CHAMPION, CHALLENGE, NETWORK AND ENCOURAGE!

Interesting times! But don't despair because what I have learned over the last twenty years and through working with extraordinary colleagues and extraordinary schools in North Yorkshire, York, Leeds, Nottingham, Sheffield and Lincoln provides us with a framework for delivering brilliant schools and brilliant outcomes for every child and young person and every community!

So what have I learned?

• We need a more intelligent approach focused on learning leadership, beautiful systems and intelligent accountability!
• We need a more intelligent approach focused on what works: feedback, master coaching and deliberate practice! 
• We need a more intelligent approach focused on partnership, collaboration, cooperation & networking. 

AND IN AN INCREASINGLY 'ACADEMISED' WORLD we need to reinvent local middle tier to champion, challenge, network & encourage schools... and it isn't OFSTED!