Having recently attended Dr Paul Browning’s seminar Trust in Leadership: How trusted are you as a leader? I am onto his ebook. Compelling Leadership: The importance of trust and how to get it Trust – as highlighted in the first post, is …
Back in 2016 I read an article by Dr Paul Browning (Headmaster of St Paul’s School in northern Brisbane) at the same time that ASCL published their think-piece – Blueprint for a Self-Improving System. The opening quotation still resonating loudly …
Today I received notice that a book review I wrote for The Chartered College of Teaching is now published. It is a refreshed and improve version of a post I wrote back in September – now with added hindsight. Six …
Teaching is messy, complex, creative. More a la carte than fast food. We are not measuring uniformity. I am not convinced that ‘performance reviews’ even valid? In the same way I am not convinced that interviews lead to the correct …
Leaders who do not listen, will eventually be surrounded by people with nothing to say. – Andy Stanley Social media flashes up interesting snippets here and there, like the quote above. Given my thinking around communication, it is worthwhile reminding …
At the macro level, education is in a perpetual cycle of change. Policy, accountability and curriculum frameworks have school in a spin. Schools themselves (or groups of school) evolve, priorities are reshaped or reformed and the same could be said …
There is always room for learning. At our OneSchool National Conference Sarah Martin, Foundation Principal of Stonefields School spoke twice at the event. First on building change momentum, enabling collaborative high functioning teams, future visioning and second, on learning in a building with …
The main purpose of feedback is to improve the student and not the work… – Dylan Wiliam I hold my hands up, I need to do better here.
