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

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

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

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 🙏

the word integrity is on a purple background surrounded by stars

ALT: the word integrity is on a purple background surrounded by stars

Just over 2 weeks until our 7th national CEO conference. With so much already happening in this new academic year, this is the place to step away to fully digest, reflect & connect as CEOs. I've had great calls with our contributors & this will be an incredible day! forumstrategy.org/national-tru...

I'm not sure about this. Titles don't create hierarchies, behaviours & leadership styles do. Titles are indicators of responsibility (people ultimately need to know where the buck stops). Inclusive, less hierarchical orgs are created through behaviour & conscious intention.

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Exclusive: An academy trust has dispensed with senior job titles like CEO to 'avoid top-down control' – with all bosses all renamed as 'school and college trust leaders' Full story 🔽

Trust ditches titles like CEO to 'avoid top-down control'

Dixons will instead have more than 20 staff called 'school and college trust leaders'

I think this will be welcome news to many & a step in the right direction re accountability reform. As ever though, this won't be enough on it's own so interesting to see how further reform is undertaken to develop a better accountability system. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ofsted: One-word grades for schools to be scrapped

Schools in England will no longer be classed as

They say you can tell a lot about a person by their book shelf...Here's what's on my top shelf. I wonder what it says about me? 🤔 #LoveToRead