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#200Posts: A Point to Celebrate Blogging or a Pointless Distraction?

Last weekend I published the 200th post on my blog.  This includes a number from my original blog Head_stmarys, and I wonder what the impact on myself and others has been.   Posts take different amounts of time to write but I estimate that is about 400-500 hours spent blogging plus goodness knows how long on faffing about on twitter since the first post on the 11th March 2013. Continue reading

Observing Lessons, So What’s Changed?

A year on from when we stopped grading individual lessons I’m wondering how much progress we have made.  Just before the summer I reviewed our new process for evaluating the quality of teaching, with middle leaders, and made a number of tweaks to the system though no substantive changes were suggested. Continue reading

Powerful Transitions #SaturdayThunk

The fiddle and faff curriculum that plagues some schools in the early years of Key Stage 2 or Key Stage 3 can start with poor transition processes from the previous key stage or phase.  Over the past few weeks hundreds of thousands of students have moved across a transition point, Ofsted raised concerns about “the wasted years” and St. Mary’s new Year 7s have enjoyed their “Friendship” Dynamic Day. Continue reading

Leadership: Being, Knowing, Doing (New Book)

Liminal Leadership

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