Shane Leaning
@shaneleaning
Author, podcaster & organisational coach. I help education leaders grow in confidence and clarity. Join my leadership intensive: educationleaders.co/intensive My book: My podcast:
Tom Sherrington records every episode in one take, no re-editing the conversation. He says he's learned to relax about it because people aren't bothered by the odd tech mishap. Listen here: buff.ly/oFo5O3R
Skylah-Rose, Education Leaders' production assistant, saved the week and pulled an old chat with Tom Sherrington out of the archive, back from when this show was called Global Ed Leaders. Listen here: buff.ly/oFo5O3R
Our forum is on tomorrow, and everyone's welcome. @shaneleaning.com leads a live CPD on our new paper, Schools Know Best, plus new research and ways to get involved. 10am London / 5pm Shanghai · 1hr online. Join us: buff.ly/JQ0HH1C #ChangeStartsHere
Poppy's biggest piece of advice after building Management Mastery? You cannot over-communicate. And a corridor conversation isn't a communication strategy. buff.ly/JhXZeQq
Learning styles are debunked, but they're still not going anywhere. Zaretta Hammond calls it the cockroach of education. Listen here: buff.ly/ogreYum #TeacherLeadership
Zaretta said something about doctors and electricians that made me rethink how teachers get supported. Listen here: buff.ly/ogreYum #SchoolLeadership
Never thought I’d see both Scunthorpe (my hometown) and China as the headline article on BBC news.
England, you’ve been awesome. See you again soon! 🏴 ✈️ 🇶🇦 ✈️ 🇨🇳
Your teaching practice might be wallpaper; you walk past it so often you stop seeing the pattern. Zaretta Hammond on making the familiar strange: Listen here: buff.ly/ogreYum #TeacherDevelopment
Are we actually in a learning crisis, or just chasing silver bullets? Zaretta Hammond says the real gap is that kids aren't being taught how to learn at all. Listen here: buff.ly/ogreYum #EducationalLeadership
The balcony and the dance floor. Ten minutes. One analogy. Her cohort is still using it months later. New episode with Poppy Nobes. Listen here: buff.ly/JhXZeQq
Poppy made up a fictional staff member and had her cohort plan and run a full appraisal conversation live, in the room, with feedback. That's what practice-based leadership development actually looks like. buff.ly/JhXZeQq #LeadershipDevelopment
How do you make someone in Manchester feel like they're sat in the same room as someone in Brighton? Poppy calls it "dissolving the screen." Her whole online programme is built around it. buff.ly/JhXZeQq #SchoolLeadership
Catching up on work from Bridlington. Can only mean one thing. Wetherspoon free coffee refills.
"The words can often be quite fine; it's where people are sitting that can be quite confronting." Said this in this week's episode, worth coming back to. Listen here: buff.ly/lcbwLCa
Parker Palmer said the soul is shy and the truth has to be approached always on a bit of a slant. Applies to teacher feedback more than you'd think. New ep: buff.ly/lcbwLCa
"There's nowhere else for it to land, so it can land very much like a verdict." This is what face-to-face feedback does, even when the words are kind. New ep on fixing it: buff.ly/lcbwLCa
Jim Knight: The evidence should do the hard bit, not the coach. "The teacher's working it out for themselves." That's three-point communication. Latest episode: buff.ly/lcbwLCa
Roaaaad Triiiiip! On my way to The Festival of Education. Will I see you there?
Work Collaborative heading back to the Festival of Education this summer. If you're going to be there, come and say hello. Details: workcollaborative.com/festival/ #ChangeStartsHere
What if every time a new initiative landed in your school, the first question was "on what evidence is this based?" Patrice Bain reckons that one question from a leader could change everything. buff.ly/E7K4ywd #SchoolLeadership
Spoke to Patrice Bain this week and realised I'd been taking for granted how lucky I am to know the people I know in this space. Not everyone feels like they can just reach out. This episode is for them. Listen here: buff.ly/E7K4ywd
2,800 of you tune into the Education Leaders podcast every week. Just the regulars. The Sydney Opera House seats about 2,700. Picture every seat full, plus a few at the back.And that's before the thousands who drop in for a topic. Thank you. Genuinely. 🙏
The research community feels like another world until someone from it replies to your message. Then it just feels like people who care about the same things you do. Listen here: buff.ly/E7K4ywd
Most changes in schools don’t fail on planning. They fail because the leader skipped a step. Connection. My session at The Festival of Education next Thursday. Wellington College. Plus a Work Collaborative panel I’m mega looking forward to. Let me know if you will be there?
"Don't defend a position you never held." Three steps. No drama. No accusations. Listen here: buff.ly/Ws4xBrx
There's a physical tell when a straw man happens, a flash of "hang on, that's not what I said." Most of us feel it. Then we immediately start defending anyway. That's the trap. Listen here: buff.ly/Ws4xBrx #SchoolLeadership
Happy Dragon Boat Festival. 端午节快乐. To everyone in our community celebrating today, we hope it is a joyful and restful one. However you spend it, may your team be in rhythm and your direction clear. 🐉