“In education, the only way to improve is to stop people doing good things, to give them time to do even better things.” Dylan Wiliam It appears like a trite piece of …
Sir Dave Brailsford: Creating an Outperforming Team
I am a great fan of Sir Dave Brailsford, Team Principal of the Sky cycling team, and I have written before about how his ‘marginal gains’ approach to teaching and school leadership …
‘The Butterfly Effect’ in Schools
“If a single flap of a butterfly’s wing can be instrumental in generating a tornado, so can all the previous and subsequent flaps of its wings, as can the flaps of …
School Improvement – The Dave Brailsford Model
Today there is a great article on the BBC website about the inexorable progress of the Sky cycling team under the expert stewardship of Dave Brailsford – see here. The ‘aggregation of …