“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”

Chances are that over the course of your career in teaching, you will come into contact with a wide range of different leaders – Middle Leaders, Senior… Read more “Learning from positive and negative leadership role models”

A week ago I wrote a post about how leaders can safeguard their own well-being.  I also answered interview questions from Sam at Schoolwell on my approach… Read more “How leaders can support those they lead to achieve a healthy balance in their lives”

The key lessons learnt, highlights and formative moments from my first four months of headship could be confused with a Crowded House soundtrack… (apologies to the under… Read more “GUEST POST from Helena Marsh. Early headship: Take the weather with you”

When you have a leadership position within a school, at any level, there are two aspects of staff well-being that you need to give attention to: your… Read more “Leadership and well-being”

I have written elsewhere about the importance of establishing the most positive and, I hope, mutually respectful relationship between senior leaders and the rest of the school… Read more “The importance of communication”

Recently the wonderful Carly Waterman posted a tweet featuring an article by India Knight in The Sunday Times Magazine from 15th April.  The article was entitled ‘Women… Read more “Own your success!”

Of the six schools in which I worked as a teacher and leader, three were girls’ schools.  My own education had been entirely in co-ed schools, and… Read more “The joys and challenges of supporting girls”