Sally Dennison
sallyeliz.bsky.social
Sally Dennison
@sallyeliz.bsky.social
Retired deputy headteacher. Working part time as a consultant and chair of a local governing board.
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Is Carter the only President so far to have had more impact after leaving office than in it?
December 29, 2024 at 10:19 PM
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Here, @greeborunner.bsky.social reflects on her first term as a school improvement lead in a small trust and considers the lessons learned. teachreal.wordpress.com/2024/12/17/l... #EduSkyUK #EduBlog #EduBlogUK
Lessons Learned
I am coming toward the end of my second term in my new role as improvement adviser in a MAT. While reflection is continuous, I think it is important to carve out some time to really sit down and co…
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December 17, 2024 at 3:18 PM
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Today's funny word obviously had to be Korean: 똥손 (ttongson).
Literally “poop hands,” referring to someone who’s terrible at crafts, cooking, or any hands-on task.
December 3, 2024 at 5:22 PM
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Nature Recovery underway in Field 14, St Francis Fields. Two ponds installed by the Newt Partnership are starting to fill with water.
November 27, 2024 at 5:56 PM
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Leader says "please do x"
Staff then don't do x

It's not because they are lazy, incompetent or deliberately undermining. So why is it?

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You’ve said =/= they’ve heard
It’s been a long day. I’ve been in and out of lessons throughout with a range of staff. I’ve grabbed a minute here or there for individualised feedback and did a working break and…
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October 30, 2024 at 8:55 AM
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This post by @adamboxereducation.bsky.social is really good, and applies very much to higher education as well. Perhaps even more so, where there often is no effort to ensure policies/procedures are embedded at all.
October 21, 2024 at 8:56 AM
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Reminding myself to not chase the shiny silver bullets.

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What’s Your Problem?
School improvement is a complex thing. Whilst some seem to believe it can be done almost overnight and have even got some great examples to share, for most of the rest of us, it is a long slog which t...
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August 27, 2024 at 6:18 AM
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This is shocking and violence towards women. 👿👿#WomenEd
I grew up in a form of fundamentalism that taught “the sound of a woman’s voice is obscene”.

The thing they want is for us to forget Afghan women, forget that they have voices and stories and thoughts and even individuality.

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Afghanistan’s Taliban bans the sound of women’s voices | CNN
Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers are cracking down on the sound of women’s voices in public, under a strict new set of vice and virtue laws under the Islamist regime.
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August 25, 2024 at 7:52 PM