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Laura McInerney @missmc.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

What’s incredible is that men have hardly smashed this leadership thing for the last six years…

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Charlotte Santry @charlottesantry.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Exclusive: £300 a pop for training in an Ofsted inspection framework that’s still subject to consultation. @cerysturner.bsky.social reports on concern over consultants pre-emptively selling services that will “fuel the accountability fire” for headteachers.

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Consultants selling training on new Ofsted system before it’s finalised

School leaders are warned not to pay for courses that promise preparation for Ofsted changes that are still under consultation

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Kathryn Morgan @kathrynmorgan.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Hello folks, it’s my dad’s 10 year anniversary this year and - in April - I’ll be running the London Marathon for the BHF, 10 years after I first did it. I only got my place in Jan so I’m up against it - I’d be so grateful for your support 🙏🏻 Story: 2025tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/kathryn-m...

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On the 25th of February 2015, my beloved dad finally lost his long battle with heart disease. After several years of deteriorating health, his final years were spent at home, lovingly nursed by our wo

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Sam Gibbs @samgibbs.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

It was a real honour to be amongst this group of incredible, thoughtful educators. Looking forward to the work ahead!

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Sam Gibbs @samgibbs.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Literally the last thing the sector needs is more external ‘expertise’ for £££. We need to reduce our reliance on it, not increase it.

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Nathan Lessoncopy @lessoncopy.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Getting every last second of sunshine at the beach this evening 🌊

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Michael Tidd @michaelt1979.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Already amusing myself with the "guess which of the descriptors is meant to be better" game for the new Ofsted toolkits.

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Michael Fordham @michaelfordham.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

These are the examples that Ofsted need to be bombarded with over the consultation. Anyone with half an ounce of sense will see that it is a nonsense that one of these is better than the other.

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Carly Waterman @carlywaterman.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Loved this interview with @jonnyuttley.bsky.social. ✅ Happy, strong communities so people have better lives ✅ If you only ever talk to your direct reports, you get disconnected ✅ How can we help young people - long term? ✅ Small Trusts ARE the system #TeamTEAL m.youtube.com/watch?v=yg8y...

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Authentic Leadership Matters - Jonny Uttley

YouTube video by Behind The Chalkboard

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Andy Hargreaves @ahargreaves.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

What do Kelly Clarkson, The Commitments, Pink Floyd & networks all have in common? They all have a dark side. Read more in my open access editorial for @alm30.bsky.social journal Slam. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @danetteparsley.bsky.social @pmdewitt.bsky.social @stevemunby.bsky.social

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The dark side of networks: and the implications for school leadership

Published in School Leadership & Management: Formerly School Organisation (Vol. 45, No. 1, 2025)

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Carly Waterman @carlywaterman.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

A must-read. Don’t let them demoralise you and convince you it’s all inevitable. Nothing is inevitable.

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Carly Waterman @carlywaterman.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I wrote a blog. It’s been a while! Inspired by @head-teach.bsky.social’s blog ‘Lighthouses & Sirens’ educontrarianblog.com/2025/02/02/l... It’s full of dangerous opinions & ideas that may well run amok as soon as you click the link. Caution advised 😊 watermanlearning.wordpress.com/2025/02/02/w...

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Who tells your story?

It’s a good idea to be cautious about ideas and opinions in education: those that are given on a whim, with no foundation, with little time or forethought given to their basis or their impact…

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Kathryn Morgan @kathrynmorgan.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Delighted to be doing some dissemination and impact work - in the next few months - for the Sustainable School Leadership research project: sustainableschoolleadership.uk Survey closes Monday 3rd. Please complete here: 👇🏻 And please share: sustainableschoolleadership.uk/leadership-s...

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Sustainable School Leadership

Visit the post for more.

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Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

'We must tackle excesses in the pay of MAT senior executives. My preference would be for trusts to abide by a mandatory pay ratio for new appointees [so] the highest-paid cannot receive more than a set multiple of the lowest-paid working in their schools'

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Vandalism? This schools bill should go much further still

Two important provisions are missing that I will be pushing to include in the House of Lords

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Andy Wolfe @andywolfe.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Writing in TES today to share the vision for our new Flourishing Leaders/Flourishing Teachers Programmes launching at our national conference today 🙌 All part of re-imagining education as a career in which adults could expect to flourish. 👍 🌳 🙏 www.tes.com/magazine/ana...

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Tackling teacher retention is about more than just money

The executive director of education for the Church of England explains why it has launched two courses aimed at helping teachers and leaders to flourish

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Sam Gibbs @samgibbs.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

The two biggest problems with the system in stats from @tesmagazine.bsky.social. Ofsted cannot and will not self-reform and, until reform happens, no other meaningful change can. And we need to reduce our reliance on outsourced expertise and develop capacity within and across schools.

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Andrew Morrish @andrewdmorrish.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Really happy to endorse this important piece of leadership research. Please complete the survey in the link if you are a school leader. It’s part of a major 3-year research project exploring contemporary school leadership across the UK by researchers at the Universities of Nottingham and Warwick.

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Introducing the UK Sustainable School Leadership Survey

In this post we introduce the UK Sustainable School Leadership Survey and why it’s important. What do school leaders in each UK nation spend most time on during their working weeks? What profession…

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Tes magazine @tesmagazine.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Instead of arguing about trusts vs maintained schools, let’s focus on collaboration between all schools, ‘which happens organically when we are not pitted against each other through league tables, Progress 8 and Ofsted banners,’ writes @keziah70.bsky.social ⬇️

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The trust versus LA debate is a damaging distraction

Rather than arguing about school structures, we should be focusing on removing accountability levers that are preventing schools of all types from collaborating, argues Keziah Featherstone

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Niki Kaiser @nikika.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

"Children flourish when they are offered inspiring and creative learning experiences within a supportive and engaging environment" Great blog from Hannah Boag on the work two(small) schools did to embed Cog Sci principles in the curriculum @norfolkrs.bsky.social researchschool.org.uk/norfolk/news...

