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		<title>From the bottom up</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 22:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We finished for the Christmas holidays today. I have a few things to do next week as I&#8217;m leading our INSET day on literacy on the 3rd January. Nonetheless, I&#8217;ve got most of the two weeks available to spend with the family. One of the things that was mentioned in the end of term speech [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrlock.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2133686&amp;post=271&amp;subd=mrlock&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is Strategic Thinking?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 22:39:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was telling my headteacher at lunch today about a book I bought this weekend - &#8220;The Decision Book &#8211; Fifty Models for Strategic Thinking&#8221; by Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschappeler. I bought it after seeing it on Doug Belshaw&#8217;s blog (which I have referred to half a dozen times through this blog; no link [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrlock.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2133686&amp;post=185&amp;subd=mrlock&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Passion for Learning</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 22:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In less than a week, we&#8217;re going to trial Open Space Technology at my school. This highly participative process, used all around the world, means that I can&#8217;t control what comes up. Colleagues can start, recruit to, attend, and develop plans from workshops of their own choosing. It means that the content can&#8217;t be predicted. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrlock.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2133686&amp;post=182&amp;subd=mrlock&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>10 Tips on School Leadership</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 16:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I picked this up from Doug Belshaw&#8217;s blog, which I&#8217;ve read in various forms for a few years. I was going to send this to all of SLT, but thought some might receive it better than others &#8211; and then couldn&#8217;t decide who to send it to. There is an important message within it, to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrlock.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2133686&amp;post=178&amp;subd=mrlock&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:17:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our school signed up to a trial of Twitter, but then the people offering the trial have been tardy about it. So I&#8217;ve started a trial. No-one is following yet, and my experience of using Twitter is to discuss baseball and education with other people interested in baseball and education. Hence, I&#8217;m not really sure [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrlock.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2133686&amp;post=176&amp;subd=mrlock&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>OFSTED 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:51:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So the week before half term, which I&#8217;ve just about got through, and our OFSTED inspection! It&#8217;s a little under three years since the last one. Well our school inspection report isn&#8217;t up on the OFSTED site yet, so it might be a little strange to write too much detail about the actual specific outcomes. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrlock.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2133686&amp;post=171&amp;subd=mrlock&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Another great education debate?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After our OFSTED inspection was, typically, foisted upon us this week &#8211; it is literally the most stressful week of my career every time, and I&#8217;m convinced each time it&#8217;s been worse than the last, I have spent the weekend doing nothing. My marathon training is on hold until tomorrow. I haven&#8217;t touched any work. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrlock.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2133686&amp;post=169&amp;subd=mrlock&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to we ensure we have great teachers?</title>
		<link>http://mrlock.wordpress.com/2010/01/25/how-to-we-ensure-we-have-great-teachers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Joe sent me an article by Malcolm Gladwell , who I believe is better known for a book called The Tipping Point, that has been on my &#8220;I will read this&#8221; list since the reflective practice project that started this blog. I read the article in a bit more detail last night and basically it suggests that you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrlock.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2133686&amp;post=148&amp;subd=mrlock&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>OFSTED</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This won&#8217;t be a very controversial post. I haven&#8217;t met a teacher who is uncritically supportive of OFSTED in its current form. But then, in my career, I&#8217;ve never met a teacher who is uncritically supportive of OFSTED in any form since its inception. I remember everyone would blame Chris Woodhead, and I think now [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrlock.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2133686&amp;post=146&amp;subd=mrlock&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The trip to Australia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LECT Study Trip to Australia, August 2009 Introduction/ Aims: I have seen a large number of Australian teachers teach in the UK in several schools I have worked in. A generalised impression would be that colleagues who have trained in Australia seem to be more naturally able to plan lessons taking into account individual students [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrlock.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2133686&amp;post=144&amp;subd=mrlock&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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