I am a Headteacher, thinking out loud about my own practice (current and past), thoughts from day-to-day experience and the research and colleagues I am fortunate to engage with.
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“We don’t know as much about it (great teaching) as we’d like to. We get glimpses at the moon through a cloudy sky – snippets that give insight. We try and bind them together but we have a precarious grasp of something that is very complicated.”
Robert Coe
From Glaciers to Gardens: Make Sustainability Local
The Local Sustainability Plan: in action The Local Sustainability Action Plan has arrived.It crept in quietly. It arrived with a deadline, aims, a set of pillars. It arrived with expectation.And almost immediately, the conversation shifted to compliance.Not because anyone lacks care. But because schools are used to documents that land heavily. We have learned to…
The Holistic Curriculum: the entirety of the school’s education offer
When we talk about a school’s curriculum, the mind often jumps straight to subjects — the programmes of study, the knowledge maps, the progression models. But the true curriculum of a school extends far beyond the timetable. It is every experience, opportunity, and encounter a child has within the life of the school. It is,…
How Do I Know? They’re Attending to Learning
In the classroom, attention has to be everything. Without it, meaningful and purposeful learning can’t take place. As part of our How Do I Know? series (see my previous post on How Do I Know? Crucial Question for Teachers and Leaders) , the release of Steplab’s Video couldn’t have come at a better time. We…
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