Difficult conversations
You think I would have learnt by now… ‘Strike while the iron is hot’ or ‘now, is not always the best time to act.’ The subtleties of leadership, perhaps management is more appropriate here. Regularly we are faced with the …
Leadership
Wellington Leadership Institute
Our invitation to our first leadership seminar shows benefits of being part of a “team.” The growing family of Wellington schools, now six, now enabling more centralised training and collaboration (though understandable that the Chinese school weren’t present this time), …
Data in schools – overview
During most half terms, I try and set aside a morning to update the “Making Sense of Data 0.9.6” booklet. Frustratingly, I still haven’t completed a “final first release 1.0” as I can not seem to keep up with ever …
Interesting comments
Then this afternoon my AP and I were discussing the type of school we wanted to help create, with reference to our leadership responsibility – Teaching and Learning. We have borrowed Sir Tim Brighouse’s sage words, quoting Professor Judith Little. …
Maximum Impact
With just two weeks under our belts, I wanted to create a framework to set the expectations of our Senior Heads of Curriculum, of myself even. A structured conversation in which I could reaffirm our aim and the expectation of …
Processes, systems and constructive decent
Seven months into my new role, the summer term concluded, I have enjoyed a week away with my family and we now eagerly await exam results. I took the opportunity to step back, pause and take stock. As I try …
Leadership at The Wellington Academy
Tonight the NPQSL and NPQML with Paul Francis kicked off at The Wellington Academy. Following 3 months negotiation and preparation our middle and senior leaders programme meet for their first face to face, introduction session. Run over an academic year, …
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 …