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Building Family Partnerships: The InvolvEd way. This post was written by Darren Silver, the Digital Advocate at Canons High School, about his work developing and trialling an app with InvolvEd. Let’s be honest, in the world of education it is no secret that parental engagement is crucial when it comes to improving student learning outcomes. […]
June 6, 2017
A few days ago I received this tweet from Laura McInerney. Which included a link to this Guardian article she had written. Now it’s always nice to be name-checked for something, and even more so when that name-check is for a very well-intentioned article on an issue you care deeply about, by a person you […]
May 11, 2017
In my last blogpost I wrote about the kind of school we try to be at Canons. In response, someone suggested that I try to capture staff perspectives about working at the school. What a great idea, I thought. The next day I asked staff in briefing to contribute their thoughts so that I could […]
May 1, 2017
Are you looking for a school that cares as much for its staff as for its students: a school that knows that it is only through caring for staff that it can care for students? Are you bruised and battered by your experiences in the education sector: contemplating leaving work in schools because of the […]
April 25, 2017
ResearchED is an edugeek’s paradise Even though we had thoroughly recharged our batteries over Easter and only been back at work for four days (three if you discount the INSET day – which of course we DON’T), it was bloody lovely to get away from it all to the second, and hopefully annual, ResearchED Scandinavia […]
April 22, 2017
It’s lunchtime at ResearchED Scandinavia 2017. I’m sat in the gargantuan lobby of a gargantuan school in Norway that is hosting us. This morning I’ve heard some good sessions: one from David Didau that has generated some twitter activity, one from Tine Prøitz that has really got me thinking, and also one from Tom Bennett […]
April 13, 2017
The DfE, and the government more widely, have got themselves into a bit of a pickle. The division between what they say they want to achieve and what they are actually doing has diverged so far that they are unable to reconcile the two: rhetoric and reality have boarded trains heading in two opposite directions. […]
April 7, 2017
The other night I tweeted out the following story, assuming that it would be a slam dunk with the twitterati, or at least the vast majority of them. I mean, seriously, who on my timeline was going to dislike the idea of applying VAT to private education fees (I hadn’t even realised that they were […]
March 25, 2017
Upon becoming Headteacher at Canons two and a half years ago, I set out to bring together the disparate views of various people involved in the work of our school into a medium-term vision for the road ahead. I won’t go into too many of the details here, but it involved conversations with governors, staff, […]
March 11, 2017
Perhaps one of the most pervasive myths around school leadership at the moment is what school leaders like to call Football Manager Syndrome (FMS for the remainder of this post). I wasn’t at the ASCL conference but I’m guessing that the words rang out on numerous occasions over the duration of the weekend. The myth, […]
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