Writing
Roger has written articles for publication, chapters for books and blog pieces for a number of websites, as well as his own article which have been well received on LinkedIn.
Here are a couple of examples…
It’s Time to Talk About Time Out and Thinking Time.
Isn’t it strange how we can think we know our schools and then something happens that makes us realise that no amount of monitoring is ever enough to really be sure that what we think is happening is actually happening. And there is a whole spectrum of this to identify and put straight. This ranges from the trivial foolishness of those occasional mavericks that we find out we have employed (you know the ones… they seemed perfectly normal when we appointed them but less than a week after they start in post we find out that they were just hugely skilled at teaching one good observed lesson and keeping their eccentricity in check during the interview process) to the potentially seriously damaging cultures that can emerge if we take our eye off that particular spinning plate for even the briefest of moments…
Professional Maturity and Professional Generosity: simple messages guiding culture change in a disadvantaged school.
Barking and Dagenham London, UK, is not the easiest place to work in education. The level of deprivation (6th most deprived borough in England), the high mobility of our population, the broad and rapidly changing diversity of our community (in my own school EAL is 86% and that is spread across 72 different languages) are just a few of the factors that contribute to the pressures of maintaining the highest possible standards of education, care and support for our pupils and our school community…