Clearly we’re going for Genny Lec…

"you don’t walk around as a leader feeling like you are doing a great job, as you are regularly dealing with really complex things that make you feel the opposite" Really personal, honest, How I Lead from Matt Hood that will chime with many ⬇️ tes.com/magazine/leade…

.Matt Hood really is a very good egg and a very good boss. He thinks a lot about the type of leader he wants to be - and it shows. Lovely piece on his approach in Tes magazine 👇

🙏 As the term ends, a huge thanks to all teachers ☀️ Indulge me as I also big up the work of our Oak National Academy partnership. They’ve released brilliant, new resources for 5,397 (and counting!) lessons to support teachers’ workload and expertise. Just a couple of highlights…🧵

Amazing effort from a wonderful team -enjoy a well deserved summer break 😎

.Oak National Academy has developed its new AI tool with the aim of ensuring that teachers can create lesson plans without having to worry about the safety or accuracy of content, writes John Roberts tes.com/magazine/analy…

Our beta AI lesson assistant launches today. I've been lucky to see just how much thought, educational expertise and testing with teachers has gone into this. All to create an AI tool that keeps the teacher in charge while genuinely lightening the load. Take a look 👇

One of our missions at Oak National Academy is to give teachers their Sunday nights back. To help, today we launch Aila, our AI-powered lesson assistant. Our aim has been to develop a product that keeps teachers in control of planning, whilst lightening their load 🧵on what we've done

On Tuesday we hosted a sneak preview event to show some of the education community just what Aila can do. It was a pleasure to have Pepe Di’Iasio from  ASCL join us for an excellent panel discussion.

A couple of great sessions by the team at researchED tomorrow #rEd24

We've released a whole set of new curriculum plans today. At the heart of a broad and rigorous offer, we're putting focus on: 🎨 Modern, contemporary artists to inspire creativity 🎾 New sports, from parkour to pickleball, to get kids active 💻 Online safety and digital skills

.Oak National Academy chief Matt Hood explains why new data on the use of its resources shows that debates on teacher autonomy need to be more nuanced tes.com/magazine/analy…

⚡Don’t just take it from us.  Across the 2023/2024 academic year, here’s how teachers found using our resources helped them - from time saved to workload management to improved wellbeing, all of which leave teachers free to spend more time with pupils!  💫1 in 3 teachers use

🙌 Giving teachers their Sunday nights back… Great to see Aila, our AI lesson assistant, leading the news on how we can support teachers to save time and have a more manageable workload, explained below by Pat McFadden.  👀 Want to know more? Join the 1,000+ teachers signed

It was fantastic to host Pat McFadden and Catherine McKinnell MP at the brilliant Charter School Bermondsey this morning. Teachers were really positive about how Oak National Academy's Aila can free them up to have more time with pupils and personalise their support.

After 5 years, today marks my final week leading Oak National Academy. I’m so glad to close this chapter with the brilliant news that our resources are now live in prisons. Tes has kindly let me reflect (ok, indulge) on my time. A quick summary below…🧵 tes.com/magazine/analy…