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Applying cognitive science approaches to redesigning the curriculum

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Shane Leaning @shaneleaning.com · 15/01/2025

Such a pleasure to share once again with the brilliant @trustcpdleads.bsky.social yesterday 🙏

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Kathryn Morgan @kathrynmorgan.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Patches of light are breaking through the morning mist on my run - light is always up there!

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AR @psalisbury.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Cassie nailing it.

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Kathryn Morgan @kathrynmorgan.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Struggling to go home to get ready for work…

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Kathryn Morgan @kathrynmorgan.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Exercise class done and the sunrise was our reward 😍

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Kathryn Morgan @kathrynmorgan.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

We did the most beautiful circular walk in Rhossili this morning. About 25 of us met in the car park at 7:30am and did an 8 mile circular route with the most spectacular views. Truly breathtaking with such an array of hues of sky.

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Kathryn Morgan @kathrynmorgan.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

This is a really wonderful idea and will shine a much needed spotlight on the important work of HTs, including the ways in which individual context influences experiences and shapes views. I tip my hat to all headteachers - a super rewarding but tough gig!

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Shana V. White (she/her) @shanavwhite.blacksky.app · 07/01/2025

The line between news and entertainment has been blurred by social media over the last decade because we have fewer people who are able to critically analyze, read for understanding, and think critically. Buckle up, it's only going to get worse.

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Marc Rowland @marcrowland73.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

On the subject of ‘fun / disadvantage / attendance’, we have written about these issues in depth in this report on attendance in rural and coastal communities (esp pages 30-35): www.onecornwall.co.uk/_site/data/p...

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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 04/01/2025

Was not particularly interested in seeing Wicked, and then my wife gave it a Media Studies framing and said it’s actually about how a gullible and ill-informed public is easy to manipulate with misinformation and I was all in, great movie, 10/10 so far.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

The comments under this week's newsletter, particularly from people who changed their career in their 40s, are extremely lovely. In short: it's not too late. You can still do it iandunt.substack.com/p/happy-new-...

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Happy New Year: Now sort your fucking life out

It'll keep on pissing itself away until you set goals.

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Andy Wolfe @andywolfe.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

It was great to publish ‘Flourishing Together’ in Nov 24 with @leoracruddas.bsky.social @cstvoice.bsky.social 🙌 So excited to put into practice in 2025 with launch of Flourishing Leaders and Teachers Programmes with trusts across 🇬🇧 and international collaborations in 🇺🇸 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇿🇦 🇳🇱 🇩🇪 🇳🇿 and many more…🙏

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Kathryn Morgan @kathrynmorgan.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

New year, same fave view - Heaven on Earth! #Rhossili #Gower

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Toby Greany @tobygreany.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Completing the survey could be just the opportunity you need to reflect on your leadership journey as you think about 2025! Happy New Year to one and all!

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Kathryn Morgan @kathrynmorgan.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

A Crisis of Belonging: “Although most of us know what it feels like to be excluded or question our belonging, Cohen says we don't do the greatest job of recognizing that feeling when it happens to others.” This was really interesting to listen to and read: www.gse.harvard.edu/ideas/edcast...

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scottinghatt.bsky.social @scottinghatt.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

*Adaptive expertise* is a woolly concept. But here’s three key quotes I’ve picked out that tell us something useful for teaching...

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Sam Gibbs @samgibbs.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

It’s entirely possible to deliver the ECF in-house and with contextual relevance - and the DfE should trust schools to do just that, if that is their preference.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Public library energy is the best energy. Like here is all the knowledge we could find, it's been meticulously organized and vetted and it will cost you nothing today, welcome to the absolute pinnacle of human civic evolution, feel free to pull up any bean bag chair you like

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Daniel Muijs @danielmuijs.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

This is really interesting. A nuanced view of the exclusions issue, a way forward in a debate that is often presented as a binary, when it isn’t.

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Kathryn Morgan @kathrynmorgan.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

“I used to use the terms stress and overwhelm interchangeably, but that does not serve us well. The growing field of neurolinguistics is teaching us that language doesn’t just communicate emotion, it shapes how and what we’re feeling.” brenebrown.com/articles/202...

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Matilda Martin @matildamartin.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

The Government has "much more to do" to tackle misogyny in schools, the minister for early education says Stephen Morgan tells @thehousemag.bsky.social the "escalatory nature" of misogyny means "education plays a crucial role" in challenging it early on www.politicshome.com/news/article...

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There's 'Much More To Do' To Combat Misogyny In Schools, Says Minister

The Government has 'much more to do' to tackle misogyny in schools, the minister for early education has said.

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

At the end of the day, don’t we all just want a bookshelf with a rolling ladder?

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Gráinne Hallahan @heymrshallahan.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

“Its analysis shows that there are 2,983 isolated primaries and 510 isolated secondary schools.” This piece gets at the issues facing schools trying to recruit leaders. Geography is part of the problem - but also the lack of teachers wanting to move into leadership. www.tes.com/magazine/new...

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3,500 schools ‘too isolated’ to attract top leaders

School leaders tend to operate in connected ‘communities’ - leaving thousands of schools missing out on leadership expertise, research warns

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

All I want is a cottage in the Scottish Highlands, a raging snowstorm, and Agatha Christie novel, a crackling fire, a kettle on the stove, and a basket of emotional support pastries.

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Kathryn Morgan @kathrynmorgan.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Moody and misty but still alluring.

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