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Education Leaders

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

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Advice feels good. That's the problem.

Happy Friday, Reader You’ve just watched a lesson. The form in front of you has seven things on it and the teacher has done five. You could name the missing two in ninety seconds and be out the door, and it would feel like helping. I’ve done exactly that. Not because I thought little of the teacher, but because it was March, something was due, and I wanted things to move. Jim Knight has a description for what those ninety seconds do. They treat a teacher like someone stocking shelves rather...

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...