It’s been an odd twelve months with respect to data. I’ve spent the last two decades as a deputy and head teacher chucking as much aggregated data into the Data Monster, similar beasts exist in schools up and down the country, only to have now become an aggregated data minimalist. Continue reading
As part of our Trust’s new Business Plan we developed a set of ten objectives to focus our work over the next three years. One was about “Developing Healthy Minds & Healthy Mindsets” based on our desire to be involved in Blackpool’s HeadStart programme and some preliminary work on Growth Mindsets. Continue reading
Courses or parts of courses for leaders abound with sessions about having the difficult conversation. It’s part of a look tough, act tough mentality that is rooted in a view of teachers or leaders as lazy idle wasters who need a kick up the proverbial if they are ever to get their act together. Continue reading