“My hope and intention, in writing Leadership: Being, Knowing, Doing, was to help leaders. Leadership can be learnt. The three Ways with their constituent Basics are a means of exploring leadership. They represent a window or a mirror to help leaders improve their practice. In turn, as leaders, we must support the leaders who follow, who we have a responsibility to intentionally and collectively form.”
Continue reading“I arrived to headship with a keen eye for a new idea, a fistful of ready-made solutions and the capacity to work long hours. These allied to Ofsted and Diocesan Section 48 inspections, in my first half year, helped create a one hundred and five page development plan. It led to a manic style of leadership. What the school required was a less frenetic leader and a more phronetic one.” Leadership: Being, Knowing, Doing will be my third book. If I am honest I never thought I would publish one never mind three.
Continue readingA simple Freedom of Information request to three local authorities showed community and voluntary controlled schools have paid £9,453,840 in Apprenticeship Levy Funding, over the past four years. Less than 25%, a paltry £2,145,286, had been used to fund training and assessment of staff in these schools, in the same period. It is an absolute waste; funds from schools’ budgets are being sent back to HMRC unused.
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