“Great schools rarely go it alone.  The most successful schools are not isolated and             …

In TES (27 July 2018) Lee Elliot Major & Steve Higgins quote the poet William Blake who said: “You never…

When I was a head, on one staff day we arranged for Ian Gilbert from ‘Independent Thinking’ to come to…

Chances are that over the course of your career in teaching, you will come into contact with a wide range…

A week ago I wrote a post about how leaders can safeguard their own well-being.  I also answered interview questions…

The key lessons learnt, highlights and formative moments from my first four months of headship could be confused with a…

When you have a leadership position within a school, at any level, there are two aspects of staff well-being that…

I have written elsewhere about the importance of establishing the most positive and, I hope, mutually respectful relationship between senior…

Recently the wonderful Carly Waterman posted a tweet featuring an article by India Knight in The Sunday Times Magazine from…

Of the six schools in which I worked as a teacher and leader, three were girls’ schools.  My own education…