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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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Who decides when you rest?

Happy Friday Reader Emma booked the holiday we've just come back from. If it had been left to me, I don't think it would have happened. I think it's because for most of my working life I never made that decision. For fifteen years as a teacher and then a school leader, the calendar made it for me. Term finished and you stopped, whether you felt ready for it or not. Then I went out on my own, the structure went with it and nothing took its place, so it's just me deciding now. I'm very good at...

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...