This platform feels a bit quiet for me & with other accounts to manage, I shall be logging off for a while! 🤗

Really lovely to see you Jo! 🙏

What a day! Proud to have shared a room with such a brilliant network, shared a stage with such incredible speakers, & shared the satisfaction of a great day with a wonderful team 🙏 Days like this make me realise how special this network & work really is #ProudCEO

I hear you Kimberley & quite understand the scepticism! If you get chance to read our paper, it does go far beyond the idea of a sector promise to drive collaboration, there's plenty in there of a practical level alongside. Absolutely open to a chat & a coffee anytime 😊

Totally agree Kimberley, it must be so much more than words! One reason for the sector-wide promise was to give teachers & staff a way to hold their organisations accountable too - i.e. on the actions that sit behind each area. There is plenty of good practice but we need system wide action too.

Very proud to have contributed to this piece: schoolsweek.co.uk/a-system-wid...

Why school leaders should sign up to a retention promise

Working together as system leaders, we can solve a large part of the teacher retention crisis ourselves

Delighted to have contributed to this excellent report from @alicegregson.bsky.socialschoolsweek.co.uk/a-system-wid...

Why school leaders should sign up to a retention promise

Working together as system leaders, we can solve a large part of the teacher retention crisis ourselves

Thanks so much Jonny 🙏🙏 It'll be interesting to see if we can implement something like this for education - the NHS have their service wide 'People Promise' - we could do something similar! Not a solution in itself but could support system wide collaboration...

Forum Strategy have produced a third system leadership paper - about the challenge of teacher retention which you can see here: forumstrategy.org/system-leade...schoolsweek.co.uk/a-system-wid...

This will be my 5th academic year at Forum Strategy - how time flies! I can honestly say I've never questioned the decision to join this incredible team. An organisation with a commitment to integrity, quality, humanity & humility at its heart, evident in all it does 🙏

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