#WTD17
I hope our staff knew just how much they are appreciated, if not, I hope they do now. Today (Thursday) we passed on all the messages of thanks and appreciation that we had collected from parents and students to our …
Chris Moyse opens #TLT17
Chris Moyse opening to this years 5th birthday #TLT17 was a wonderful mixture of sense, encouragement and personal sharing. Quite unreflective of a student characterised as having His talk was backed by a wonderful and diverse reading list, …
Complexity, Trust and Mistrust
What is trust? I know. Tell me. I knew… (overheard) I am not a Complexity Theory expert, however, modelling complex personal and social interactions seem to be the business worlds yearning. In reflection, I felt I got a lot from …
Leading at the Speed of Trust
One of the most advantageous aspects of my current role, is the ability to engage with a group of headteachers. I changed ‘team’ to ‘group’ as we do not have collective accountability, our successes are to a large extent mutually …
Week 3 with Canvas
It has been a busy week here at school and we still managed to find time for Canvas. More thinking time than action, equally important. Our Teaching and Learning lead has eployed Canvas as a platform for… learning about our …
Grey clouds and silver linings #wtd17
The National Audit Office finds vast majority of secondary school headteachers feel the government is failing to help them with high-quality teacher recruitment. Before the ink was barely dry on that headline, a survey of 1,023 ex-teachers commissioned by the DfE …
The single most important thing for teachers to know
Cognitive load theory was recently described by British educationalist Dylan Wiliam as ‘the single most important thing for teachers to know’ (Wiliam 2017). My longest ever blog post title is not a professed assertion, rather a quote from Dylan Wiliam. …
Filling in the gaps – learning from the greats
This week my commute was been filled with two leadership podcasts (and the Tes Podagogy podcast with Dylan Wiliams). Two podcasts from two nonagenarian leaders with a combined 183 years life experience, over at Finding Mastery. Both John Nordstrom and …