-confusion
If we knew the precise things that make the most difference in terms of school improvement in order to secure the specific outputs we want, then everyone would be laughing. We would simply do more of those things and the outputs would improve. Voila! Bob’s your uncle! However, of course we don’t actually have a precise … Continue reading
40 Curriculum Models 2017:
With enormous thanks to everyone who has contributed, the spreadsheet below now shows the curriculum models for 40 different schools. I’m going to stop there. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fuZV6mg5BQLDnQ3xACDMqTuKbUKZGr5k9iYz56RpDvM/edit?usp=sharing The collection includes the models for grammar schools, comprehensives, middle schools and international schools. No two are the same. There’s a mixture of 25, 30, 50 and … Continue reading
The Michaela Way
Last week, I joined the growing number of people who have visited Michaela Community School to see it action. I’ve read Battle Hymn of the Tiger Teachers and numerous blogs and articles about the school from its teachers and visitors – so it was great to see what it is really like to put … Continue reading
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