This year, I was accountable for our results. It does change things. It was, as I am sure, many experienced Head teachers will attest, an anxious and exciting time. It was also necessary to find a balance. Balance between my …
Look, there are numerous reflective educators out there with an opinion on the importance of, and use of learning outcomes/aims/objectives. These range from dismissive to advocacy. For the record, I do think that clearly defined destinations promote students engagement, as …
I’ve said it more than once, RSS (and here) is a fantastic and much under-utilised recourse. Feedly, my agregator of choice. This week, on the back of the InstructureCon (Canvas conference), the Canvas blog signposted three Canvas Network’s Educator courses. …
Winston Churchill once said ‘success is stumbling from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.’
If you are not prepared to risk failure, and not resilient enough to cope with it, you will not achieve success
Dr Jill Berry
Leadership literature is littered with models, lists and quick fixes. I understand that we, the consumers/leaders, seek assurances to guide our own practice however distilling leadership in this manner seem wholly inadequate to me. That said, this morning, I followed …
This is not a post about the systems of school improvement, the Science of school improvement if you will. This is more about the culture of school improvement. The art, if you will. It reminds me of the lessons presented …
Our school organisation is leading a shift in our pedagogy. A three part model that includes an assignment frame, a taught or direct instruction frame and resource immersion. Given that a lot of information is shared via a learning platform …
This time last summer, one of the final jobs I completed was to share a student summer challenge. It was my version of the TES post, that borrowed from an American teacher’s impassioned post. A collection of optional tasks. The …
