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Enablers
These are the people who have the power to pave the way for a colleague’s inexplicably meteoric rise to the top, or those responsible for shoring up toxic power figures. This post will explore who these people are in schools and the impact of enabling poisonous leaders. Those aspiring to leadership roles will, at some point, be told that they must build a network of people around them to…
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#agenda#class#culture#elitism#enabler#governors#hierarchies#independent schools#leadership#management#power#privilege#school#slt#Staff#teachers
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Cruel and Unusual Punishment
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We may expect our colleagues to be the adults in a school, but rarely is this the case.. Underneath the thin veneer of structure, order and hierarchy upon which schools and its learners so heavily depend [or rail against!] is a seething mass of jealousy, hatred, bullying and cruelty. Staff bullying their own colleagues is a huge issue in schools and this post will look at some instances where…
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Beware the Educational Consultant
Got a problem? Let’s get in a consultant to sort it out for us. They all play slightly different roles depending on the school need, but they monetise their allegedly prestigious work CVs and ‘experience’. This is repackaged, bought and sold at high rates back to schools. This blog will consider their uses in more detail. Getting in an EC is the knee-jerk reaction from so many Heads. The more…
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The Cream Never Rises to the Top
Cream never rises to the top
There are excellent teachers, managers and leaders in education. Yet you never hear about them. This post will explore some of the reasons why The Cream never rises to the top in schools. I have worked with some brilliant teachers, mentors and leaders in my career. They had several things in common: they worked hard, were honest [often to a painful fault!], good at what they did and were broadly…
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Another Brick in the Wall
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