Last weekend I published the 200th post on my blog. This includes a number from my original blog Head_stmarys, and I wonder what the impact on myself and others has been. Posts take different amounts of time to write but I estimate that is about 400-500 hours spent blogging plus goodness knows how long on faffing about on twitter since the first post on the 11th March 2013. Continue reading
Whilst leaders don’t create a school’s culture all on their own they must play the major role in determining the destination, the type of school culture they believe is right, and keep moving colleagues in that direction. ResearchEd Scotland was a great opportunity to reflect on the schools’ journeys so far, on how much further we still needed to go and how best to travel forward together. Continue reading
Having been kindly invited to speak at ResearchEd in Glasgow I’m possibly in danger of being drummed out of the conference by suggesting being research informed is simply not enough. The post is a summary of the main points from the middle section of my presentation in which I stressed the need of going beyond being informed to a deeper wisdom. Continue reading