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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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Your timetable is a belief document

Happy Friday, Reader A while back I was on a panel in Shanghai sitting next to an architect. He talked about people for most of the hour and I've been trying to get him on the podcast ever since. When a school goes to Phil Idle's practice wanting a building, it usually turns up with a list. Six classrooms, a science lab. Sensible enough, except that every number on that list has already answered a question about what learning is, and nobody in the room sat down and asked it. Nanjing...

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...