@LeadingLearner
Redesigning Classrooms
Motivation Boosters, Mufflers and Guzzlers
The saying goes, “Where there is a will, there is a way”. I’ve been blessed to work with fantastically committed teachers, support staff, governors, parents and pupils during my career who through sheer will power have made some great things happen. Motivation matters if you want to succeed. Continue reading
Feeding the Data Monster
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
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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