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8 Tips To Develop Effective Leadership Teams

2nd Feb 2023 by Paul Ainsworth

Reading time, 3 minutes: We spend a lot of time supporting teams across the school but what about your leadership team?

Civil Tongue Leadership

Keeping A Civil Tongue In Leadership

12th Jan 2020 by @TeacherToolkit

Reading time, 2 minutes: How does poor leadership manifest itself day-to-day and what impact does it have on others?

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Outcome Conversations Damage Schools

11th Sep 2017 by @TeacherToolkit

Reading time, 4 minutes: What can happen when the ‘wrong data’ is interpreted during an OfSTED inspection?

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The False Proxy Trap

10th Sep 2017 by @TeacherToolkit

Reading time, 5 minutes: How do we stop OfSTED falling into a ‘false proxy trap’?

What makes an outstanding senior leader? #360Review (Part 1 of 6)

20th Dec 2013 by @TeacherToolkit

Reading time, 7 minutes: In my final educational composition for 2013, I am offering a reflection on my own school leadership. What makes an outstanding senior leader? Here, I pose a series of questions for the reader and expose my very own #360Review. This is part one of a six-part leadership series to be posted over the holiday period.

Teacher Recruitment Musings

31st May 2013 by @TeacherToolkit

Reading time, 7 minutes: How do you feel about teacher recruitment?

@TeacherToolkit progress…

29th May 2013 by @TeacherToolkit

Reading time, 4 minutes: Just a quick update on my professional progress (and more) since I announced this in January 2013.

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To Uniform or Not To Unifrom?

14th Apr 2013 by @TeacherToolkit

Reading time, 2 minutes: This post answers the 25th question from my TeacherToolkit Thinking page of Thunks.

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Dear Parent, What I’d Really Like To Say …

2nd Jan 2013 by @TeacherToolkit

Reading time, 3 minutes: What would you most like to say to parents?

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12 Days of Christmas, My Headteacher Gave To Me

16th Dec 2012 by @TeacherToolkit

Reading time, 2 minutes: Some light-hearted fun for the Christmas season …

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A War of Nerves

2nd Dec 2012 by @TeacherToolkit

Reading time, 3 minutes: Trying to win over the hearts and minds of potential students and parents is no easy feat – in many aspects it’s as daunting as facing the dreaded Ofsted inspector, says Ross Morrison McGill.

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Why Should Teachers Encourage Pupils To Ask ‘Why’?

13th Nov 2012 by @TeacherToolkit

Reading time, 4 minutes: This post answers the 19th question from my TeacherToolkit Thinking page of Thunks. You can see my other top-Thunks here.

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