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Academies: It’s a Fight, It’s a Real Fight
Even before the line was uttered, in Bridget Jones’s Diary, I found myself laughing as we watched the film again last Sunday. The ridiculous, “It’s a fight, it’s a real fight” scene, involving Hugh Grant and Colin Firth fighting in the street and restaurant, is wonderfully choreographed and acted. In the more sinister setting and political intrigue of a Tory leadership battle; no prisoners will be taken and that includes schools. It’s a real post-White Paper fight over academisation which will be part of defining the schooling system for decades to come. Continue reading
Workload and the Blind Man
The Workload Reports published over the Easter weekend was not so much a missed opportunity as one that never existed. There is a certain amount of confirmation bias in making this statement as back in November 2015 I blogged Why Workload Working Groups Won’t Work. The blind man of the title is each one of us; we all have a responsibility to act within our sphere of influence. The workload challenge is likely to be one of the defining issues of the next few years; it is looking like one of many. Continue reading
The Race to Results Day
Depending on your approach, the race to results day is focussed on planning and delivering great lessons in class or making sure you get the right interventions in place for those who need them during and beyond the school day. Both have been well articulated in recent copies of Schools Week; I want to move more towards the former but we still have a lot of the later. Continue reading
Leadership: Being, Knowing, Doing (New Book)
Liminal Leadership
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