Leadership

Our New Secretary of State is on a Workload Mission

The new Secretary of State for Education, Damian Hinds, has made addressing workload one of his top three priorities. The public perception of teachers wasting time needlessly filling in form after form grasps the issue but misses the point. It’s not needless forms, though there will be some of those, it is the culture that is driving workload.

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Focus on Getting Better at Getting Better

The standard school improvement process, certainly Blackpool’s default modus operandi; find kitchen sinks, ramdomly throw them with as much energy and passion as you can, have no impact then fall down exhausted.  Repeat ad nauseam. Continue reading →

Positive Lesson Observation Feedback #Posobservation

As ever it was an odd twenty four hours on twitter; from comments about “not even a bus full” which I found infuriating and ill-considered, in equal measure, to the #nobservation hashtag.  The latter amused me.  With a bit more thought and empathy maybe it shouldn’t. Continue reading →