Nick Hart

Principal @CognitaSchools | MBA Educational Leadership @CEL_IOE | Author of #ImpactBook and #CultureBook

[Nick Hart @MrNickHart]

#LeadershipHandbook | Inclusion
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From the archives: 6 questions about assessment

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The 5 basic school plots
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Research on leadership in complex systems describes leaders enabling change by becoming what’s called a tag: a reference point that others attach attention and meaning to. But leader as tag is a risk, a perpetuation of the hero paradigm. The tag isn’t the leader. It’s the story.

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From the archives: The stories we tell | Assessment
New this week: The story, not the story teller

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Leaders who generated the strongest sense making were meeting people 1 to 1 deliberately, across the life of a change: time & space set aside, the same story tested in conversation with room left for the other person to push back, add detail and tell it differently.

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From the archives: The stories we tell | Assessment
New this week: The story, not the story teller

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We seldom get the majority of the team together in one place and this structured story telling does important work in striving for clarity, reducing ambiguity, promoting shared beliefs and the language with which to talk about them.

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Filling the windscreen with stories assumes one directional control over what the team sees; passengers seeing the road ahead that has been told by the leader. But a story well told isn’t always one directional.

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Daniel Coyle’s advice to leaders is to fill the windscreen with stories, often enough that they become the lens people see the work through. It’s a useful image and most leaders could do with telling more stories, not fewer.

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From the archives: The stories we tell | Assessment
New this week: The story, not the story teller

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Great stories are catalysts for improvement & it tempting to associate this with the person; a heroic leader with a well crafted call to action. Powerful story telling can be learned & we can make it about the story, not the person.

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From the archives: The stories we tell | Assessment
New this week: The story, not the story teller

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Leadership handbook | Inclusion
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From the archives: The stories we tell | Assessment
New this week: The story, not the story teller

And new this month from the #LeadershipHandbook: Inclusion

[Nick Hart @MrNickHart]

The story, not the story teller
https://t.co/L9iEoBCeVn

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A school that believes students should learn alongside peers wherever possible but has no plan for reducing the time any pupil spends outside the mainstream classroom is incoherent.

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From the archives: The stories we tell | SEND

New this week: We are inclusive

And new this month from the #LeadershipHandbook: Inclusion

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A school that believes in building from strengths but only ever reviews students with SEND through the lens of what they find difficult is incoherent.

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From the archives: The stories we tell | SEND

New this week: We are inclusive

And new this month from the #LeadershipHandbook: Inclusion

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A school that believes inclusion is everyone’s responsibility but structures its CPD so that only inclusion staff receive training on SEND is incoherent.

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[Hélène Galdin-O'Shea @hgaldinoshea]

Great reads. Recommended.

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The non examples in an inclusion definition are beliefs that exist in most schools. They are revealed in conversations about a struggling student, how a TA is deployed, what gets written in a report, what a teacher privately thinks when they look at their timetable.

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New this week: We are inclusive

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[Efrat Furst @EfratFurst]

@initiolearning What is a teacher's superpower?
Teachers are experts who overcome the expert’s bias and regain sight of the building blocks.
They see through the cognitive limitations and biases and how they present themselves in every step along the way, and know what works when and why.