Senior Leadership

Coaching Podcasts Policies 

Podcast 10: How Can School Leaders Protect Their Staff?

23rd February 201828th October 2018 Iesha Small 1689 Views 0 Comments Assembly, Claire Young, CPD, Headteacher, inspirational, new zealand rugby team, Podcast, Richard Gerver, School Speakers, Senior Leadership, The Apprentice, Training, Workload

Reading Time: 1 minute Why do school leaders need to learn to protect their staff from external nonsense?

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DfE Policies Teaching and Learning 

9 Teaching Ideas to Bin in 2018

1st January 201831st December 2017 @TeacherToolkit 15325 Views 26 Comments #OfSTEDBanners, Amanda Spielman, Appraisal, Assessment, banners, Bin, books looks, coloured pens, Data, Department for Education, Graded Lessons, Jarlath O’Brien, Lesson observations, letterheads, logos, Loic Menzies, Marking, MockSTED, Nick Gibb, Ofsted, Performance-related pay, polarisation, Progressive, PRP, Richard Kennett, Senior Leadership, Teaching Ideas, Tom Sherrington, Traditional, work scrutinies, Workload, Yellow Box

Reading Time: 7 minutes What teaching ideas would you like to say goodbye to in 2018?

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Leadership Resources 

Self Review: For Appraisal Or Development?

16th September 201716th September 2017 @TeacherToolkit 6270 Views 0 Comments accountability, Appraisal, Capability, Department for Education, Dr. Gary Jones, Dylan Wiliam, Middle Leadership, Ofsted, pay scale, Performance Management, Policies, Professional development, Professor Rob Coe, Resources, Senior Leadership, Statutory, target setting, targets, Teachers' Standards, Threshold

Reading Time: 5 minutes How does your school conduct its performance management and appraisal?

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Leadership Middle Leadership 

10 Risks A Senior Teacher Could Take This Academic Year

12th September 201717th October 2018 @TeacherToolkit 5352 Views 3 Comments Appraisal, bully, cover, evidence, Lesson gradings, Marking, Middle Leadership, observation, Performance Management, Senior Leadership, SLT, SMT, Support Staff, victimisation, Wellbeing

Reading Time: 3 minutes If you are (or know) a senior teacher, what ‘risks’ could a school leader take this academic year?

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Exams Ofsted 

Outcome Conversations Damage Schools

11th September 201711th September 2017 @TeacherToolkit 4127 Views 4 Comments Data, Data Dashboard, GCSEs, Head teacher, high-attaining pupils, HMI, Inspection, Looked After Children, Ofsted, Outliers, Progress 8, RAISE, RAISEOnline, School Inspections, Senior Leadership, Suicide, Watchdog

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

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Interview Teaching Secrets 

An Internal Stitch-Up

10th September 201710th September 2017 A Teacher 2318 Views 4 Comments Coaching, Feedback, GCSE, Interview, job, Job interview, Pastoral, selection panel, selection process, Senior Leadership

Reading Time: 2 minutes What happens when teachers are faced with an ‘internal applicant’ during an interview process? 

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Ofsted Teaching and Learning 

The False Proxy Trap

10th September 201710th September 2017 @TeacherToolkit 3380 Views 3 Comments Education, Head teacher, HMI, Inspection, Ofsted, School Inspections, Schools, Senior Leadership, Students, Watchdog

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

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Ofsted Research 

Attitudes to OfSTED

6th August 20174th August 2017 @TeacherToolkit 3605 Views 0 Comments gradings, Lesson observations, lesson plans, Ofsted, Research, School Inspections, Sean Harford, Senior Leadership, Survey, teacher attitudes, YouGov

Reading Time: 3 minutes What are teachers’ attitudes towards the school inspectorate, OfSTED? 

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CPD Ofsted Teaching and Learning 

You Couldn’t Make It Up!

29th July 2017 @TeacherToolkit 11292 Views 0 Comments Inadequate, leadership, Ofsted, Professional development, Requires Improvement, School Inspection, Senior Leadership, Special Measures, Teaching and Learning

Reading Time: 5 minutes Have you ever had to ‘produce a document’ on the day for a school inspection?

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DfE Leadership Ofsted 

21 Rhetorical Questions

28th May 201722nd May 2018 @TeacherToolkit 11112 Views 5 Comments accountability, Behaviour, challenging, Consultation, Department for Education, DfE, Fair Funding, Inadequate, inspectors, MAT, Multi Academy Trust, Ofsted, OfSTED complaints, opaque, Outstanding, Recruitment, Retention, School Inspection, School Inspections, SEN, Senior Leadership, senior teacher, Special Measures, transparency, Zero Tolerance

Reading Time: 2 minutes What rhetorical questions would you ask ‘about education’?

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DfE Ofsted Teaching and Learning 

Focus on Teaching Not Grades!

29th April 201729th April 2017 @TeacherToolkit 6582 Views 0 Comments Department for Education, Education Excellence Everywhere, General Election, Nicky Morgan MP, Ofsted, Purdah, School Inspection, Senior Leadership, teaching learning and assessment, White Paper

Reading Time: 3 minutes What if teaching and learning is no-longer a priority for schools?

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CPD Leadership Teaching and Learning 

The Life of a Deputy Headteacher: Part 9

19th February 201729th April 2018 @TeacherToolkit 5062 Views 0 Comments Appraisal, Coaching, Deputy Headteacher, Education, Investors In People, leadership, Mark-Plan-Teach, Quintin Kynaston, School, Senior Leadership, SLT, Teacher Development Trust, Teaching and Learning, The Life of a Deputy Headteacher

Reading Time: 4 minutes What does the work in school look like as ‘the life of a deputy headteacher’?

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Leadership Middle Leadership Teaching and Learning 

The Life of a Deputy Headteacher: Part 8

25th September 201629th January 2018 @TeacherToolkit 4429 Views 1 Comment Appraisal, August, Autumn term, October, Performance-related pay, Senior Leadership, September, summer examinations, The Life of a Deputy Headteacher

Reading Time: 4 minutes What does a typical term look like in ‘the life of a deputy headteacher’?

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Leadership 

10 Things You Didn’t Know About School Leadership

13th August 201630th July 2016 @TeacherToolkit 12602 Views 3 Comments Ideologies, Influence, Power, Senior Leadership, SLT

Reading Time: 1 minute What can we assume about some of our senior teachers working in schools?

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Leadership 

Better To Be Lucky Than Good?

21st April 201621st April 2016 Paul Ainsworth 2982 Views 5 Comments A street car named Desire, Clint Eastwood, Dirty Harry, Ed Smith, Future Leaders, Gary Player, Marlon Brando, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Senior Leadership

Reading Time: 3 minutes Is headship more about skill or luck?

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Leadership 

Do You Want To Be A Headteacher?

14th April 201614th April 2016 @TeacherToolkit 8546 Views 6 Comments headship, Headteacher, Kenny Frederick, leadership, Senior Leadership

Reading Time: 4 minutes What motivates someone to become a head teacher of a school? What puts people off headship?

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Leadership Middle Leadership 

21 Leadership Habits

1st February 201619th February 2016 @TeacherToolkit 12227 Views 2 Comments @Staffrm, EduSketch, leadership, Senior Leadership, Sketchnote

Reading Time: 5 minutes What leadership habits are required of school leaders?

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