You’re the new Secretary of State / Minister for Education in your respective nation. What are your top three priorities & why? We’ll assume additional funding is a given. But where would you spend it first? #EduSky #networkedchat - ThreadSky

robw40.bsky.social • 182 days ago

You’re the new Secretary of State / Minister for Education in your respective nation.

What are your top three priorities & why?

We’ll assume additional funding is a given.
But where would you spend it first?

#EduSky
#networkedchat

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stevenrd70.bsky.social•182 days ago

1.Quality of leadership because it creates the space for wellbeing of staff and improvement.
2.Quality of teaching as it improves life chances of Learners.
3. Stopping relentless legislation and guidance as the education workforce does not need this unnecessary pressure.

robw40.bsky.social•180 days ago

Like each priority here.
Think conditions for leaders would be equally important. Can’t create the conditions for staff wellbeing & improvement if we’re sacrificing our own as leaders.
Number 3 is massively important. When new legislation / guidance is essential, needs to be clear what it replaces.

stevenrd70.bsky.social•179 days ago

Agree about the conditions for leadership also. We need the right conditions for everyone to thrive.

catrplace.bsky.social•179 days ago

I agree - that’s my thesis 😉😂

xanthippe25.bsky.social•182 days ago

Massive rebuild, repair educational buildings.
Enough resources.
Funded ad hoc leave for educators. No questions asked.

robw40.bsky.social•180 days ago

School estate a huge issue - both in terms of general quality & accessibility.
Interested in funded leave suggestion. Management of it would be challenging, especially for smaller schools.

xanthippe25.bsky.social•180 days ago

I know estate is huge - but quality of teaching and learning is impacted by it all the time, from early years onwards, and accessibility should be built in from the beginning. It's like how Public Health issues affect all of society.
Paid leave aims at increasing agency and decreasing guilt.

robw40.bsky.social•180 days ago

100% agree about buildings.
I really like the concept of the leave suggestion. Knock on with recruitment / retention would be +ve!

catrplace.bsky.social•179 days ago

1. Communicate - be personable, talk to school leaders & listen. Too much is based upon politics rather than reality in schools
2. Collaborate - create systems so that schools can work together to improve replacing top-down bureaucracy
3. Trust - trust the process, system & leaders #Edusky

robw40.bsky.social•178 days ago

Government could do so much more to facilitate productive collaboration. Some of my best personal learning as HT was during collaborative activities across groups of schools.

srcav.bsky.social•181 days ago

Retention - far too many folks leaving. I guess by increasing non contact time and decreasing class sizes to combat workload.

Recruitment - invest in increasing the workforce, look at how private companies attract the top grads for ideas. Advertise, engage more.

PFI - pay off thos contracts.

robw40.bsky.social•180 days ago

Like these.

Retention & recruitment needs a complete re-think IMO. No point investing in the latter if you’re not addressing the drain of existing talent.

PFI contracts a real issue but eye-wateringly expensive to sort out I believe.

lincsexplorer.bsky.social•181 days ago

Children's mental health. Huge numbers of pupils struggling with anxiety, poor attendance etc.
A broader curriculum to include outdoor education.
More time and resources for staff CPD

robw40.bsky.social•180 days ago

Good set of priorities.

The external services required to meet MH needs needs huge investment - capacity simply isn’t there. At the same time, govt would need to address the underlying drivers e.g. poverty.

Curriculum review is essential IMO. Needs to be stripped back as already overloaded.

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