Blog: School leadership Tips
How do some schools do it? How do they manage all the national pressures? Increased complex SEND needs Lack of funding Recruitment crisis Falling roll And then on top of that, the local challenges and nuances of their context? It’s a question I’ve been researching since 2011, finding these schools, visiting them, learning from […]
Can you imagine, if as teachers, we didn’t actively improve our children’s behaviour? That our job was just about learning and not behaviour. Bonkers, right?! It might be a nice idea, but the reality is we’re always developing our children’s behaviour in so many ways. And we certainly catch it when it’s not as it […]
I recently got this message from a headteacher: ‘We are a school that has moved from Special Measures to Requires Improvement in 11 months.All indicators suggest we will be good however I am not aiming for Good for Ofsted. I want an outstanding provision for our students and any CPD that makes us think […]
For over a decade I’ve been helping sort out those tricky staff issues in schools; the ones which require a difficult conversation to fix. Soon after I started, I noticed some issues cropping up regularly. So I started to ask other schools if they needed to have a conversation about any of these issues with […]
I hope SATs went well last week, and the GCSEs & A-Levels continue to. Time. Money. Two resources we never seem to have enough of. But which is more important? Time. Why? Because: money buys time. And what do we do with time? I know school finances are incredibly hard right now. […]
It’s hard in school right now. Falling rolls. Recruitment challenges. Complex needs like we’ve not seen before. I get it. What can you do about it? There’s only so much in your control. And sadly a lot of aspects that aren’t. I’m always looking for those schools who are achieving above average success, in […]