Look out for my new article in Journal of Educational Administration and Leadership
'Mapping the discursive formations of 'effective' school governance and the role of parents'.  

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Manchester Institute of Education (MIE) CELP Research Group Prof Steve Courtney @ Andrew Howes Jo Doherty dr jan hetherington

Such a pleasure to show a new governor around The wonderful Winterton Federation yesterday as part of her Induction Process. First day back after Easter & lovely to see our children learning, playing & telling us about what they were doing. It reminds us why we do what we do.

Ethics approved! Data collection can begin - so exciting after all the months/years of reading and planning! I can't wait to actually start talking to governor colleagues! #PhD #AlwaysLearning #AnotherStep

Piece on Sure Start free to read here. A cost effective programme enhancing life chances of poor children. A series of policy mistakes saw it diluted and effectively ended. We have chosen a different route: childcare subsidies for working families, not support for poor families.

Sure Start worked. It had big long term effects on the educational achievement of poor children. Its demise is a study in policy failure - over centralisation, over extension, poor data, 'not invented here syndrome'. thetimes.co.uk/article/sure-s…

Calling all #Governors & #Trustees , check-out another great resource from NGA For Schools & Trusts #VisibleGovernance following the updated Governance guides ⬇️

#visiblegovernance #WakefieldonBoard

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We've never read The Culture Code as a #SlowReadandChat it's available cheaply on second-hand sites, so that's another option for this summer. Any other suggestions?
So far we have Board Talk & a suggestion about a book about minutes - title? #UKGovsRead #EffectiveGovernance

Placing schools at the heart of a new Sure Start around a core of breakfast clubs, after school & holiday provision with joined up services wld transform neighbourhoods & with it life chances. Labour has the opportunity of delivering all gd about Sure Start in a new creative way.

A beautiful Slavonian Grebe at Far Ings today - showing well on Target Pit. Photos by Audrey Graham! A good arrival of Willow Warbler and Blackcap also on site today Lincsbirding

Bring back the Children’s Centres - make them Family ones - and do it properly, like this. It works. If anyone ever wants a decent coffee and to see how Strive works, give me a shout.

Extremely excited to share our blog by Tanya Andrewes PGR and me!
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A brilliant way to end #100DaysOfEdD / #100DaysOfPhD
Do give it a read to see what the 100Days have meant to people and what is coming next!
#PhD #phdvoice #PhD position #PhD life #phdchat

Ethics back in #PhDEveryDayInApril Fingers crossed !

I've done some thinking (& writing) about governance as leadership for another writing thing & so that all helps for my PhD doesn't it? #PhDEveryDayinApril Tomorrow I've to resubmit my ethics application with amendments (sorry to keep banging on about it but it's bugging me😭)

Sent my amended ethics application to my supervisor today for her to check I am on the right track with it #PhD EveryDayInApril Lots of useful sections in it for the ethics bit of my thesis so tomorrow I will do a bit of organising for that Chapter. #LittleSteps #PhD

Any ideas? - what have you read recently that has influenced your thinking or practice as a governor? Do let us know #UKGovsRead #AlwaysLearning #EffectiveGovernance

Day 5 of April & in the past 2 days I've addressed all the suggestions made by the reviewer for my ethics application. Just need to get it in order to go back to my supervisor now #PhD EveryDayInApril feeling weary but it's Friday night & time to chill with a cool drink! #PhD

Hi Alan - you and I will need to have a chat sometime about the conference workshop on June 20th. Let me know when you are at a point to start thinking about it and we can maybe fix a Zoom to chat it over.

What Edu/governance books have you read recently that really made you think? As a preliminary scan for a suitable book for our #UKGovsRead summer slow read & chat - tell us about any good leadership/governance or related topic books you've read. Past reads for us include ...

Having faltered in the #100DaysOfPhD of late I have started my own little target for April - do something for PhD every day. So - yesterday read a really useful paper, today (2nd) planned how I will tackle the work over the next 5 days #PhDAprilEveryDay #LittleSteps

#100DaysOfPhD - a great day of work with over 4000 words of my methodology written 🎉 Suddenly it all falls into place & even though I haven't written a lot in the last couple of weeks I've been thinking ... April is going to be an important month for me to crack this chapter!