When speaking at the Headteachers’ Roundtable Summit last week, I twice made the statement that, “Opting to lead a challenging school is like playing Russian roulette with your career”. It was tweeted, retweeted and liked. Continue reading
Is it possible to have a work life balance when leading a school or for that matter when teaching in one? #SLTchat produces a frenetic thirty minutes of tweets, re-tweets, likes and comments. Maybe the people who give up a Sunday evening to be part of it are not best placed to comment; it’s a lovely irony. Continue reading
In planning for this week’s Headteachers’ Roundtable Summit I’m aware that funding is going to be a red hot topic. A combination of anger and despair might well sum up many school leaders, governors and teachers’ feelings at the moment. Continue reading