Does a primary headteacher need to have extensive teaching experience? In this blog, Max Kelly makes a case in favour of extensive teaching experience and suggests it is highly desirable for school leaders to have experienced a range of key stages, across a range of schools. For Max, it's a question of credibility as much as anything else...

In this blog Max Kelly examines some of the daily challenges that can sap school leaders and teachers of energy, and the impact that can have if not kept in check.

In his first blog post of 2022 author Max Kelly reflects on the last two years in schools and shares his predictions for what it all means for the education sector in 2022. Its time to dust down those crystal balls and take a glimpse into the future…

Remote learning, online-learning platforms and home-schooling. It has certainly been a year in which these emerging technologies and pedagogies have grown and developed, especially in response to C19 restrictions and lockdowns. But despite all the progress in these spaces, surely there is still nothing that beats the physical school environment and face-to-face human interaction between teachers and learners. Perhaps a definitive return to all of that is what we should be asking for from Santa this year…

Max Kelly presents a new blog with yet more comparisons between political leadership and school leadership... After a torrid week or so for Boris Johnson and his Tory MPs, the Prime Minister continued his calamitous streak with a bizarre and poorly executed speech to the Confederation of British Industry. I'm not sure that a headteacher would get away with this type of regular performance in a school - so why is Boris Johnson getting away with it in Number 10?