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Is the solution to reducing workload in your head, or in your headteacher?

Data from Teacher Tapp

Teachers feel like they are working longer hours than ever before… we know this because at Teacher Tapp we check. …
Karen Wespieser MBE

Leading into the future

5 takeaways on bold and innovative leadership

A couple of weeks ago, we brought together over 50 educational leaders to discuss how leadership can connect our present to our ideals for the future of education in the UK. …
Cintia Shiratori

We need a bit more poetry as we emerge from Covid – and a bit less prose

Now is the time to rekindle our sense of vision, strategy and purpose

‘You campaign in poetry and govern in prose’. That was the phrase that we often quoted from American politician Mario Cuomo, when we were finding it hard going in government. …
Peter Smith

I’m OK, you’re OK – Developing a developing a culture of positive staff wellbeing

My reflections

Wellbeing has always been on the agenda in my setting, for both staff and students, and I always felt we were a healthy working environment for the majority of staff. …
Meg Drummond

Starting something special in Suffolk

A Big Team Adventure!

Yesterday marked the start of something special. I shadowed and supported Peter Hyman, Co-Director of Big Education delivering the first session of the Big Team Adventure with two Suffolk schools. …
Nadia Hewstone

Crashing Back to Accountability

Is there another way?

During the pandemic, one of the notable experiences for teachers and leaders was the huge shift in dynamics around quality assurance and monitoring of work. Many experienced the need for significantly higher levels of tr…
Liz Robinson

Resilience: How Design Thinking Can Help

Using an experimental ideology to upskill our students in one of the most crucial capabilities.

So how can Design Thinking help schools support the resilience upskilling of their students?…
Iona Chamberlain-Clark

The power of reflection

Time to acknowledge and plan

I think we can all agree that this has been an era like no other. Leaders have been exposed to, and stepped up into situations we could not have imagined….
Liz Robinson

Facing up to privilege

A personal view of confronting the advantages you’ve had and sharing this across the school community

The past few weeks have been a time when I’ve been doing a huge amount of thinking and taking action on a lot of things relating to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion….
Dan Colquhoun

My journey into Diversity, Equity and Inclusion…

A Case for Luminary Leadership

As a rookie member of Big Education’s ground-breaking leadership programme – Big Leadership Adventure – I have been exposed to a wealth and breadth of experiences,…
Laura Çiftçi

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