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Motivating Mondays: Speed Dating with your Headteacher!

May 7, 2012

As a Headteacher you are always striving to improve communication between yourself and your staff to build better relationships. Well I wonder if you have ever thought of speed dating. This is a creative take on a classic model explained to me by a primary school Headteacher in a recent coaching/mentoring session. This Headteacher has [...]

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Motivating Mondays: A poem for your first term in a new school

April 16, 2012

Wow! This emotive and direct poem could have been written for your first term in a new school. Read or watch and listen (2m40) for yourself the stiring words from Amena Brown. “Different backgrounds and voices, but one heart accepting the charge to lead, to follow, to build a community because we want to do more than [...]

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Motivating Mondays: What Gordon Ramsay taught me this week

March 26, 2012

 I had an evening to myself on Wednesday and I thought that, rather than read the book I had been reading, I would just start a new book completely for me. From my big pile of ‘I want to read these someday books’ I chose an autobiography by the famous chef, Gordon Ramsay called Humble [...]

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Incisive Questions – remove limiting assumptions and set the mind free

January 28, 2012

How often have you been asked to think about something in a different way or find new ways of doing a task and your first reaction is ‘I can’t do that’ or ‘thats impossible’? People make limiting assumptions all the time and they can hold people back from doing what they want to do or [...]

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Down with Boring Meetings!

December 30, 2011

I hate meetings where we are sent documents to read beforehand and then the documents are read out during the meeting. What is worse, when this is done and then no one has much to comment on them, what was the point? What would you do if you had made time to read it beforehand, [...]

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I’m learning with 40+ teachers and I haven’t even left my office!

November 2, 2011

I have just listened into a National College Live Online Seminar called The Impact of New Technology on Children’s Learning. It was well organised, attended my many more people than would have tuned up at a single venue and the speaker, David Mitchell from Heathfield Primary, was inspiring too! Above all David resonated enthusiasm about LEARNING and in a calm, [...]

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Leadership and Learning are Indispensable to Each Other

October 7, 2011

We believe that all school staff are leaders. Whether you are leaders in the classroom or staff room. We all have the potential to influence the mood and motivation of others, even when we don’t know we are doing it. We can choose our attitude and choose how we talk to others. Take the conversations we [...]

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Teachers don’t like being done to

May 14, 2011

I think the following quote is very true and important for anyone planning CPD in schools to keep at their core. “Teachers don’t like being done to. They are professionals and you need to partner them and help them find their own solutions to a situation.” Ian Nurser, Shropshire primary headteacher and National Leader of Education. [...]

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Somewhere Over the Rainbow

May 23, 2010

For Danielle Hope, winner of ‘Over the Rainbow‘ this weekend, her learning journey continues towards eight shows a week on the West End stage. As a headteacher your learning journey is also in full swing. You can boost your leadership by seeing the world from a new perspective too. To find out how go to www.BoostLeadership.com where you [...]

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4 elements to consider when setting a vision

May 17, 2010

In the best schools I know, the vision is embedded in everything every stakeholder does, be it Headteacher, staff, students, parents or governors.Many of these visions have been driven by an initial spark from a visionary head teacher, but then this headteacher has skilfully involved each and every stakeholder in defining the vision and keeping [...]

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