Pop by and say hello if you're at the Schools and Academies Show in London tomorrow - I'll be on Stand K43 representing Leadership Edge - Coaching In Schools #SSASHOW Schools & Academies Show

Headlines on Guardian app. Nostradamus predicted both of these events. #endofdays

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Communication- let’s talk about it! 🗣️

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“Schools are using research to try to improve children’s learning – but it’s not working” Problematic when research used as ‘blueprint’ but impactful when used as food for context-driven professional inquiry. Embrace complexity. theconversation.com/schools-are-us…

A pleasure to work with the team at the beautiful Pathways World School in India, supporting them to build a coaching culture which benefits students and staff alike.

Thank you. It was a pleasure and privilege to meet and work alongside you and your colleagues in your beautiful school.

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Duncan Partridge, Leadership Coach, Trainer and Owner of Educe Mentoring & Coaching and #Edruptorof2023 , explains how he seeks diversity in the content he shares and accounts he follows on social media as a method of expanding his knowledge.

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Great thread. Agree fully that the control pendulum has swung too strongly one way. This thread maps out how balance could be regained through thoughtful attention to developing teacher agency.

The best definition of trust in school settings I have seen. The importance of a leader's reliability and competence in the engendering of trust is often overlooked. Leaders need to demonstrably be 'good at their job', as well as 'nice people', in order to create real trust.

Effective school leaders do these things. To what extent are you doing them?

Effective school leaders to these things. To what extent are you doing them?

Exciting news! 📣 Professor John Jerrim's full paper 'The link between teacher buy-in and intentions to continue working in their current school' has now been published and uses The Engagement Platform (TEP) data, you can read the full report here: buff.ly/3Soowwp.

A coaching approach requires active listening. This is not easy to do. Here are a few strategies that may help in scaffolding active listening. Taken from my book, Coaching for Educators.

Thanks @samlgibbs1 & Haili Hughes - hope it’s useful!

Kim Scott's Radical Candour model is helpful when thinking about how feedback is given in schools. Most educators are fundamentally nice people, leading to cultures of ruinous empathy. Caring personally & challenging directly are not mutually exclusive. Leaders need to model this

Emma Turner FCCT It may be useful to think of the two (training & implementation) in terms of the image below. Training aims to increase your schema — conceptual content. Implementation involves mental models — how to put the concepts into action. Operational. It relies on experience.

Rescuing growth mindset from the scrapheap of educational theory? A key to facilitating shift from fixed to growth mindset is how challenge is pitched in the classroom. Bjork's concept of 'desirable difficulty' is key here.