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Professional Development

22 October, 2025

From CPD to Collective Growth: Leading Professional Learning at Scale

These are my notes and reflections from an early morning webinar hosted by the Chartered College of Teaching on Leading Professional Learning at Scale. It was one of those sessions…

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Leadership & Coaching

26 September, 2025

From Autonomy to Agency: The Missing Piece in School Leadership

Teachers have long aspired to autonomy as the hallmark of professional respect. Give us teachers autonomy, the argument goes, and we will flourish: freed from prescription, released from bureaucracy, and…

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Professional Development

2 September, 2025

Five Things Every School Can Do to Improve: Reflections from the Frontline

Each August, as another exam season comes to an end, I look to celebrate the wins and study the losses. I try to resist the temptation to sit back in…

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Leadership & Coaching

8 June, 2025

The Leadership Compass: Developing Capacity From Within

This post is a lightly edited transcript of my presentation at ResearchED Bournemouth on Saturday 7 June. In it, I explore how we can grow leadership capacity in schools, not…

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Professional Development

5 June, 2025

From Buzzword to Best Practice: The Case for Instructional Coaching

Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending a session with Professor Haili Hughes on instructional coaching at the Bryanston Education Summit. Hughes struck an illuminating balance between scholarship and grounded…

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Professional Development

19 April, 2025

What your one-to-ones might be telling you

In my recent post, From Oversight to Insight, I made the case that line-management conversations, when thoughtfully led, can be quietly transformative. They’re not just accountability checkpoints, they’re also opportunities to…

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