LEADERS AND MANAGERS MATTER... PASS IT ON!

In so many crucial aspects from politics to banking and from the NHS to education we face a leadership crisis, and Sir Michael Wilshaw has been stressing the importance of great leadership driving great teaching and learning.

LET'S BUILD ON WHAT WORKS... PASS IT ON!

Everyone I talk to about the challenges we face recognises that to achieve world-class outcomes we need a new and different approach to education and learning. This isn't going to be easy but always remember that...

CAMPAIGN FOR WHAT WORKS... PASS IT ON!

I have spent the last forty years in this crazy profession searching for the extraordinary; looking for what works and trying to understand why some things don't work!

 

I have spent a huge amount of time in schools working with talented colleagues, coaching and mentoring, observing lessons, listening to students, giving feedback, writing reports and reflecting on what I have seen.

SHARE, NETWORK AND LEARN... PASS IT ON!

We all need to share, network and learn. 

I am still currently learning in Sheffield and Staffordshire but I am always happy to share. Alway happy to network. Always happy to help! You can contact me at chris@brilliant-learning.co.uk

DON'T WAKE UP IN THE MORNING WITH REGRETS... PASS IT ON!

"So love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don’t and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said that it’d be easy, they just promised it would be worth it." Unknown

I have spent the Summer reflecting on what I have learned over the years and reading about the things that work! Over the last forty years I have learnt so much from so many talented people and everything I have read convinces me that the answers to all the problems we face lie in developing learning communities built on deep research, coaching, learning leadership, beautiful systems, intelligent accountability and the importance of discipline and character.

WELCOME BACK TO ANOTHER NEW YEAR

I am sorry that the blog has stayed silent for such a long time but it has been an interesting and very busy Summer.... and a gloriously sunny one. However, the football is back, another school year has started and Autumn has now rolled in. The important thing, come what may, is to stay positive and remember the things that matter... faith, friends and family!

KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON... PASS IT ON!

REMEMBER...
"The principal goal of education... 

should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things... 

men and women who are creative, inventive, and discoverers."

Jean Piaget

HAPPPY HOLIDAY.. PASS IT ON!

The weather has taken a turn for the worse but a friend once told me that 

there is no such thing as bad weather just the wrong clothes!!

I hope all my friends, colleagues and followers have a happy holiday, wherever you are!

THIS SUNDAY... SEND FLOWERS TO THOSE YOU LOVE AND CARE ABOUT!

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower.

Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.

William Blake

KINDNESS MATTERS... PASS IT ON!

SOMEONE ELSE'S PROBLEM!

“The Somebody Else's Problem field is much simpler and more effective, and what's more can be run for over a hundred years on a single torch battery. This is because it relies on people's natural disposition not to see anything they don't want to, weren't expecting, or can't explain.” 

― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

BE YOUR BRILLIANT BEST!

I have been to some incredible learning places recently. Across the country, brilliant colleagues working in schools and classrooms are releasing the magic and delivering world class outcomes, often against the odds. We know what it takes to build brilliant... it's alive and well in so many places.

REFLECT AND LEARN!

I suppose I have been a critical, reflective learner all my life. All the best colleagues I know, reflect on the quality of their work. They do this as professionals who are responsible for the quality of their work and for the achievements and the personal and social development of the young people they teach, and as members of a team, which is responsible for the overall quality of educational provision.