Ofsted Reflections
First, the number of requests for IT Services unsurprisingly peaked this morning. Ian, Alan and I were all in early for an early informal meeting. The next opportunity I had to speak to both Ian and Alan was…. 3:00 before …
Leadership
Outlining vision and leading strategy
Becta or Ofsted?
Who gets my attention this evening? Reading about the demise of Becta or preparing for Ofsted? The immediate job at hand, Ofsted inspection tomorrow, or the immediate future of iCT, Becta? Ofsted have been expected for 3-4 weeks now but …
Important and Urgent then Do It.
I am sure you have come across the decision making matrix / Covey’s quadrants in one form or another. For 3 years, whilst working at Tauntons College, I faced a copy the matrix when sitting at my desk, in an …
How Long Before…
I am sitting in the garden, relaxing, watching my little boy ‘pottle’ and play (Saturday 24th). I have a Twitter conversation in the background talking and exploring Teach Meet Moodle and I am browsing my RSS feeds. Meantime I have …
BectaX
BectaX is a one day conference which will congregate the very best thinkers and doers from education, digital media and policy. Together they will find pragmatic solutions to aid the transition towards 21st Century schools in a connected world I …
#newleaders – Learning on the Job
This past week was probably the busy week of my professional teaching career to date. Here are the reasons; New build IT procurement deadline (handed over to me in January) My wife was away from home Tuesday through Friday on …
Who Are You
360 feedback, questionnaire this, leadership style that. There are many different tools to apply. On a recent course we were asked to complete a simple A4 sheet that outlined your communication / leader preferences. It was very simple and seem …
TEDxNYED
I can not wait to re-watch TEDxNYED. For those of you who have missed out on TED, get stuck in. Great website, great resources as well as literally hundreds of edu blog posts reviewing TEDtalks and even spreadsheets categorising them …