Thank you to everyone who completed the MTQ48 measurer. There were 150 returns to be analysed. I hope people found their individual reports useful, interesting and thought provoking. Many people fed back that it was a good way of understanding the 4 Cs framework of Mental Toughness – Control, Commitment, Challenge and Confidence – and what it means for staff leader and student development. Continue reading
Prior to the 1980s, education was very much a local issue set within the context of the 1944 Education Act. A move to comprehensive schools in the 1960s was arguably the major event. How times have changed. Like many people of my age, I have been honed, damaged and shaped by an era of increasingly pernicious accountability and the confused autonomy granted to us by successive governments. Continue reading
The road to great feedback is paved with good intentions and broken teachers. The idea of feedback sounds so simple and easy yet it has become a triple coloured workload nightmare in many schools. It’s not often a policy excites me but I thought the two Feedback Policies I received this week, one written for our primary academies and the other for our secondary academy, showed a mountain of common sense. Continue reading