Thinking
The latest thinking from our team of experts and our community of frontline educators.
-
Blog article
The school leader: using mental models effectively
In the first of two posts on how school leaders draw on their expertise to solve educational problems, headteacher and author, Matthew Evans, considers the mental models which guide expert decision making.
-
Blog article
Persistent problems: Finding the purpose for expert school leadership
Jen Barker and Tom Rees discuss the use of ‘persistent problems’ as the purpose for school leaders’ work.
-
Blog article
The challenge of changing behaviours
Nick Rose and Ben White explore some of the challenges of helping educators to successfully change their behaviour through professional development, and how research might help us overcome them.
-
Blog article
Avoiding 'lethal mutations'
Good ideas – even when they are well-rooted in evidence-based research – can be implemented in ways which render them no longer effective or even counter productive. How can we avoid these lethal mutations?
-
Blog article
Surviving and thriving as an NQT
Fitting everything in is tough, and that goes for everyone, whether you’re new to a job or you’ve been in it for years. But what if we thought harder about our time management and took a deliberate approach to the waking day, not just the working day?
