“Great schools rarely go it alone. The most successful schools are not isolated and …
Can less be more?
In TES (27 July 2018) Lee Elliot Major & Steve Higgins quote the poet William Blake who said: “You never…
Building self-efficacy
When I was a head, on one staff day we arranged for Ian Gilbert from ‘Independent Thinking’ to come to…
Learning from positive and negative leadership role models
Chances are that over the course of your career in teaching, you will come into contact with a wide range…
How leaders can support those they lead to achieve a healthy balance in their lives
A week ago I wrote a post about how leaders can safeguard their own well-being. I also answered interview questions…
GUEST POST from Helena Marsh. Early headship: Take the weather with you
The key lessons learnt, highlights and formative moments from my first four months of headship could be confused with a…
Leadership and well-being
When you have a leadership position within a school, at any level, there are two aspects of staff well-being that…
The importance of communication
I have written elsewhere about the importance of establishing the most positive and, I hope, mutually respectful relationship between senior…
Own your success!
Recently the wonderful Carly Waterman posted a tweet featuring an article by India Knight in The Sunday Times Magazine from…
The joys and challenges of supporting girls
Of the six schools in which I worked as a teacher and leader, three were girls’ schools. My own education…