Outlining vision and leading strategy
To give the book its full title ‘The New Leaders – Transforming the art of leadership into the science of results’ is rather grand and contribute little. I ordered the book after stumbling upon Daniel Goleman’s research here and there and I …
In my opinion, ‘Fierce Leadership’ was less applicable to an educational setting than ‘Fierce Conversations’ and towards the end of the book I found myself scanning pages rather than reading them. Where I did find valuable content, I would hone …
What do you get, when you don’t get what you want. Experience. This week I witnessed how unforgiving leadership can be. A colleague sharing a wholeschool agenda, with positive staff ‘buy-in,’ working to the benefit of almost all teaching staff …
Ten years later… after a conversation with a colleague last night, I find myself sharing this post again. It is possibly the most shared post with teachers and particularly teachers and middle leaders working with new line managers. With a …
Adverts, online articles and now short iPlayer clips the bell is ringing loud and clear for a major BBC2 season focusing on education. Two programmes caught my attention; Unequal Opportunities With John Humphrys Monday, 20.09.10 21:00 on BBC Two …
Moving to the English Department this academic year I was looking for a range of English learning activities, spelling tools and edugames to provide transition activities at the start or end of the lesson. This ‘need’ brought me back to …
Life is curly. Don’t try to straighten it out. Follow my first meeting with as middle leader, as a senior leader I was able to use some of the basic ideas and tips I had highlighted from my summer reading …
A teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be. If children have interest, then education happens. I personally admire Professor Sugata Mitra faith in learners, the learning process and his conceptual capacity. As teachers, most of us …
