Monthly newsletter - September

Sensible stuff, no quick fixes

Dear colleague

I hope you have had a good break. Here are some links that I hope you find helpful:

Support for schools in the wake of the race riots: Diverse Educators have produced questions to help colleagues refine the DEIB approach in their setting. The UK Race Riots, Summer 2024 - The Aftermath: support for schools

The BAMEed Network have also collated Racism in Society – Resources for schools and education settings.

Leading the Diverse Curriculum: a self-paced course from Hannah Wilson and Bennie Kara for schools wanting to diversify the curriculum. More info here.

To celebrate the start of the new academic year, we are making the primary and secondary subject networks on Myatt & Co free for all to access until Monday 9th September - you will just need an account and you can sign up for a free account here.

Course updates for the Huh Academy

The courses are online, self-paced and designed to support curriculum development, leadership and personal development.

I’m delighted to say they are now open for bookings

Curriculum Leaders: for leaders wanting to refine their curriculum work, with John Tomsett and me. More info here.

Building Teams: Lekha Sharma and Sam Crome share the research plus plenty of practical strategies for building great teams. More info here.

Being Your Best, Doing Your Best: Created by Dr Emma Kell practical, research-based coaching tools and approaches to promote coaching cultures in schools and promote and enhance self-efficacy, success and job-satisfaction. More info here.

Leadership Lobby: Andrew Morrish and I have curated the most interesting and impactful research to support leadership development. With a combination of recordings from educational leadership researchers and practitioners, together with insights from experience and practical resources to support leadership development. More info here.

Finding My Voice: A light touch, high impact personal development and oracy approach for the whole school. It’s been developed by Rachel Higginson, Emmanuel Awoyelu, Christian Foley and me. More info here.

As part of the Finding my Voice programme, Rachel Higginson and I are offering a free CPD session on Fingerprint Culture: A free session exploring how to build for belonging in the new academic year. This session is on Monday 23rd September 4-4:45pm. Suitable for all settings. You can register here.

Great news that the fifth and final book in the Huh Curriculum series is out in the world! John Tomsett and I have spoken to brilliant leaders about the curriculum for young people in alternative provision. It’s just three years since we started work on the first Huh: Curriculum Conversations between subject and senior leaders. We thought it would be the only one. It’s been a joy to find that schools wanted more, and so Primary Huh, Primary Huh 2 and SEND Huh followed.

Alternative Provision Huh is available to order here.

The Teachers' Collection is getting some lovely reviews for example from Sophie Dent, of Fairburn Primary School:

I recently did a reading webinar on how we can improve pupils’ comprehension through using high quality texts across the curriculum and you can watch it here.

Finally, one part of my daily routine is to complete the quick questions on Teacher Tapp. Hard to believe that something so quick can provide so many terrific insights! If you’re not using it yet, you can sign up here.

If you think there’s someone who would appreciate this update, you can forward the link here.

Until next time,

Mary