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Admissions and Refusals

The letters have gone out for another year.  Joy, relief, worry and fear will have been the mixture of emotions felt by parents and children depending on whether they secured their school of choice.  For school leaders and teachers similar emotions can be felt when you begin to contemplate the impact of Year 7 numbers on your budget at a time it is already falling. Continue reading

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

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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