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