The Engine Room: Leading experienced colleagues in your new team
The Engine Room is a series of blogposts on Middle Leadership. The name comes from the idea that school middle leadership is the ‘engine room’ of the school, without which schools would not function effectively. Middle Leadership is challenging, and often teachers are thrown into it, without the support and guidance they need. The purpose…
The Engine Room: Get yourself a mentor!
The Engine Room is a series of blogposts on Middle Leadership. The name comes from the idea that school middle leadership is the ‘engine room’ of the school, without which schools would not function effectively. Middle Leadership is challenging, and often teachers are thrown into it, without the support and guidance they need. The purpose…
Developing a culture of responsive teaching by embedding the use of mini-whiteboards in lessons
Rationale: Ever since Dylan William and Paul Black opened our eyes to the power of classroom assessment in 1998, we have seen teachers and educational researchers advocate for the use of formative assessment in lessons. The research over the last 20+ years has shown that formative assessment has a huge, beneficial impact on students’ learning.…
building steam with a grain of salt 