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Leading beyond remits: does our leadership help staff to grow?

About a year ago I started to notice something when I met with leaders across schools. When I asked them about their role as a leader, the first thing they started to tell me about was often about their specific remit at school.  I lead the curriculum.  I’m the pastoral lead.  I look after personal development.  All…

How to create school Superteams

I recently enjoyed Tom Sherrington’s post on how we need to help our staff teams do brilliant work together if we want to see improvement across the school. He discusses how teams need time, structure, and a culture of high-quality feedback to help improve their work, amongst other things – please go and have a read! It…

An adoptee: reflections on schools and leadership

Every one of us has a unique story, a set of circumstances and challenges that make us who we are, and we bring that part of us to school or work every day. I’ve always tried to visualise the hundreds, or thousands, of stories coming through the school gates every morning, and consider how we…

Bouncebackability: how educators keep moving forward

In education, every day can be a rollercoaster. You can be flying high all morning, only for something to knock you a bit in the afternoon. Your week can be a bit grim and then out of nowhere, an affirming moment turns it all around. Whether, the sudden change is positive or negative, we have…

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