Making pride an everyday practice
A month of Pride kicked off in June 2019 and kick-started the celebration of LGBTQ rights and the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. It…
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How to accept & support today’s youth culture
Long gone are the days when teachers were the main source of inspiration for their students. We, like most parents are now competing with bredrin,…
Let’s refresh rather than recover in September 2020
We cannot begin September by talking about ‘lost learning’ or a ‘recovery curriculum’. Nothing has been lost because it was never there. There is nothing…
Does performance management enhance teaching practice?
In schools, Mid Year reviews are being completed and teachers are seeing how they are progressing against their targets, but are these objectives simply taking…
Crisis Leadership through COVID-19
Whilst we are in the midst of a global crisis that we are all struggling through, many of us will be looking for any distraction…
Mentoring your mentee effectively
When I was training to become a teacher, my mentor was everything. She was not just my professional and subject mentor, but also my personal…
Performance reviews
“Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter” so says Carol Bishop Heaps and she’s right.
Preparing for your lesson observation!
Lesson observations are always scary! It does feel a little like you are being watched in a zoo and performing tricks and it is often…
The First Week as Head of Faculty
There are plenty of skills and responsibilities associated with the role of Head of Faculty. My time is divided between teaching, on-call, duties and line…
Hitting the Ground Running as a Senior Leader!
If you are a senior leader either taking up a headship, deputy headship or assistant headship, you will be starting to think about September already…