@LeadingLearner
Leadership
Texting Your Way to Improved Attendance
The link between good attendance and higher levels of attainment are pretty well established. Many school leaders talk about “quality teaching first”; I understand and accept the basis of their logic but if a pupil isn’t in the classroom s/he won’t benefit. You’ve got to get them in first. Continue reading
Are Assessment, Data and Tracking Systems Worth the Effort?
Back in September 2014, when the Trust formed, we started a big conversation about what assessment would look like in our post-levels world. The conversation just kept getting bigger as inter-related elements – teaching, learning, data collection, tracking, monitoring, accountability, reporting to parents and school improvement – were all brought to bear on our discussion and decisions. Continue reading
The Real Substance of Education
The debate over the “real substance of education” is inexorable. Some may view it as a broad and balanced curriculum; the most reliable metric is arguably a well-conceived set of standardised and externally assessed examinations. I differ, “the real substance of education” is the person and the people with the most reliable metric being a life well lived. Continue reading
Leadership: Being, Knowing, Doing (New Book)
Liminal Leadership
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