Edssential article from @LeadingLearner :
#SLTChat is providing a whole raft of great issues to blog on and I’ve picked up another one this weekend proposed by @ChrisHildrew. He posed the question, “What single piece of advice would you offer to someone taking up a senior leadership post in September?”
The chance of me limiting myself to one piece of advice is negligible but I do have some thoughts. This February we attracted the largest and most outstanding field of applicants, for two Assistant Headships, that I have ever seen in my time at St. Mary’s. In taking a number of candidates around the College, prior to the closing date for applications (by the way it is a really good idea to go and have a look at a school and meet the headteacher when you are applying for this type of post), I was asked various questions. I tried to give them honest and frank answers so they could determine whether St. Mary’s was a place