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  • The four qualities of great school leaders

    The four qualities of great school leaders

    This is an edited extract from How to Lead: The second edition of Leadership for Learning by Matt Bromley, published by Spark Education Books UK and available in paperback and ebook. In my book Teach (2015) I wrote at length about what makes a great teacher. In short, I said that great teachers are relentless Read more

  • The six realms of school leadership

    The six realms of school leadership

    This is an edited extract from How to Lead: The second edition of Leadership for Learning by Matt Bromley, published by Spark Education Books UK and available in paperback and ebook. A good school leader is synonymous with being: A good school leader should not and must not be consumed by what other people think. Read more

  • The open loop

    The open loop

    This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in November 2017.  You can read the original version on the SecEd website here.   You can access the full archive of my columns for SecEd here.  To help pupils learn, we need to provide them with plentiful opportunities to practise, receive feedback, reflect, and then act upon Read more

  • A lesson plan is not a planned lesson

    A lesson plan is not a planned lesson

    This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in November 2017.  You can read the original version on the SecEd website here.   You can access the full archive of my columns for SecEd here.  This article is about planned lessons not lesson plans. I do not advocate spending your evenings and weekends writing detailed pro Read more

  • The learning process: Part 10

    The learning process: Part 10

    This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in November 2017.  You can read the original version on the SecEd website here.   You can access the full archive of my columns for SecEd here. This is the final instalment in a 10-part series.  Catch up with the series so far.  I started this 10-part series by asking Read more

  • The learning process: Part 9

    The learning process: Part 9

    This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in November 2017.  You can read the original version on the SecEd website here.   You can access the full archive of my columns for SecEd here.  This is part nine of a 10-part series.  Catch up with the series so far. As we have discovering in this series, Read more

  • The learning process: Part 8

    The learning process: Part 8

    This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in November 2017.  You can read the original version on the SecEd website here.   You can access the full archive of my columns for SecEd here.  This is part eight of a 10-part series.  Catch up with the series so far. The process of learning is the interaction Read more

  • The learning process: Part 7

    The learning process: Part 7

    This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in September 2017.  You can read the original version on the SecEd website here.   You can access the full archive of my columns for SecEd here.  This is part seven of a 10-part series.  Catch up with the series so far. The process of learning is the interaction Read more

  • The learning process: Part 6

    The learning process: Part 6

    This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in September 2017.  You can read the original version on the SecEd website here.   You can access the full archive of my columns for SecEd here.  This is part six of a 10-part series.  Catch up with the series so far. Last time I argued that, if we Read more

  • The learning process: Part 5

    The learning process: Part 5

    This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in September 2017.  You can read the original version on the SecEd website here.   You can access the full archive of my columns for SecEd here.  This is part five of a 10-part series.  Catch up with the series so far. If I asked you to calculate 57 Read more

  • The learning process: Part 4

    The learning process: Part 4

    This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in September 2017.  You can read the original version on the SecEd website here.   You can access the full archive of my columns for SecEd here.  This is part four of a 10-part series.  Catch up with the series so far. In this series of articles I’m exploring Read more

  • The learning process: Part 3

    The learning process: Part 3

    This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in September 2017.  You can read the original version on the SecEd website here.   You can access the full archive of my columns for SecEd here.  This is part three of a 10-part series.  Read the first part  and the second part.  Last time, I argued that the Read more

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