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Improving teaching through Performance Related Pay – Good Idea? 2 May 2012 | 06:10 pm
In a report published this week, the UK Government’s Commons Education Select Committee said that “there is an enormous difference in how much children learn depending on who teaches them”. Now I may ...
How to implement great induction 1 May 2012 | 06:30 pm
I never forget, in my (very) early days as a management trainer, saying to a group of school leaders that I was passionate about inducing staff thoroughly …!! I got some strange looks, realised my mis...
Real Innovation from the Grassroots 24 Apr 2012 | 08:17 pm
How would you feel if you could look back on your career in education and say that you had positively affected the lives of millions of pupils and many thousands of teachers, most of whom you didn’t k...
It’a all academic really 18 Apr 2012 | 10:36 pm
Spring 1776. The year of a lot of troubles in the Colonies. True, but not the connection between Spring and 1776 I was thinking of. In April 2012, 1776 schools had gained Academy status since the ince...
Grow your own Governor Experts 28 Mar 2012 | 08:42 pm
As a Chair of Governors responsible for developing the skills and competencies of your governing body, into roles which suit them best, I am sure you would agree that governors need to know more about...
The wrong kind of success 20 Mar 2012 | 11:35 pm
On BBC Radio 4 recently a guest was discussing the reasons that schools sometimes exclude pupils without going through the full process. Whilst not condoning the action in any way, he suggested that s...
Are teaching assistants being deployed effectively? 7 Mar 2012 | 10:00 pm
With reference to the recent article in the Times Educational Supplement (Stephen Exley 24/02/12) I strongly agree that teaching assistants have the capacity to completely transform classroom life. Th...
School leaders: Is it really “lonely at the top”? 1 Mar 2012 | 03:47 am
I have often heard it said that leadership is a lonely job. And I’m sure it is, if you lock yourself in your office, rarely see daylight and work with machines rather than human beings. Yet, I would b...
Giving Feedback Effectively for Great Performance 21 Feb 2012 | 10:00 pm
If you, as a leader in your school, are going to raise standards, then you need to be able to deliver feedback to staff in a way that ensures that it will impact their performance in a way that you wa...
Sir Michael Wilshaw and Going From Good to Great 10 Feb 2012 | 09:55 pm
I am a great fan of the work of Jim Collins, the author of several popular business “must-reads” including a research-heavy but incredibly easy to read book, entitled “From Good to Great”. It was wit...
