Andy King

Headteacher at Secondary 11-16. Expat 🇦🇺 in London. Views are my own

[Andy King @mrkingedu]

@NEUnion Where was this attitude when the govt said months ago there was no more money, schools must make efficiencies? We get the point about excess leadership, but that’s not the driver on this occasion. I’d like to have seen a lot of pressure months ago to support fully funded rises

[Andy King @mrkingedu]

@Strickomaster I got my results via text message 20 years ago in Australia! It’s about time over here!

[Andy King @mrkingedu]

@Doug_Lemov Downloaded! Two worlds of mine collide!

[Andy King @mrkingedu]

@Strickomaster Once again, coming at the latest point possible. A gap too big to fill, a long road of guess work ahead. All the while effectively gambling with ppl’s jobs and children’s education. When will education get a proper funding timeline and not fumbling papers around at the 11th hr.

[Andy King @mrkingedu]

@warwickmansell @BBCr4today Also worth adding in there are thousands of staff and leaders who had no role in the decision of academising, who work tirelessly for the good of children. Academies aren’t new, and there are a lot of us trying to do our best in a sector which is always at the hands of the govt

[Andy King @mrkingedu]

Great to read, how they actually make this happen I’m keen to hear more on. One of the key steps is giving LA admission control, so the greed of one school doesn’t impact other schools and inevitably children

[Schools Week @SchoolsWeek]

.@bphillipsonMP has told academy trusts the current system 'incentivises' schools to 'avoid more challenging communities'

'But that chase for a narrow shadow of excellence, the kind that only succeeds by pushing problems onto others, that ends now'

https://t.co/G6O1P6BUwD

[HeadteacherChat @Headteacherchat]

After engaging in numerous coaching conversations with headteachers in recent weeks, I have reached a firm conclusion:

If you do not currently work in a school, you truly have no idea about the extent of the challenges we are facing.

[Andy King @mrkingedu]

Put the telegraph down ladies and gents…back school leaders. Enough said

[Kay Burley @KayBurley]

Will disruptive pupils still face permanent exclusion under the new Govt?

Here's Education Secretary @bphillipsonMP

#KayBurley FC

[Andy King @mrkingedu]

@Strickomaster Belonging 👌🏻 great read, shaped my first years as head.

[Andy King @mrkingedu]

@kevbartle @ssat Has the MAT experiment run its course? Not saying LEA is the answer, but in my borough there are 6 secondaries, 4 CEOs, 2 exec heads on top of HT of HoS.

[Andy King @mrkingedu]

@jonathansimons Very interesting concept. Ask young teachers, they’ve been saying why the increase in employer pension recently (5%) and not salary…I see arguments from all sides. Hats off for creative options - remember it’s an option not a cost saver

[Andy King @mrkingedu]

I wonder if the MOD or even the parliamentary salaries of MPs have to budget their staffing based on guess work and assumptions for the pay year that starts 6 weeks ahead? Why is education treated with such disrespect and contempt. THE EDUCATION SYSTEM IS BROKEN!

[Andy King @mrkingedu]

@HannahP95844309 @Strickomaster The problem is it’s all planned on guess work. The future of the country resources on best guesses. Did you budget a 5% rise? Or less? Did you add in estimated funding of 1/2/3/3.5% and fill the gaps? It’s shocking the way we are left to plan and forecast on such poor data…ugh

[Andy King @mrkingedu]

@Ria1984 @chrisedwardsuk @Lionesses Be odd to send a letter like that in the summer holidays…but I’m sure you did your research before trying to cut down a great public servant

[Andy King @mrkingedu]

@drum980 @DanielKebedeNEU The difference is dependent on context. In my borough, 6 secondaries 4 MATs and one stand alone with exec head and two heads. Sooooo probably millions in public funds, plus LEA funding, with zero joined up work. The trust systems has not worked for all, that is for certain

[Andy King @mrkingedu]

@tombennett71 Still scrolling for the point that these children also have parents at some point in this… very little said about poor parenting pipeline to prison. Maybe it’s just the problem pronouncing plenty of Ps or it’s easier to throw mud at schools on the regular

[Andy King @mrkingedu]

This will take ten years to correct and recover from.

[Dr Jill Berry @jillberry102]

Teacher retention figures - this is sobering. "Imagine a class of 100 graduating teachers, fresh-faced & eager... 11 of those will have left the state-funded sector after just one year of teaching. After 3 years, 26 will have left. After 5 years, that number becomes 33..." 1/2

[Doug Lemov @Doug_Lemov]

Apparently there’s a teacher (think she’s a teacher; I’ve never actually heard of her) insisting that using TLAC techniques precludes doing all the things teachers who use them routinely do: listen to children, honor them, appreciate them etc. The fact that so many teachers quite easily use the techniques to create loving positive classrooms where children thrive & learn underscores that if you think structure & routines preclude connection & caring or that being able to shape students’ attentional habits destroys their subjecthood the limitation is your own. Again I know this because I have seen so many teachers prove the opposite. Daily. Cheers.

[Laura McInerney @miss_mcinerney]

Schools have admirably dealt with refugee children for years: Syria, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Hong Kong.

An influx of kids from private schools is not quite the challenge the Education Secretary seems to think it is!