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Manage your Emails to Cut Down your Workload
Maxim Kelly offers some practical tips for school leaders faced with email inboxes that threaten to consume their working hours...
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Is Your School’s Monitoring and Assessment Data Actually Useful?
Schools are now awash with monitoring, testing and performance data – but are your staff able to access the details they need to see in a way that’s intelligible?
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Our house, is a very, very, very fine house…
Having been fortunate enough to spend a career working across a rich variety of settings, centres and schools - both private and state led - I have seen many examples of the house system; and many examples of both the best - and the most pointless - systems and what they do or don't achieve.
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Building character: why we do what we do.
The belief in my school centres around developing learning habits. We’ve implemented a strand in our curriculum designed to instil in our pupils a growth mindset philosophy. This means we believe that everybody can learn and succeed with the right attitude. Courage, tenacity and self belief are crucial, we believe, to learning and can be developed by how we recognise and reward success.
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Executive leadership: you can’t be in two places at once!
I remember that my first big decision was the decision I agonized over the most. I found it incredibly difficult to decide where I would physically be at the start of the day on day number one. Which school should I go to first, which set of parents should I speak to first, which pupils would I be there for to say “good morning” to, which staff team would I chat to before the school gates opened? I worried because I was so new to this role – and I was finding for the first time that my kind of leadership (the very personal, the very hands-on, the very visible and the very involved in the fine detail) was not a leadership style that could work when leading a federation of schools.