Progress 8 has been designed as a way of holding schools accountable for the quality of education they offer; it’s about school effectiveness and shouldn’t be viewed at an individual pupil level outside of this context. Continue reading
When speaking at the Headteachers’ Roundtable Summit last week, I twice made the statement that, “Opting to lead a challenging school is like playing Russian roulette with your career”. It was tweeted, retweeted and liked. Continue reading
Is it possible to have a work life balance when leading a school or for that matter when teaching in one? #SLTchat produces a frenetic thirty minutes of tweets, re-tweets, likes and comments. Maybe the people who give up a Sunday evening to be part of it are not best placed to comment; it’s a lovely irony. Continue reading