Nick Hart
mrnickhart.bsky.social
Nick Hart
@mrnickhart.bsky.social
Principal @CognitaSchools | MBA Educational Leadership @CEL_IOE | Author of #ImpactBook and #CultureBook

Blog | https://mrnickhart.wordpress.com/
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Systems thinking and school leadership

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January 26, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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NEW EPISODE
@mrnickhart.bsky.social is one of the most evidence-informed school leaders that I have come across. In this chat, we discuss the importance of context-specific leadership, developing others, building trust, the rhythm of a school year & more.
Listen 👇
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January 14, 2025 at 11:52 PM
📢2024 in review | Part 1

Most viewed post: Leadership Handbook 5.0
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🎙️Here's the audio overview for the post via Notebook LM: notebooklm.google.com/notebook/35bb2 

🎙️And here's the audio overview of the actual handbook:
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December 7, 2024 at 2:12 PM
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A very useful blog post as I’m thinking about how I want to develop my department 👍

“Striving for coherence of teaching approach might lead to adaptive expertise, emergence of increasingly effective strategies and genuinely meeting the needs of children.”
November 24, 2024 at 3:07 PM
November 24, 2024 at 2:37 PM
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Collaborative planning meetings

Featuring a first go at mapping mental models for shared planning @scottinghatt.bsky.social

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Collaborative planning meetings
This is a post about planning meetings. It is the quality of teaching that makes the biggest difference to outcomes for children and school leadership has a significant effect on features of the school ...
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September 20, 2024 at 4:08 PM
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💻 Webinar: The DNA of trust-led school improvement

Join Stuart Kime and CST’s Steve Rollett as they discuss scaling school improvement as trusts grow, and ambitions for the CST’s School Improvement Hub.

🗓️16th September
🕐15:30
💷FREE

Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-dna-of...
September 13, 2024 at 12:38 PM
✍️NEW THIS WEEK

When the real work begins

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September 14, 2024 at 6:15 AM
@BSMEorg TeacherCon DXB24!

📅 Saturday 5th October

📍 Hartland International School

I'll be talking about organising our thoughts about great teaching.

Sign up here: forms.gle/sfcXV3TT5Fc1...
September 12, 2024 at 4:11 PM
September 10, 2024 at 4:23 PM
What's your long term school development plan?

No, not the school improvement plan, responding to needs as they arise.

A more stable direction than that which enables responsiveness to improvement priorities...
September 9, 2024 at 3:42 PM
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Can we get teachers to notice the feedback all around them to close the gap between the teacher that children, parents and colleagues experience and the teacher that we imagine ourself to be?

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September 7, 2024 at 6:19 AM
Victoria State produces some great work around school leadership.

Here are their High Impact Wellbeing Strategies:

www.education.vic.gov.au/Documents/sc...
September 2, 2024 at 4:13 PM
‘It was (is), for me, the ultimate professional accolade – being entrusted to lead a whole school and shape the lives of not just the children within a class, but a whole community.’
🎯🎯🎯
September 1, 2024 at 4:06 AM
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Nick Hart’s stuff is always at least half my saved blogs/resources to keep referring back to. Utterly brilliant.
August 31, 2024 at 5:31 AM
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The Four Pillars of Assessment resource guide.

The guide will provide you with a strong understanding of what underpins each pillar and how it supports great assessment.

Download our free eBook on The Four Pillars of Assessment here👇📖
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August 30, 2024 at 10:29 AM
How do you organise the rhythm of the school year?

For us:

1️⃣ Alignment
2️⃣ Improvement
3️⃣ Transition
August 25, 2024 at 6:41 PM
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Just posted new blog on Bluesky and not (yet) on Twitter. Be interesting to see engagement. Will I fold and put it on Twitter too? Please help me avoid the temptation by reposting here!

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August 25, 2024 at 4:40 PM