Don’t manage teachers with data. Manage your teachers with your theory. Manage your theory with the data…
Category: Schools
Gatekeeping
As a leader you are actively policing the boundary of your organisation. Keeping out the toxins and distractions, seeking out the assets and the insights…
The pace of change
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a business article must begin by declaring the unprecedented and accelerating pace of change in our global hyperconnected era…
Undelegation
It can be gratifying to have people working for us. The reality is that they should be working for something greater than us…
Teacher Development Conference 2019
These are parts of my speech to the 2019 cohort of Teach First at the Teacher Development Conference in Leeds. 1735 brilliant new trainee teachers; it was a thrill to meet them. It was hottest day in a very hot August, in case you’re wondering about sartorial choices…
Strong and stable
This was my final article, I think, while at the NAHT, published with TES in June 2017. It captured many of my conclusions about effective leadership and the sometimes toxic relationship between politics and the profession. “Strong and stable leadership? School bosses embody it “It’s time for a different approach to leadership, says Russell Hobby […]
Note to self 