Walking the Walk
I don’t just talk the talk, I’ve walked the walk. A collection of practical reflections on teaching and learning, school leadership and implementation—grounded in evidence and shaped by experience.
The Coaching Trap: Building a Culture of Feedback
How coaching itself isn’t enough. Good schools build a culture of feedback and psychological safety
Children will never become readers
… if they only ever read in reading lessons. We need to craft time for them to relax and settle into reading. If it increasingly isn’t happening at home then we need to make sure it happens at school
Three Conditions to Successful Interventions
All schools have interventions to help children catch up. Here are my thoughts about what makes interventions at my school more successful
When a child is brought to my office
When a child is brought to my office, it can be tempting to resolve it right there and then but is that a missed opportunity for a restorative between the child and the teacher?
I don’t do lesson observations
The doom of the planned lesson observation. A dreaded performance by teachers and a chance for us headteachers to sit and watch some nice teaching which makes a welcome change from writing the SDP or the SEF or dealing with a parental complaint. But is that really the most effective way to judge teaching and learning?