Future Proof Your School finds a Global Audience…
I must admit that when Julia and Di at Critical Publishing suggested the title of ‘Future Proof Your School‘ for my book of strategies and approaches to encourage school improvement … Continue reading
Building the Curriculum of the Future: Can you help? An Appeal to Education Leaders Worldwide
Noting the general malaise in education reported in the Western world I’m keen to explore solutions. In the past, the standard response to widespread teacher dissatisfaction has been a pay … Continue reading
Transformational Change: From Random School Initiative to Capacity Building and Whole-School Cultural Development
An initiative is needed in your school. It might be needed to plug a deficiency identified internally, or, more alarmingly, in response to a critical report. Most usually the … Continue reading
Future Proof Your School: The Process of Starting and Completing a New Initiative | Briefing Notes #6
In conversations with Headteachers when I ask ‘How are things?’ I habitually get the same reply ‘We are very busy with some new initiatives!’ I find a few queries at … Continue reading
Future Proof Your School: Intelligence Report 2: Understanding School Culture and Building it Into Your Improvement Strategy
In its simplest form, culture can be defined as ‘the way we do things round here’. It is a foolish school leader who fails to factor school culture into improvement … Continue reading
Future Learning 1: Understanding and Ameliorating the Learning Crisis in UK Schools
From any perspective, the past academic years have been challenging for all schools, and teachers and support staff have shown great professionalism and resilience in dealing with a fractured world … Continue reading
The Teacher Recruitment and Retention Crisis
To an extent, there has always been a retention crisis in teaching. Traditionally, in the UK doing a post graduate certificate in education (PGCE) was almost a default setting for … Continue reading
Improving Student and Teacher Performance
I was taken by this simple graphic posted by my friend Stephen Norris and realised, that for all its simplicity it revealed a quite profound truth. Personal performance does vary … Continue reading
Future Proof Your School – A Perceptive UKEd Chat Review by Colin Hill
Always great when someone understands and appreciates the experiences that have gone into the compilation of a book. Such was the case with Colin Hill, who compiled this review of … Continue reading
In Search of Future Learning…
This is where UK school education currently resides… in a stale curriculum based on increasingly redundant knowledge. Taught in cohorts of 30+ to a strict regimen of bells in a … Continue reading
Future Proof Your School review
It is always gratifying when someone comments positively on your book. This is especially true when they so precisely define its use and function. Just as I intended… ‘I am … Continue reading
Best wishes and a free gift for schools in the new academic year: an international CPD library!
Let me begin by wishing you and your school every success in this new academic year, which appears to have all the makings of the most challenging of your career … Continue reading
The Legacy of Sir Ken Robinson: the Challenge and Opportunities of a New Curriculum and Assessment Model
The sad death of Sir Ken Robinson brings the end to the good-natured and robust thinking about how the future of education might be built. Sir Ken not only defined … Continue reading
Finland – Showing the Way With a Subject-Less Curriculum
The idea that a curriculum can be constructed around subject knowledge has always been suspect… who decides which content and does the content reflect contemporary needs or historic antecedents? As … Continue reading
The Thinking School: Linking Culture, Quality, Systems and Teams for Better Learning
I’ve been realigning my portfolio for schools and have the following elements of support available for all. 1. Learning Renaissance Educational Professional Development Insights To gain an international perspective on … Continue reading
Beyond Coronavirus: Templates for sustainable improvement in learning for schools
As the summer term comes to an end in British schools, thoughts turn to the new academic year in September. The disruption brought by the Coronavirus has been fundamental and … Continue reading
My article for Teaching Times on Building Professional Development Capacity published
My article on Building professional development capacity has recently been published in Teaching Times. What a tremendous repository of innovative thinking and ideas Teaching Times is. I can thoroughly recommend … Continue reading
Collaborations: The Way Forward in School Improvement
I was very taken with this graphic when I saw it on a post of one of my LinkedIn colleagues. It seemed to perfectly sum up my conception of a … Continue reading
Beyond the Virus: Planning for a Better Learning Future in Your School
Now that we are well into the delivery of learning during the virus, it might be the opportune time to be thinking about and planning for the ‘new normal’ for … Continue reading
FAO: Headteachers/Principals: Call for informal research partner schools from secondary schools in the UK and internationally to evaluate the impact of Coronavirus on learning development in your school
I’m looking to do some research to explore the transformative impact of the Coronavirus on learning in secondary schools… or not. It forms the next element to my books on … Continue reading
Coronavirus: Are there educational development opportunities for your school?
I earnestly hope that this unprecedented interruption to education caused by the Coronavirus will give teachers space for some creative thinking and that teachers will return to school ready to … Continue reading
The bliss of a good book review: Future Proof Your School reviewed by UKEd Chat
I would have to declare myself well satisfied with this review of my book, Future Proof Your School which appeared in UKEd Chat. It is very gratifying to see that … Continue reading
Coronavirus and Online Learning in Schools: An Appeal for Case Studies
The onset of the Coronavirus pandemic has few positive aspects about it. However, it could be argued that, in a matter of weeks, school use of online learning has moved … Continue reading
Reading in a time of crisis…
Amidst a week of global uncertainty, one positive note for me … both my education based books are in the best sellers list: Future Proof Your School on Amazon, particularly … Continue reading
New Learning Paradigms from Charles Sosnik
An interesting article from Charles Sosnik from California, who demonstrates the way forward for learning seems to be coalescing internationally in independent learning. Learning is becoming consumerized. There is actually … Continue reading
7 Tips for Effective School Leadership | Edutopia
Laura Lee outlines seven areas for engagement for the effective school leader in this article from Edutopia. Quite rightly, she prioritises engagement with people as the critical dimension in creating … Continue reading
The 2020 Critical Publishing Catalogue: The Answer to Questions That Have Been Challenging Schools
It is a really exciting time to be part of the Critical Publishing stable of authors. They have tapped into a rich vein of experience and focus with their Practical … Continue reading
Stuck Schools: Diagnosis, Treatment and Sustainable Improvement
Ross Morrison McGill’s article on the unintended consequences of labelling ‘stuck’ schools resonated with me. As always, Ross Morrison McGill is on the money in his analysis of why schools … Continue reading
Change Management: The Paucity of Project Planning Skills and Cultural Change in Schools
I’m always fascinated when principals tell me how busy they are. It seems that since some of them have become the CEO’s of a number of schools, their perceived workload … Continue reading
A damning view of Ofsted… and a potential way forward: Re-examining what we mean by success in schools
Two things that have happened in the last week have revealed the systemic failure of the Ofsted model of inspection. Firstly Mary Bousted published a damning article on the coming … Continue reading
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