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Outstanding Lessons
Teach Like a Champion Q and A with @Doug_Lemov
I was just about to start our latest CPD session on Teach Like a Champion and with a few minutes to spare I tweeted out a link to a related post. You can imagine my surprise and delight when Doug Lemov tweeted straight back. For the past fifteen years my experience of leading in Blackpool is secondary schools, in particular, had taken a good kicking with very few offers of support. Doug Lemov’s approach and interest in Blackpool was a welcome change. It was the second time in a week that Blackpool had been given positive preferential treatment; the other was from TeachFirst. Continue reading
Time to Simply Focus on Teaching, Assessment and Learning
Followers of the blog may remember last year I asked for a bit of help in forming our new Teaching, Learning and Assessment Policy. I’ve deliberately swapped the place of assessment around in the title to emphasis it’s pivotal point between tweaching and learning. As we all know; just because I’ve taught it doesn’t necessarily mean the pupils have learnt it. Continue reading
The Hi-5 of Principled Marking Design
Marking is simultaneously an occupational necessity and the bane of many teachers’ lives. The current marking frenzy and associated workload in schools is a product of system wide fear, stupidity and ignorance. Fear of Ofsted, stupidity of some leaders (mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa) and the ignorance of too many teachers about the principles that sit behind a pile of books which need marking. Fear, stupidity and ignorance are powerful multipliers of each other. Continue reading
Leadership: Being, Knowing, Doing (New Book)
Liminal Leadership
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