Welcome to the new edition of Trust. With the ever present backdrop of some of the key challenges facing the sector, not least the issue of teacher recruitment and retention, this edition brings together a number of different strands of current thinking about the leadership of schools and trusts.
Read moreIn the last edition of Trust, I wrote about school trusts as an insurgent mission. This is a bold mission, requiring spikiness and limitless horizons....
Read moreIn Robert MacFarlane’s ‘Mountain of the Minds’, he tells the story of cartography through the ages. MacFarlane describes how explorers were able...
Read moreDespite all the turbulence around us with the election, Brexit, new Ofsted framework, education funding and so on, as we start the new year one issue remains...
Read moreOne of the most important challenges facing any school leader is deciding how best to create working conditions that maximise staff motivation to perform...
Read moreSince the publication of Making Data Work (the DfE Workload Advisory Group’s report on data use and workload) I have been invited in to explore workload...
Read moreSchool trusts are facing unprecedented reputational challenges in a post truth world. Whilst the requirement for schools to have an online presence is...
Read moreTrust boards discover they have a leadership vacancy in one of two ways. But whether planned or unexpected, it’s a supremely valuable moment, where the...
Read more"Good leaders change organisations; great leaders change people.” (Hoerr, 2005)
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