Leadership in an Uncertain World Geoff Barton King Edward VI School, Bury St Edmunds Sunday, November 15, 2015 Download this presentation at (Number 96)

Miranda: “O brave new world that has such people in't!” Prospero: “'Tis new to thee”.

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Old Joke

Collective Nouns

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Q:What’s the collective noun for a group of headteachers? A:A ‘lack’ of principals

Q:What’s the collective noun for a group of headteachers? A:A ‘lack’ of principals

Q:What’s the collective noun for a group of headteachers? A:A ‘lack’ of principles

"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always got" Bill Clinton US President,

“Those who stand for nothing fall for anything” Alexander Hamilton Founding Father,

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Small things are linked to big things 1

Chief executives belong to business 2

Saying no is harder than saying yes 3

Pronouns matter: I – we Me - us 4

Bluffing is an essential skill 5

We need to be crosser 6

Matthew was right 7

The Matthew Effect (Robert K Merton)

The rich shall get richer and the poor shall get poorer Matthew 13:12

“The word-rich get richer while the word-poor get poorer” in their reading skills (CASL)

“While good readers gain new skills very rapidly, and quickly move from learning to read to reading to learn, poor readers become increasingly frustrated with the act of reading, and try to avoid reading where possible” The Matthew Effect Daniel Rigney

“Students who begin with high verbal aptitudes find themselves in verbally enriched social environments and have a double advantage.” The Matthew Effect Daniel Rigney

“Good readers may choose friends who also read avidly while poor readers seek friends with whom they share other enjoyments” The Matthew Effect Daniel Rigney

Stricht’s Law: “reading ability in children cannot exceed their listening ability …” E.D. Hirsch The Schools We Need

“Spoken language forms a constraint, a ceiling not only on the ability to comprehend but also on the ability to write, beyond which literacy cannot progress” Myhill and Fisher

“The children who possess intellectual capital when they first arrive at school have the mental scaffolding and Velcro to catch hold of what is going on, and they can turn the new knowledge into still more Velcro to gain still more knowledge”. E.D. Hirsch The Schools We Need

Aged 7: Children in the top quartile have 7100 words; children in the lowest have around The main influence is parents. DfE Research Unit

Every teacher in English is a teacher of English George Sampson, 1922

The Matthew Effect: The rich will get richer & the poor will get poorer

Research the life of Martin Luther King

So how would you, a fully paid-up member of the literacy club, approach the task?

Appearances matter 8

We are not making baked beans 9

This isn’t a club for teachers 10

Underpinning question: ‘Would I be happy for my child to be taught in this classroom?’ 11

Getting work done counts for a lot 12

We must teach what real learning is 13

“I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” Michael Jordan US basketball player

We have to be able to look ourselves in the mirror 14

“Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.” H. Jackson Browne Author of Life’s Little Instruction Book

“It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies … but even more to stand up to your friends” Albus Dumbledore Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets

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This much I know

Leadership in an Uncertain World Geoff Barton King Edward VI School, Bury St Edmunds Sunday, November 15, 2015 Download this presentation at (Number 96)