Headteachers

Enabling The Enablers

Mike May 25, 2023May 25, 2023Assisting Teaching, Governors, Headteachers, HLTA, LSA, TA Leave a comment

Facilitating the work of those that assist teaching. It wasn’t a planned journey. It wasn’t even a journey I had anticipated. Nevertheless, I found myself journeying into the world of those that assist teaching. Having seen at first hand the impact of my school leadership development tool, a headteacher enquired if I had a similar tool to support the teaching assistants within her school. At the time I didn’t have such a tool but, over that summer, I created one … Continue reading “Enabling The Enablers“

●Can’t see beyond Covid and the curriculum?

Mike September 6, 2021September 6, 2021expectations of formal leadership practice, Headteachers, headteachers' standards, leadership standards, school, self-evaluation Leave a comment

Whilst politicians and others desperately try to convince everyone that schools are back to normal, the reality is very different. They are back to the new normal. One headteacher I know had planned a day of activities designed to lead to the creation of a school vision in which all staff felt fully engaged, only to be hit with a Covid ‘local decision-making framework’, the ‘hierarchy of controls’ and ‘updated operational guidance’ – resulting in the fact that she could … Continue reading “●Can’t see beyond Covid and the curriculum?”