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The Night My Brother Died
I’m not even sure that I want to write this post. I know it needs writing, and I know that sooner or later it will get written. On January 27th next year it will be the 30th anniversary of the events I am about to describe and so I can’t hope to avoid writing these […]
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It’s Personal and it’s Professional: Supervision in Education Part 4
September 12, 2023
This is the fourth of four posts I have planned related to my session at the ResearchED National Conference on Saturday 9th September. In the first post, I outlined why I believe that recent evidence indicates that there is a need for supervision within education. In the second post I explored what is, and isn’t, meant by the term […]
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Supervision in Education Part 3: Learning from Models of Supervision in Other Domains
September 7, 2023
This is the third of four posts I have planned related to my session at the ResearchED National Conference on Saturday 9th September. In the first post, I outlined why I believe that recent evidence indicates that there is a need for supervision within education. In the second post I explored what is, and isn’t, meant by the term […]
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Supervision in Education Part 2: Defining Supervision
September 5, 2023
This is the second of four posts I have planned for my session at the ResearchED National Conference on Saturday 9th September. In the first post, I outlined why I believe that recent evidence indicates that there is a need for supervision within education. The third post will outline what models and modalities of supervision there […]
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Supervision in Education Part 1: Why it is Needed
September 1, 2023
This is the first of four posts I have planned ahead of my session at the ResearchED National Conference on Saturday 9th September. In the second post, I will be looking to explore what is, and isn’t, meant by the term ‘supervision’. The third post will outline what models and modalities of supervision there are […]
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Complexity and School Leadership: Exploring the Rabbit Hole
January 21, 2023
“I wonder if I’ve been changed in the night. Let me think. Was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I’m not the same, the next question is ‘Who in the world am I?’ Ah, that’s the great puzzle!” Lewis Carroll […]
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New Year. New Future.
January 2, 2023
I haven’t written a blogpost for some time now and so it makes sense, as one of my New Year’s resolutions, to try again with something that brought me so much joy and connection (the two are connected) when I used to blog regularly. That is just one of my many resolutions this January. I […]
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ResearchED 2019 National Conference – My Favourite So Far
September 7, 2019
It’s that time again. All the hope of a new school year combined with the body shock of getting up early each morning. And then, just as we think the endless first week has ended, we submit ourselves to the rigours of academic thinking that we hope will be of some use to us in […]
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Working with Complexity in School Leadership
November 11, 2017
Today saw the end of our Teaching School Alliance’s first iteration of our programme ‘Working with Complexity in School Leadership’. After six Saturday morning sessions across 2017, the six members of our first cohort bade farewell to one another at the conclusion of what, for me, has been the most interesting and enjoyable CPDL of […]
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CPDL at Canons in 2016/17
July 1, 2017
This year at Canons, our People & Professionalism Team took the bold step of making all our non-departmental, non-year team meetings optional to staff. Many years ago we made our Teaching and Learning Communities (TLCs) optional in terms of which ones teachers could choose (so many schools still direct staff), but this was the next […]
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