Thread by @TomRees_77

A flurry of posts this week relating to school leadership. Here's a short round-up thread if, like me, you haven't got around to reading them all yet.

1⃣ First up, here's @mfordhamhistory announcing his return to blogging & a focus on leadership.

(For some of us, this is like when Gandalf returns at The Battle of Helm's Deep.)

Why is England’s education revolution faltering?

clioetcetera.com/2020/02/04/why… via @mfordhamhistory

2⃣ 'It is expertise that produces results, not stylistic flourish. We follow leaders who know their stuff, not those that strut their stuff.'

@head_teach in his second of two posts on school leadership expertise on the @Ambition_Inst blog.

ambition.org.uk/blog/school-le…

3⃣ Next up, @nmgilbride makes the case for 'Powerful Knowledge' that school leaders need and, in typically thoughtful and informed style, discusses theories and knowledge that could be included in educational leadership training.

neilgilbride.com/2020/02/01/pow…

4⃣ @mfordhamhistory again; this time on the importance of subject leadership:

'a department where the curriculum leader put their subject first, cultivated teacher expertise & had the freedom to set their own standards of excellence & strive for these.

clioetcetera.com/2020/02/07/the…

5⃣ Last, but (obviously) not least, here's @matthewhood's @tes blog highlighting the tension between Academy curricular freedoms and the current @Ofstednews practice of using the National Curriculum as the standard for inspection under the new framework.

tes.com/news/why-natio…