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Marking is an act of folly

Nov 30, 2016 | Category: leadership

Contrary to popular belief, marking and feedback are not the same thing. Clearly they're connected - and, ideally most marking has the intention of giving feedback - but the process of marking or givi...

#marking #feedback #EEF

7 habits of genuinely expert teachers

Mar 09, 2016 | Category: leadership

Science is not 'organized common sense'; at its most exciting, it reformulates our view of the world by imposing powerful theories against the ancient, anthropocentric prejudices that we call intuit...

#Robin Hogarth #intuition #expertise

The rise of the unscrupulous optimist

Mar 05, 2016 | Category: leadership

"Optimism, n.: The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly." Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary Education is a project filled with hope. We stand, framed heroical...

#Robert Coe #College of Teaching #Roger Scruton

Big data is bad data

Jan 11, 2016 | Category: leadership

The cost of bad data is the illusion of knowledge. – Stephen Hawking Schools, as with almost every other organ of state, are increasingly obsessed with big data. There seem to be two main aims:...

#data #Nicholas Nassim Taleb

Discord isn't disharmony: in praise of inconsistency

Dec 03, 2015 | Category: leadership

Consistency is the playground of dull minds. Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens What’s so great about consistency? How has the consensus that everybody 'singing from the same hymn sheet’ is always the best i...

#consistency #experience #Yuval Noah Harari

On fragility: why systems fail

Dec 24, 2015 | Category: leadership

In Antifragile, Nassim Taleb argues that the opposite of fragile is not, as is commonly supposed, robust or resilient. These are merely neutral conditions. The antonym of fragile doesn't seem to exist...

#Nassim Taleb

Student voice: windmills of the mind

Dec 12, 2015 | Category: leadership

Pray look better, Sir … those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.Cervantes Does it matter if students like their teachers? Is it worth knowing if students don't maths or hate PE? Should stud...

#MET Project #Dr Fox efffect #Nick Rose #Student surveys

One more thing I want from school leaders

Dec 09, 2015 | Category: leadership

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.Goethe A few weeks back I wrote this post laying out my wishlist for the 'perfect' school leader. Since then,...

#Dunning-Kruger #intelligence #Linda Gottfredson #Stuart Richie

Opportunity knocks: the hidden cost of bad ideas

Nov 30, 2015 | Category: leadership

Remember that Time is Money. He that can earn Ten Shillings a Day by his Labour, and goes abroad, or sits idle one half of that Day, tho’ he spends but Sixpence during his Diversion or Idleness, ought...

#marking #opportunity cost

What I want from a school leader

Nov 28, 2015 | Category: leadership

In response to various posts on book monitoring earlier in the week, Lee Donaghy asked what the role of school leaders ought to be.Now, some would have it that because I don't lead a school any opinio...

#school leadership