After three days of an SSAT Conference you left bruised. Keynotes poke and prod at your leadership thinking, some more aggressively than others. Workshops leave you eager to walk a different path and for ‘green, aspirational leaders,’ like myself, the conversations around and about the conference, provide numerous opportunities to observe experienced leaders ‘at work.’…
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Ask yourself, is there one thing I can do, tomorrow or next week, to inject some more autonomy, to provide a little space for non-commissioned work (in your classroom or your organisation). Daniel Pink It is an old article, but a good indicator of what non-commissioned or 20% Google work time is all about. If…
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A site for English students to help with GCSE and A Levels (tags: english, aqa, lesson)
Registration was simple and #NC10 customary recycled mini ‘potato’ gift sack gratefully received it I made my way over to Prof Dylan Williams presentation. [blackbirdpie id=”7383270597595136″] You can’t use 21st skills without a good dose of 19th century content. Dylan Williams knowledgeable, researched based delivery was both convincing and challenging. Later on in the presentation,…
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First, where is the hashtag key on a mac keyboard? ALT AND 3 together, come on. This is my 3rd Annual National Conference. To date, I have found the conference invigorating, a real cerebral workout. Every year I get to talk educational leadership with our Head on the drive up, 2 hours (pending on how…
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