This is the first anniversary of my application to join the SSAT’s Vision 2040 Group. The first year has been an interesting and challenging one. All credit to Tom Sherrington (@headguruteacher), who leads the group, for keeping the wheels on the project along with the core team at the SSAT. The problem we’ve had with Vision 2040, from the beginning, is that it hasn’t really managed to differentiate it from what would effectively be Vision 2020 in terms of its thinking and proposals. Continue reading
I was really pleased when Ros McMullen asked whether I could attend a @HeadsRoundtable Meeting following a New Year blog post “Ofsted Get it Right for Once … Oh No They Didn’t”. This is a summary of a short presentation prepared for the meeting at Huntington School in York, hosted by John Tomsett. Continue reading
The term distributed leadership has now become a bit of a mantra in education. According to many of us, in leadership positions, we are distributing leadership all the time. I sometimes wonder how many people in our schools or organisations would agree. Benevolent dictatorship was a style I felt I mastered pretty easily and employed very well but distributing leadership has been quite a challenge. Continue reading