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A Teacher’s Top 3 Must Haves
With the pantomime season almost upon us; if you had three wishes to magically acquire “must haves” for a teacher what would you go for? The only certainty about this post is I’m almost certainly wrong but thought I’d offer it to get people to reflect, disagree and debate. Identifying only three is artificial but it does mean you have to develop a sense of priorities. You can’t go on writing an endless list. Here’s mine for what they are worth. Continue reading
Feedback Matters #ThursdayThunk
The road to great feedback is paved with good intentions and broken teachers. The idea of feedback sounds so simple and easy yet it has become a triple coloured workload nightmare in many schools. It’s not often a policy excites me but I thought the two Feedback Policies I received this week, one written for our primary academies and the other for our secondary academy, showed a mountain of common sense. Continue reading
Teaching Touchstones and Mantras. What’s Yours?
Very early on, in headship, I developed a series of three touchstones that proved useful when faced with complex decisions. Was the decision I was taking legal and moral? Would it keep the wolves away from the door (read Ofsted)? And would it, when implemented, be good enough for my children? Continue reading
Leadership: Being, Knowing, Doing (New Book)
Liminal Leadership
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