LeadingLearner

What Cognitive Science Can Teaching Us About the Reading Mind

Every now and again you come across a book that is an absolute gem; The Reading Mind by Daniel T. Willingham has captured my attention over the last few weeks.  In attempting to provide some leadership to develop literacy across the school I’ve realised the limits of my knowledge.  Reading has helped; in fact reading helps us all develop our knowledge. Continue reading →

Hopes for 2018: When the Leaders Change Everything Changes

When the leaders change everything changes; whilst this might not be totally true, leaders shouldn’t underestimate their impact.  Impacting on everything is a tall order but we can impact on some things and as such are not helpless.  Continue reading →

5 Ways to Improve Teachers’ Lives

The cumulative effect of annually missing recruitment targets to Initial Teacher Training and chronically poor retention means if you don’t love the teachers you’ve got another school will be more than happy to welcome them.  I’ve always maintained that we can’t recruit our way out of the pending crisis; retention will be the key to having a full staffing establishment in the years ahead.

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