US-UK – still a ‘special relationship’
This is the second in a series of posts co-written by myself and Amy Illingsworth, an educator from the US with whom I connected on Twitter. You will learn more about each of us and why we connected as you …
Making a Global Connection
This is the first in a series of posts co-written by myself and Amy Illingworth, EdD (@AmyLIllingworth), Director of Professional Growth in a southern Californian school district in San Diego, USA, with whom I connected on Twitter. You will learn …
From Cultural Capital, to Trust to focusing on Coaching and Mentoring
Initially, my professional line of leadership enquiry was how school leaders develop cultural capital, through promoting Character Education*, our Values and virtues within a school to staff, students and parents and our stakeholder community. At the same time, I had …
#EduCoach
This morning I stumbled upon the #Educoach hashtag and I am sharing to support and connect educators with an interest in coaching. The questions and answers are, for the most part, tagged, however not ordered. So I have browsed and …
10 things that require zero talent
It is highly likely you will have seen this list doing the rounds on social media or walls of classrooms. I can see why educators (and more) are attracted to it. A quick google search returns quite literally hundreds of …
Double dip dose of failure
Somewhere in the middle of March I snipped this comment. ASCL said that over a third of pupils failing to hit this standard means society must “surely question a system which sends out such a negative message to so many …
CLEAR Coaching
Transformational models such as CLEAR, offer an alternative to the performance, solution focused process models, of GROW. With the distinctive feature of CLEAR being that you are “working with” clients, with coaching being “in service” of transforming our fundamental assumptions, …
A pound of performance – entrepreneurialism
In for a penny, in for a pound, here is an opportunity for learners to think, innovative, be creative, collaborate, or not, present and exhibit, and tell a story. Let me present the concept and let’s see where we can …