Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get. – W.P. Kinsella
Reflections of a leader
Reflections on leadership, teaching, learning, assessment and the wider education of young people
22:35 – Antoine Leiris
I am sitting on my own in front the television in the living room. My laptop settled upon a cushion. I am spring cleaning today’s emails. The news reporter’s voice is clear, but his words are at the back of my consciousness. My …
Can I get back to you on that one…
Teacher workload concerns are were headline issues. Something tells me that teachers are extremely busy doing the job (and more; Easter sessions, Saturday sessions, breakfast clubs, booster sessions, after school sessions), to keep it in the headlines. If you ever find yourself agreeing …
A rather RACI #Edfest
Look, I will be brutally honest with you, there was very little that was raci “racey” about my #Educationfest though there was a good deal that was of value and two, as yet, unanswered questions. RACI was just an acronym …
Retrieval more important than revision
At the back end of January 2011 I was reading the research findings by Jeffrey D. Karpicke, Assistant Professor of Psychological Sciences at Purdue. In a nutshell, Karpicke’s research shows that practising retrieval is an even more effective strategy than …
A calm sea does not make a skilled sailor
To paraphrase steal John Tomsett’s opening blog line – have been a VP for just 3 terms and, at the age of 39, what I know about school leadership… is less than I have to learn about school leadership. Every …
Drive time gems
The 100 minute drive time has thrown up a few gems recently. A little common sense, a little Carol Dweck, and a three pointer from Julius Irving. All bookmarked neatly on the Audible app. ’Goldilocks tasks’ – challenges that are not too …
Solutions, and strange ideas
The solution only make sense once you understand the problem. Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down – Ray Bradbury Success comes through rapidly fixing our mistakes rather than getting things …