Professor Emerita Mary M. Kennedy, who sadly died last year, has had a huge impact on my understanding of teaching, research and policy.

I’ve been revisiting her work for a project and thought I’d share some of her gems (18), which are open access 🔓

Strap yourself in…🤓 1. The Problem of Improving Teacher Quality While Balancing Supply and Demand

-MARY M. KENNEDY (1992)

🔓 researchgate.net/publication/24…

Looking forward to presenting at #rED22 with fellow PD nerd @SaysMiss.

Thread below contains 14 links to PD papers we refer to because no-one wants to feel like this:

“I hope I die during an in-service session because the transition between life and death would be so subtle.”🫣 1. malit.org.uk/wp-content/upl…

🧵If you’re looking for some non-edu listening over the summer then here’s an eclectic list of podcasts I’ve enjoyed.
1. Quiet leadership
2. People pleasing
3. Imposter syndrome
4. Dealing with success
5. Rest
6. Habits
7. Expectation
8. Argument
9. Sleep
10. Working from home 1️⃣ @josbuttler: How quiet leadership can conquer the world @LiquidThinker @mrjakehumphrey

This episode explores the underrated power of the introvert, learning from rejection and failures, and how journaling how journaling can transform your mindset.

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e12…

🧵below with 8 @CharteredColl Impact Journal gems
1. Culture of improvement
2. Support for ECTs
3. Research-based model for prof learning
4. Talent pathways
5. Retention of teacher trainees
6. Career progression in mid-career teachers
7. Journal clubs
8. Research engagement 1. "Learning does not only happen in formal training or in structured processes. The amount of learning that takes place depends significantly on a teacher’s working conditions..." @informed_edu @mcunners @bethanhindley
my.chartered.college/impact_article…

Effective Professional Development (PD)

I've read/listened to/ watched a variety of great things on effective PD to better understand design, selection, implementation and working conditions.

🧵20 (recent-ish) collated links 🔗below - all in one place and highly recommend🤓 1. A culture of improvement: reviewing the research on teacher working conditions @TeacherDevTrust tdtrust.org/coi/

It feels like a lifetime ago that we started designing the new TDT NPQ Suite. So, it is *very* exciting to finally kick off our National Webinars with our first cohorts 🥳

🔗In celebration, here's 40 links to school leadership related reading materials that I recommend 🤓

🧵👇 What is school leadership and how can we develop it? @Barker_J & @TomRees_77
1. ambition.org.uk/blog/2020-new-…
2. ambition.org.uk/blog/persisten…
3. ambition.org.uk/blog/complexit…
4. ambition.org.uk/blog/expertise…
5. ambition.org.uk/blog/from-the-…
6. ambition.org.uk/blog/organisin…

In another ace lecture on people and change with @nmgilbride, we discussed Paul Bloom’s Against Empathy and considered the limitations of empathy as a guide to moral reasoning. I’ve been reading up on Bloom’s Rational Compassion.

It’s fascinating stuff-GEEKY thread below👇🏻

1/ Empathy induces us to identify with a situ of a single person, referred to as shoe-shifting. However, we can’t shoe-shift for multiple people so we tend to see the world from the perspective of one person. This will be biased and personal to our own personal perspective.

2/

Thoroughly enjoyed digging about in Leadership for Learning: A Review of School L’ship Literature. aitsl.edu.au/docs/default-s…
Particularly interested in the 10 criteria for l’ship learning design.

These are listed in the thread below👇🏻 Which ones require more attention?🤔 #SLTchat 1. Philosophically and theoretically attuned to individual needs and system requirements.

2. Goal oriented, with primacy given to the dual aims of improvement in student learning and achievement,
and school improvement.

@dnleslie @EnserMark @greeborunner @PearceMrs @informed_edu I'm going to respond with curated resources for the TDT domains...
1. Culture and Wellbeing
2. Focus
3. Needs Analysis & Evaluation
4. Internal Support & Challenge
5. Use of Expert Knowledge
6. Processes & Structures for CPD
7. Use of Research & Evidence

Hold onto your hat... @dnleslie @EnserMark @greeborunner @PearceMrs @informed_edu 1. Culture and Wellbeing
>impact.chartered.college/article/creati…
>impact.chartered.college/article/cultur…
>impact.chartered.college/article/achiev…
>saysmiss.wordpress.com/2021/03/11/cpd…
>tdtrust.org/2021/02/24/our…

@rjmcdonald24 @meredithfox22 @10_whiteoak @greeborunner @EdCPDChat @PearceMrs 1. Kat’s four-part CPD blog series:

https://twitter.com/saysmiss/status/1380804160749178880?s=21

2. Tom’s blogs: teacherhead.com/2021/01/28/tim… and teacherhead.com/2020/08/21/tea… (plus more).
3. Pete’s blog-teacher expertise, teacher knowledge... curriculumteamleader.wordpress.com
4. David’s Impact article impact.chartered.college/article/cultur… @rjmcdonald24 @meredithfox22 @10_whiteoak @greeborunner @EdCPDChat @PearceMrs 5. Harry’s blog improvingteaching.co.uk/2020/06/01/wha…
6. Shaun’s blog classteaching.wordpress.com/about/
7. Andy’s rEDBrum slides

https://twitter.com/brown_andrew86/status/1237416542364721152?s=21

8. Jen’s post

https://twitter.com/barker_j/status/1332381486394322946?s=21

9. Mine and Vivienne’s piece impact.chartered.college/article/achiev…
10. TDT working paper tdtrust.org/2021/02/24/our…

5 things school leaders should know about complexity @head_teach
1️⃣ The control trap-human error arises from complexity. Our response is to over-complicate. If we look beyond the error, we can learn the intricate worlds of practice & understand how to improve it #BrewEdBrum 2️⃣ Naive Interventions
Iatrogenic effect-something we do whilst trying to be helpful but it’s unhelpful. We solve problems that we’ve created. We value the doing rather than avoiding making complexity worse. Great things happen when leaders aren’t around #BrewEdBrum