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Sep 4, 2021 13 tweets 7 min read Read on X
Here’s a summary of my @researchED1 presentation this morning.

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Putting children first is misunderstood.

First / ultimate are near antonyms.

The ends to not necessarily resemble the means.

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Key point 1.

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Components of climate: how it feels to work in this school.

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Kraft and Papay found that teachers in more supportive professional environments improved more over time than those in less supportive environments.

They named 6 features of a strong professional environment.

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Leaders should therefore prioritise working conditions in order to enable teachers to positively affect children’s learning.

Key point 2.

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Models of leadership with knowledge at the heart.

A positive staff climate, and ultimately outcomes for children, are dependent on the extent of leaders’ knowledge.

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Surely experience and wisdom are more important than *just* knowledge?

Experience and wisdom *are* knowledge.

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Successful leadership practices are dependent on extensive domain knowledge - the domain of our own school context.

Contextual factors are interdependent and they change.

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Knowing our context inside out can help us to understand and influence it.

Bias is an important consideration. How we treat colleagues determines the extent that they place trust and feel belonging.

Knowing things is only useful if leaders do something with it.

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How can we become more expert?

Key point 3 - by deliberately seeking out knowledge.

Debrief decision making.

Get to know *why* colleagues behave as they do.

Seek feedback and reflect.

11/12
Key points:

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Sep 24, 2023
A 🧵 on school policies…

1/14
What do we actually need policies for?

Firstly there are statutory policies (for England):



2/14gov.uk/government/pub…
Looking down this list, it’s clear what they have in common. Wherever we need fairness, equality, or clear standards for safety, there’s a policy.

3/14
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May 12, 2023
School and MAT leaders: What’s your school improvement model?

How do you go about improving your school?

Here’s a model and a thread explaining it…

🧵

1/11 Image
First some assumptions about school leadership.

▪️Schools are complex
▪️Improvement is more about problem solving than applying a ‘formula’
▪️Problem solving requires expertise
▪️(Groups of) schools therefore need to be good at building and sharing knowledge

2/11
That last point is critical not just for the chain of reasoning above but because there can be no improvement to children’s outcomes without the individual adults, teams and the organisation as a whole learning more, better and faster.

3/11
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Feb 15, 2023
Self evaluation and strategic leadership

An emerging idea on integrating the two into a better organised mental model of school leadership

Feedback please, Twitter!

🧵

1/22
I’m never satisfied with the whole SEF / school development plan process.

I think that we should prioritise structuring our thinking over filling in proformas:

mrnickhart.wordpress.com/2022/09/23/sef…

2/22
So I’m proposing a structure of the following:

▪️Facts
▪️Assumptions
▪️Maps
▪️Priorities
▪️Early indicators

Let’s take each one in turn…

3/22
Read 22 tweets
Feb 13, 2023
Is teaching and school leadership more difficult now than pre-pandemic or pre-2018 and the new EIF?

Some thoughts on complexity and sense making.
The feeling from talking to teachers is that it is more difficult now.

But why?

My hypothesis is that we are suffering from cognitive overload in schools at the moment.

What is contributing to the cognitive overload?
Many say there is a boom in special and additional educational needs.

Less funding.

A recruitment crisis.

Increased expectations on teachers and leaders from the new EIF.

A legacy of increased absence due to illness.

What else? Please share…
Read 15 tweets
Nov 18, 2022
Great session with @LouiseStoll @CEL_IOE on educational setting as learning organisations.

▪️The concept of school leaders and teachers as knowledge workers who need to find / create knowledge
▪️Schools need to learn fast because of complexity

🧵
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What makes a school a learning organisation?

oecd.org/education/scho…

1️⃣ A vision centred on student learning

2️⃣ Creating and supporting continuous learning opportunities (leaders are designers of organisational learning)

3️⃣ Team learning / collaboration

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4️⃣ A culture of inquiry / innovation / exploration

5️⃣ Systems for collecting / exchanging knowledge and learning

6️⃣ Learning from and with the external environment

7️⃣ Modelling and growing learning leadership

3/10
Read 10 tweets
Nov 18, 2022
Pulling together some thoughts on professional development…

1️⃣ What do teachers need to get better at?
2️⃣ What conditions are necessary for teachers to learn?
3️⃣ What mechanisms and forms can we use?

🧵
1/13
1️⃣ What do teachers need to get better at?

While we often describe the actions that we want teachers to do (better), in some cases it may be an underlying belief that needs to shift because actions are sustained by beliefs.

mrnickhart.wordpress.com/2021/11/26/cpd…

2/13
When deciding what teachers should work on, we need to understand the nature of expertise.

3/13
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