Matt's Ink Blog

Raising Boy’s Achievment

This is a summary of a four-year project (2000-2004), undertaken at the University of Cambridge, focussing on the gender gap in achievement. Boys’ underachievement is currently of international concern, and has been a high...

Teach Like A Champion: Classroom Culture

Teach Like A Champion whilst being a little American is a superb practical book about effective teaching. Lemov concentrates on the quality of teaching, rather than teachers, and forensically explains how  a teacher can...

Keys to Leadership

Treat staff as a whole (all levels treated same). For example always send the youngest member of the admin team down to meet and greet people being interviewed Structure not hierarchy Clear structures needed...

Finance and Budget

Went on an excellent training course. This discussed how to stay out of jail as a head… Key ideas and jargon: Key is that finance should be open and transparent, accessible to everyone e.g....