That's not what I said
Mention your workload and what you really mean is you want an easy ride. Question one new initiative and obviously you're…
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Mention your workload and what you really mean is you want an easy ride. Question one new initiative and obviously you're…
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I was at a conference recently and lost count of how many times I heard the phrase "research says." It's become a kind of full…
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When I first stepped into leadership, I didn’t really know who I was supposed to be. So I did what most people do. I looked…
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There's a school in the south of Spain that had everything. Solar panels on the roof, rainwater harvesting, a building designed…
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Tell me if you recognise this. You sit down with someone on your team to give them a small steer. Not difficult feedback, just a…
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A friend and I were catching up a couple of weeks ago, and we both ended up admitting the same thing. We've each got far too…
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Walking into someone else's context with a recommendation ready is one of the easiest mistakes to make in school leadership, and…
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When Change Starts Here came out, I sat there waiting to be found out. My name was on the cover next to Efraim's. I should have…
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Imagine you've made a call at school today. Maybe it was tough feedback on a lesson observation. Maybe you signed off a…
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Most school leaders I speak to want their students to leave school with the confidence to do something useful in the world. The…
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I walked into a school last month and within twenty minutes I'd already started building a story in my head about what needed to…
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I was working with a school recently that had a behaviour challenge. Or at least, that’s what they thought. Every teacher was…
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A few weeks ago I posted a poll on LinkedIn. Dead simple question. When an outside trainer comes into your school to deliver a…
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Episode 151 went out this week. And I did something I probably should have done a long time ago. I properly introduced myself.…
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Picture a classroom in Shanghai. Grade 9. A teacher asks students to hold up mini whiteboards showing their answers. She scans…
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Elizabeth Newton did a study at Stanford where she split people into tappers and listeners. Tappers had to knock out a…
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When a parent describes your school to a friend, what do they actually say? Not what you hope they say. Not the mission…
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