Have found journal keeping one of the most useful activities I've partaken in as a leader. Can imagine it would help many others too. Kat Howard Abby Morris Caroline Spalding oliver caviglioli Kathryn Morgan Lekha Sharma FCCT Joe Kirby

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🎃Our October newsletter is now live!🎃 Lots of new tricks, treats, resources and opportunities to share with our wonderful members -- check your registered inbox or access through the Members' Area online: walkthrus.co.uk

Exciting news! Ella Roberts is joining our conference as a speaker. As the Director of TKAT's Learning and Development Network, Ella is committed to continuous growth, empowering colleagues to learn, innovate, & share knowledge. Get your tickets now at shorturl.at/boGN7

I think this is one of the coolest pictures I’ve seen of ‘Building Culture’, quite literally, in the WILD on safari! 🦓 Thank you to my lovely Avanti colleague who sent this across and put a huge smile on my face 💕 @JohnCattEd oliver caviglioli

Really clear principles around effective CPD

Thank you Entrepreneur and @caitybegg for the feature in today’s article “35 Best Gifts for New Entrepreneurs This Holiday Season. I agree -- #RightKindOfWrong is a wonderful stocking stuffer! 🎁📕 Read here: bit.ly/3QeP0hv

It’s getting pretty cold. The Warm Welcome campaign lists warm spaces in local communities. “Turning poverty and isolation into warmth and local connection.” warmwelcome.uk Share this message to try and make sure nobody is cold this winter.

Colleagues from our family of schools have been taking part in a SW100 study tour visit to other schools in London this week. We can’t wait to hear all about their visits and new ideas!

Harvard research finds that early career teachers learn best through modelling (watching good teaching) and rehearsal (repeated practice with feedback) 👇

"Situating feedback within a well-developed coaching process can make all the difference." Some of the best content I've read on feedback has come from Nimish Lad blogs and talks on communication (signposted by @overpractised )and Lekha Sharma FCCT book on culture. Read more below

When Lekha talks, we should all listen. Having heard leaders from this trust talk before, read articles they have written, and spoken to leaders in some of their schools, they really do aim to do things the right way. Jealous that you got to see that today, Lekha.

Many people shy away from this important conversation. So important that the debate around the best ways of supporting subject leadership is had, rather than barriers being thrown up, and an imprudent n situation being ignored. Thank you for sharing, Lekha. BRAVO

This promises to be an exciting event in a town full of exciting teachers and leaders!

Generous offer 😇 Brilliant set of books 📚

Two new from us in your #EduWeeklyRoundUp. #BOTW to Alex Quigley (despite being couple of weeks ago) and also in: Adam Boxer Blake Harvard Julian Grenier CBE Claire Stoneman Stella Jones Norfolk Research School Greenshaw Research classteaching.wordpress.com/2024/11/08/wee…

🗣️ Teachers feel 'disempowered and deprofessionalised by overstipulation and the challenge to cover content' in the curriculum, Professor Becky Francis has said as she outlined emerging themes from her review roadshows so far buff.ly/4hGtijm

‘The research evidence showed that knowledge, practice and direct instruction were more likely to lead to success than discovery and project-based learning.’ Making Good Progress?: The future of Assessment for Learning - Daisy Christodoulou daisychristodoulou.com/2017/01/making…

Getting the impression that it’s still too common for knowledge to be equated with ‘rote’ - knowledge held in the mind as like a bucket of items. It’s more helpful to think of knowledge held in the mind as an interconnected web or schema.

From ‘Ithaka’ by C. P. Cavafy. Gorgeous. poetryfoundation.org/poems/51296/it…