Principal @CognitaSchools | MBA Educational Leadership @CEL_IOE | Author of #ImpactBook and #CultureBook

Joined August 2011
A year ago, I switched from Wordpress to Substack for blog sharing. 115 posts later and writing still helps me to figure out what I think about school leadership. Thanks for reading! mrnickhart.substack.com/
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✍ NEW ON SUBSTACK ✍ I'm pairing something old with something new. From the archives: Curriculum leadership: the spotlight and the guardian New this week: Disciplinary knowledge in primary And new this month from the #LeadershipHandbook: Building hidden leadership knowledge
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Disciplinary knowledge in primary mrnickhart.substack.com/p/di…
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Trust might be the most important condition to cultivate in our schools. In this #LeadershipHandbook post, I looked at the wider literature on relational trust and proposed a unified model. mrnickhart.substack.com/p/le…
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✍ NEW ON SUBSTACK ✍ I'm pairing something old and something new From the archives: Rethinking the foundation subjects New this week: Disciplinary knowledge is not the same in every subject And new this month from the #LeadershipHandbook: Building hidden leadership knowledge
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✍ NEW ON SUBSTACK ✍ I'm pairing something old with something new. From the archives: The stories we tell | Curriculum design New this week: Disciplinary knowledge 7 years on And new this month from the #LeadershipHandbook: Building hidden leadership knowledge
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Today, we launched our Education Leader's Handbook for curriculum reform. It provides step by step guidance and diagnostic checklists for curriculum writers, whether at systems level or in schools. The report draws on evidence and experience working across systems to provide something new and hopefully very practically useful for those wanting to implement a knowledge rich curriculum. learningfirst.com/research/c…
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For the next month, the #LeadershipHandbook post on relational trust is free. Trust might be the most important condition for schools to thrive. ▪️ Downloadable slide deck of key concepts ▪️ Downloadable tools and templates for school leaders lnkd.in/dGPFecGw
Each July for the last few years, I've published a #LeadershipHandbook. It started as a collection of what I thought was important for leaders to know about and included various models, research digests and ways of thinking about school leadership that I had created. 1/7
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Knowing your school | Conversations worth having mrnickhart.substack.com/p/kn…
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✍ NEW ON SUBSTACK ✍ I'm pairing something old from the Wordpress archive with something new. From the archives: Knowing your school | Conversations worth having New this month from the #LeadershipHandbook: Building hidden leadership knowledge
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Don't leave your leadership development to chance... ⬇️
✍ NEW ON SUBSTACK ✍ I'm pairing something old from the Wordpress archive with something new. From the archives: Poor proxies for leadership expertise New this week: Don't leave your leadership development to chance And on the #LeadershipHandbook: Lesson observations
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