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Posted on January 14, 2023 by Joe Kirby

*** How can we improve our schools and our leadership? ✉ Here are the 100+ articles I’ve written and shared online. All are free. *** What do we most need to know to teach and lead well? *** What can … Continue reading →

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How Athena sees the world

Posted on February 25, 2023 by Joe Kirby

How can schools best work together? A question on the minds of the best school and trust leaders I know. And it’s part of the reason we started Athena. Athena is a learning trust, a family of schools, that we … Continue reading →

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Essays

Posted on September 1, 2018 by Joe Kirby

*** How can we improve our schools and our leadership? http://<div style=”background-color: #000001; color: white; padding: 20px; border: 1px solid #bedbe5; text-align: center; border-radius: 10px;”> <h3 style=”font-size: 84px;”>✉</h3> <h3></h3> </div> Here are the 100+ essays I’ve written and shared online. … Continue reading →

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Taking feedback well

Posted on October 9, 2021 by Joe Kirby

As school leaders, we need feedback from staff on how things are going; we can’t be present in that many hotspots, CPD sessions, lessons or conversations. But it’s hard for staff to be fully honest when their jobs, livelihoods and … Continue reading →

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I’m a teacher, get me out of here

Posted on March 26, 2016 by Joe Kirby

Francis Gilbert describes his experiences of being a new teacher in a tough school with vivid candour. He agreed to let me share some extracts from the book, which is well worth reading. In a primary school I visited in … Continue reading →

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Three Assessment Butterflies

Posted on July 1, 2017 by Joe Kirby

Winston Churchill once said ‘success is stumbling from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.’ Looking back now on assessment in our first year at Michaela, I can now see what I was blind to then: we stumbled and blundered. What mistakes … Continue reading →

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To Miss With Love: Summer Term, & OFSTED

Posted on April 10, 2016 by Joe Kirby

In the final blogpost of a three-part abridgement series (first here and second here), Ofsted inspect Katharine’s school. A fight occurs during the inspection… Summer Term Monday 28 April Ms Desperate, Furious’s foster mother, marches into my office and sits down … Continue reading →

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To Miss With Love: Autumn Term

Posted on April 2, 2016 by Joe Kirby

Katharine had been teaching in inner-city schools for over a decade when she wrote ‘To Miss With Love’. Groupwork and games were required in lessons; bullying and fights were prevalent. In one incident, a stone is thrown at a teacher; … Continue reading →

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To Miss with Love: Spring Term

Posted on April 9, 2016 by Joe Kirby

What is the behaviour like in many of the schools rated ‘good’ by Ofsted? Katharine’s book ‘To Miss With Love’ exposed chaotic disruption of lessons and bullying of vulnerable pupils. This is the second in a series of three posts … Continue reading →

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Supply Teaching in England

Posted on February 20, 2016 by Joe Kirby

Charlie Carroll is a supply teacher whose book is called ‘On The Edge’. I asked him if I could share some extracts. Charlie kindly agreed, so here is the second of two blogposts (the first is here) sharing a supply … Continue reading →

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