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The extra dimension Cut bureaucracy for your colleagues. Declutter classrooms, offices and staffroom – secure a deal with a skip company. Less is more – be concise. Remember the following: the Lord’s Prayer - 54 words. The Ten Commandments - 297 words. The American Declaration of Independence – 300 words. The EEC Directive for exporting duck eggs – 26,911 words. Bottle the teachers who are young at heart – infect everyone with their talents. Ensure a variety of skills and intelligences in staff you appoint. Grow your own great people. Certainly look to recruit people who are brighter than you are. Stick close to your values – and be occasionally sceptical of them. Be explicit about the ethical principles upon which you lead. Have confidence in your moral commitment, instinct and intuitions – and have someone to restrain you, probably matron or the head groundsman. Enjoy confronting authority and taking risks – practise the Jesuit principle of management, namely that it’s easier to beg forgiveness than seek permission. Say ‘no’ to a directive and that you believe instead in phyletic gradualism. Thrive on accountability – and occasional chaos. Remember the old maxim (misquoting Kipling) that if you have kept your head when everyone around you is losing theirs, you probably haven’t quite understood what’s going on. Keep in mind the big picture – someone has to. Remember the ‘third eye’ - challenge orthodoxies even if you then find out why some things are orthodox; it’s worth the journey. Communicate, communicate, communicate – and time the communications well. Timing is all. If colleagues disagree with you, they’ll say you haven’t been communicating properly. Tell good stories – people remember them. Stories define who you are in the minds of others, for better or worse. Humour works, not sarcasm. Avoid delusions of grandeur – for everyone’s sake, be reasonably predictable. Perception is all. You’re paid handsomely to smile. And be a great teacher! Don’t assume rationality on the part of the people you are dealing with – accept the idea that there are multiple perceptions of every situation. Learn to live with shades of grey. Spare a thought for Bloom – knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, evaluation, synthesis. Not everyone is as capable as you pretend to be of moving upwards through Bloom’s taxonomy of thinking. Some will get stuck half-way. Pace yourself – excellence is not an act but a habit. Focus on a limited number of objectives at a time. Secure a culture of co-workers, not hierarchies. Read Seneca and the Stoics – strive for moral and intellectual perfection. Get the staff to read widely. Be curious and find time for our own interests. Take Tuesdays off – if you’re going to take ‘dedicated headteacher time’ off-site, don’t do it on a Friday or the staff will think you’re off to the ski slopes for the weekend. Learn to develop your inner sloth. Rest your heartbeat somehow. This article is an extract from Roy Blatchford’s new book, The Restless School. Roy is Director of The National Education Trust. The book was published in April 2014 by John Catt Educational, priced £12.99. See advert on page 78 for a special promotional offer on this book Summer 2014 | 57
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