Welcome to the Success in Education blog

Welcome to my new blog. With the launch of Success In Education I have decided to combine my two current blogs into one and publish all new posts through this blog. Please feel free to dip in to the other blogs, there is plenty to read and think about and I hope you find something of interest there and here.
In this blog I will write about a range of issues but mostly those that concern Success in Education, namely:

leadership (especially "personality centred leadership"),
emotional well-being of teachers and leaders,
values-focused schools,
outstanding teaching, outstanding learning.

Thank you for reading.

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The 5Ps - planning lessons for outstanding teaching and learning

The ultimate purpose of any school leader, at any level, is to ensure that the pupils receive teaching of the highest quality. Some schools choose to be highly prescriptive about lesson planning but I believe that this makes teaching little more than a technical undertaking and not the imaginative, creative and exciting experience it ought to be for teachers and learners alike. Rather than providing a rigid proforma that must be followed I prefer giving teachers a framework within which they can create lessons. Starting with a sterile lesson plan sheet produces linear lessons where component B is considered after the construction of component A and so on through to the end of the lesson. The planning is linear and often the starter is set in stone by the time the main activities are planned. This can be avoided if the whole lesson is considered before a lesson plan is ever constructed. A couple of years ago I introduced an approach I called the 5Ps. This suggested that before fo

Manage your time, ease your stress

Y our time is your most precious resource. I am sure that with your range of commitments at work that it is limited and that you want to be as productive as you can be, but how successful are you? If you are a middle leader the chances are you are juggling your leadership responsibilities with a sizeable teaching load, if you are a senior leader it is likely that you have a broad range of diverse responsibilities and tasks that fill your days; whatever your level of leadership managing your time is crucial to increasing your productivity and maintaining your well-being. Make lists: I have always made lists, ensuring that anything I had to do was written down so as to remind me to do it. However lists can be improved with additional information especially about when you are going to do the task. This is linked to prioritisation; make sure you know which tasks need doing first and when they need doing by. My own lists would contain deadlines and I would prioritise tasks with

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