The first week of the new term is over; far too many New Year resolutions have already bitten the dust and the end of your career in teaching is one week closer. There’s no time to waste; this is urgent. If you only focussed on improving one thing professionally this year and abandoning or reducing one thing, to create time, what would they be? Continue reading
Given the opportunity at the SSAT(UK) National Conference to introduce the Leading Learning strand here are the notes of what I intended to say. Hopefully I remembered most of it. Continue reading
The well-being of staff must be an area of concern for school leaders; however, there will inevitably be some aspects of well-being that are outside of your control. It often felt that most of the private confidential work I did as a head teacher was dealing with personal rather than personnel issues. Continue reading