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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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Did I actually do enough today?

Happy Friday, Reader You tell the interview panel you’ll spend your first term listening. You mean it. Then you get the job, spend your days talking to people, and start wondering whether they’re waiting for you to do something. Academic Principal, Andrew Miller, described this in our conversation this week. Even while he was being useful in his new role, he found himself questioning whether he was doing enough of what he’d been appointed to do. I think a lot of us get into leadership because...

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...