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

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Alpha School and the rush to judge

Happy Friday, Reader So this week I have been doing a bit of reading into this Alpha School movement. I’m pretty new to it, so I’m still forming a view myself. But what’s interesting is there’s been a massive reaction to some of the people who are working there, and it’s made me think a lot about how quickly we often decide what someone else’s choices mean. So if you’re catching up with this, Alpha is this school network currently in the US, built around quite a radically different school...

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...