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Distributing Leadership Requires Clarity
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
Becoming a Self Regulating Profession
The issue of lesson grading seems to have been given a good airing this week on a whole series of blogs. The most popular view seems to be that we should stop grading lessons. What I’m less certain of, having read these blogs, is what we are actually going to use as “quality measures” within the Education System. Let’s not be naïve nor lack a strategic dimension to our thinking, with £88 billion pounds of public money used to fund education it is simply unrealistic to expect zero accountability, in fact it is unhelpful. Continue reading
Updated #Progress8 May Just Be A #Gamechanger
It’s not often that I get excited by another release from the Department for Education. Thinking about it I’m not sure that I have ever previously got excited about a Department for Education release but the recent changes to the Progress 8 measure at GCSE has the potential to set in chain a set of thinking that could be a real game changer for education in England. Continue reading
Leadership: Being, Knowing, Doing (New Book)
Liminal Leadership
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