Do We Talk Too Much? “How to Speak More Strategically”
Speaking more by speaking less. School leaders, like clergy, have a real tendency to speak, a lot. This can be problematic for several reasons: It places the focus on us rather than on others...
Matt's Ink Blog
Tracking Behaviour
This is a logging form that I used to start to track behaviour issues. It allows easy tracking of what activities were taking place. Also a thinking plan that students if ejected from a...
Subject Leaders
The core role of the subject leader is to provide professional leadership and management for a subject to secure high quality teaching, effective use of resources and improved standards of learning and achievement...
Top Ten Requirements of Good Teaching
Professor Richard Leblanc The Top Ten Requirements of Good Teaching 1. Good teaching is as much about passion as it is about reason. It’s about not only motivating students to learn, but teaching them...
Learning Walk Proforma
Introduced a new learning walk pro forma. Includes all key features of an outstanding lesson.
Literacy: Crib Sheet for Staff
One of the challenges of genuinely embedding literacy across the school is to make it easy. I created this as a basic guide it is based on Ofsted guidance. It was produced on A5...
Departmental Literacy Evaluation
A quick evaluation for departments takes about 5 minutes and includes section for teachers to make improvements. (This is based on an original that I can’t source)
Literacy Plan
Despite extensive googling I did not find a policy that I liked. I produced this for my current school. It is in two halves: Interventions for children with significant literacy issues Classroom practices to...
Literacy
Literacy is the foundation of everything that we do. Without it children cannot access the curriculum and, more importantly, they will be seriously limited in their options when leaving school. It is my belief...
First 90 days – key ideas
Introduction The key idea of this book is that the actions you take during your first three months in a will determine whether you succeed or fail. If you fail to build momentum during...
