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- Today’s #thoughtlet is about #leadership #culture. When questioning is taken as resistance, or alignment is mistaken for agreement, culture takes a hit. Healthy school cultures make space for principled disagreement. That’s not a weakness. It’s a strength.
- Today’s #thoughtlet is about #professionaljudgement & #leadership. Fluency & polished outcomes can mask shallow understanding. In classrooms & meetings appearance can be mistaken for depth. It’s not whether something looks complete, but whether it can withstand questioning, transfer & application.
- Today’s #thoughtlet is about #leadership. Speed can feel reassuring. But many of the most important issues are not solved by quick responses or confident declarations. Good leaders slow the conversation and create space for thinking before deciding. Which questions we are giving time to?
- Today’s #thoughtlet is about #culture and #behaviour. Culture is formed in everyday moments: behaviour that goes unchallenged; unfair decisions that remain uncontested; standards that slip because addressing them is uncomfortable. Over time, these moments become the norm, not the exception.
- Today’s #thoughtlet is about #leadership and #culture. What looks efficient in timetables, data dashboards or decision chains can feel very different in classrooms and staffrooms. In healthy cultures, efficiency serves learning and care. In more toxic ones, it replaces them.
- Today’s #thoughtlet is about #leadership and #culture. Culture is shaped in the everyday moments. How decisions are explained. How mistakes are handled. How people are treated. Small things, done consistently, are what really matters. Worth holding in mind.
- Today’s #Thoughtlet is as much about #Pedagogy as it is about #Leadership. We often mistake challenge for withdrawal, removing scaffolds just as thinking becomes demanding. In strong learning cultures, it works the other way round: support increases as thinking gets harder.
- Today’s #thoughtlet is about #agency. Most professionals don’t lack motivation. They lack trust. When professional judgement is replaced with instruction, compliance rises but agency recedes. Trusting people to think does not lower standards, it raises them. Worth holding in mind, I think.
- Today’s #thoughtlet is about #edtech: ”Technology amplifies intent before it improves outcomes.” Tech isn’t progressive or traditional. It doesn’t magically turn mediocre teaching into excellent teaching. It just turns the volume up. Or, as Bananarama put it: it ain’t what you do…
- Daily #thoughtlet. Today on #leadership Many leaders carry this weight with good intent. But when everything flows through one person, the system slows and your team's capability diminishes. The real work of leadership is not becoming indispensable, but making yourself less so over time.
- Daily #thoughtlet The best leaders cultivate successors, not followers. Their success is not measured by being indispensable, but by how well others flourish in their absence. A true legacy is capacity, not dependency. Leadership is about growing people, not reliance.
- Daily #Thoughtlet #Leadership is contagious. Good or bad, your style ripples through an organisation. If you shadowed yourself for a week, would you want to catch what you’re spreading?
