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The Enquiring Head Teacher…
This blog will use an auto ethnographic approach to record my journey of becoming and being a head teacher in Scotland in the early decades of the twenty-first century.
Always curious, always asking questions and always enquiring.
First post.. coming soon
Stolen Snatches
I recently read Johann Hari’s excellent book on Stolen Focus. I realised that as a HT my clarity of thinking is regularly impeded by a lack of focus. Is it stolen? I think so. We are required to be strategic and yet have to have solutions to staff shortages or pupil behaviour at the drop…
What if..?
A key part of being an educator in contemporary Scotland is about always asking questions to improve. How Good Is our School? 4 (Education Scotland, 2015) is a book of questions. Any self-evaluation is predicated on questions. As an enquiring HT I also love asking questions. It’s what I’m good at. However, sometimes my questions…
Being a headteacher is a lot like… crochet
Been thinking about finding something that will take me off thinking too much about school, leadership and masters level learning. I decided that crochet could be for me. My mum has been crocheting since I was 7… four decades of watching her would clearly make me an expert.. right? Actually no!A lot like leadership, crochet…
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