Are you an Assistant Head? Or do you know one? I'm conducting a 15 min survey about workload from the perspective of secondary school assistant heads in England and how it impacts upon teacher retention and wellbeing. More info: tinyurl.com/3ze6mpbn #teacherworkload #SLT #AHT

Are you a secondary Assistant Head? Complete a 15 mins survey about leadership, teacher workload and wellbeing to share ideas with leaders and the research community! tinyurl.com/3ze6mpbn Kat Howard PiXL Teacher Tapp @sltchat #NewToSLTChat Kat Howard Dr Jill Berry

#NewToSLTChat Where schools effectively use data there’s a really clearly established purpose as to what the data is for and how it will be used to inform teaching and learning and that cycle is tightly connected. When it’s overdone, there’s analysis with no actionable follow through.

A short blog on attention wp.me/paRQbL-az

AI can give you endless ideas. I haven't had a blank page in months. Here are my 5 brainstorming methods for getting ideas using AI:

ChatGPT-4 is awesome, but cost $20/month. Here are 5 ways you can use it for free:

I am very pleased to be part of a research project today on teacher workload by the brilliant Joel Arda. I can't wait to see the findings in his write-up. As we found out today, we have similar roles in education.

The Little Book of #GenerativeAI prompts for teachers Here it is, a compilation of my recent one-pagers with prompts for different subjects across the curriculum, global in outlook with helpful pointers for UK curricula too. The book includes prompts for most subjects and

🧵 New teachers! Prepare for teaching this term by knowing: ▪️Retrieval isn’t repetitive if you are a novice- as long as it’s useful, of course ▪️explanations are at their most beautiful without waffle - and that’s hard when you’re a subject expert

Principles for planning, from Department for Education school workload reduction toolkit: gov.uk/guidance/schoo…

Joel Arda Here is a good article on emotional intelligence: edweek.org/leadership/sch…

One of the most potent ingredients of effective professional development (PD) is 'modelling'. What modelling is and 3 ways to do it well: ↓

Alongside modelling, 'rehearsal' is one of the most essential ingredients of effective professional development (PD). 3 ways to do it well: ↓

Just read the new The Sutton Trust report on policy reforms over the last few decades and this one graph really jumps out at me. This situation seems unsustainable. Sam Freedman writes: "these issues are the major reason for the pressure on SEND funding, which is causing serious issues

I was recently asked for my views on workload reduction approaches, so here’s a mini 🧵 with some ideas….

📋 Schools are set to be judged on a sliding scale from ‘exemplary’ to ‘causing concern’ against 10 areas including teaching, achievement, inclusion and preparation for next steps, proposals for new report cards shared with leaders this week reveal schoolsweek.co.uk/ofsted-propose…

16 must-know edu-research papers from the last 16 weeks: (all open source 🔓) ↓