On Thursday 15 November 2018 I was pleased to be invited by David Weston to speak at a Teacher Development Trust conference in Manchester on the subject… Read more “Leadership to support a coaching culture”

An exchange on Twitter today made me thoughtful. I recognise that building trust is key to positive professional (and personal!) relationships, and trust is something which can… Read more “Trust”

In last Friday’s edition of ‘Schools Week’, Steve Mastin, Chair of the Conservative Education Society, engaged in a debate with Mary Bousted about the future of Ofsted. … Read more “The good, the bad and the struggling – which are you?”

Following the publication of a recent post about how you can establish yourself as positively as possible when you move into a new leadership role, I became… Read more “Internally promoted?”

Comedian Rob Delaney has sparked a Twitter debate about the value of homework, especially in primary schools, reported here by BBC News. Although I’m not a primary… Read more “Is homework pointless?”

My last blog post explored the forming of relationships with new classes, particularly for beginning teachers, and whether the advice not to smile until Christmas was appropriate… Read more “New to leadership this term?”

In tes magazine, 10 August 2018 issue, there were several articles on the subject of how important it is to build the most positive and productive relationships… Read more “New teachers, or seasoned teachers with new classes: “Don’t smile until Christmas….””

“Great schools rarely go it alone.  The most successful schools are not isolated and              separate from their local community and other… Read more “Collaboration and leadership”

In TES (27 July 2018) Lee Elliot Major & Steve Higgins quote the poet William Blake who said: “You never know what is enough unless you know… Read more “Can less be more?”

When I was a head, on one staff day we arranged for Ian Gilbert from ‘Independent Thinking’ to come to talk to us all.  Ian said many… Read more “Building self-efficacy”