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Education Leaders

by Shane Leaning

Weekly newsletter for education leaders around the world. Expect strategies and reflections on the complexity of school leadership.

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Five podcasts for school leaders, one feed

Happy Friday, Reader In July I was in the pub across the road from King's Cross with Adam Kohlbeck, who makes EduPulse, killing an hour before my train. We had been talking about something else and he raised an idea - what if there was a place to bring the best education poscasts together? Because it can be so hard to know which to choose and listen to (there are soooo many) I half agreed at the time. Then I thought about how you found this one. Someone mentioned it, or it went past on a day...

about 6 hours ago • 1 min read

Happy Friday Reader This week, i had the pleasure of working with Masters students at St. Mary’s University Belfast, guest lecturing on what makes professional development actually work. We kept coming back to a brilliant framework from the Education Endowment Foundation that breaks effective PD into 14 mechanisms across four areas. Build knowledge. Motivate staff. Develop teaching techniques. Embed practice. All sensible. All evidence-based. When I asked which mechanism is most often missing...

7 months ago • 2 min read