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Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast So Build Great Teaching Cultures

As weeks go this one has been a pretty damn good one.  Returning after a decent rest from February half term, I’m arriving at work in the light and on some evenings also set off home in the light.  The long winter haul of driving in the dark seems to be over.  Throw in an INSET day with the Family of Blackpool Catholic Schools and the inspirational John Tomsett key noting; spring, if not quite in the air, seems only around the corner. Continue reading

The 100 Minute Lesson 5 Years On

There’s no ideal lesson length.  I’ve taught 35, 50, 60 and 75 minutes and in September 2011 introduced 100 minute lessons at St. Mary’s Catholic College.  Irrespective of the length of the lesson what really matter is the quality of teaching in whatever time period is available. Continue reading

Leading Learning From Afar; the Data Dimension

Being able to influence people is arguably the ultimate leadership behaviour.  You can’t be a leader if you don’t influence others; how long you stay a leader may well depend on the methods you use.  The use of data in schools can be a bludgeoning experience or an enlightening one.  If the purpose of data focuses on accountability it tends to be the former and as it tends towards learning the later.  Continue reading

Leadership: Being, Knowing, Doing (New Book)

Liminal Leadership

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