The Teaching Leaders Coaching Journal

Perspectives
CoachEd / November 2015
Sir Harry spoke of his involvement with the Early Years
Collaborative, an initiative bringing together over 800
teachers, social workers , health workers and other
professionals from every local authority with the goal of
making Scotland the best place in the world in which to
grow up. In two years, the stillbirth and infant mortality
rates have decreased by 15%. He assured Fellows that
with bravery and compassion, “You will transform lives.
You will save lives. You will transform society.”
Watch in full here.
Steve Radcliffe
Leadership Expert
In his extensive career, Steve Radcliffe has coached the
heads of some of the world’s biggest companies and
organisations, but insisted there is only one feature
common to all leaders: ambition. This is key, he said, to
his model ‘Future Engage Deliver’ which breaks down
leadership into these three areas or ‘muscles’. Future is
asking ‘What do we want?’ – everyone has this ability,
Radcliffe said, what he calls the ‘imagining muscle’;
Engage is sharing this idea with others so they are
inspired to go on the journey with you; and Deliver is
physically doing it. Radcliffe said every organisation can
base their mission statement on the phrase ‘We are up
to something together’, encapsulating the three
muscles.
Watch in full here.
Geoff Barton
Headteacher and Author
Geoff Barton began his entertaining and informative
address by warning Fellows that they would, by the end
of his speech, receive the secret of literacy. Because 30%
of households in the UK have three or fewer books, he
said, it is the duty of all teachers to model speaking and
listening, reading and writing. He gave some practical
suggestions for doing this, such as implementing reading
communities - followed by structured questions and
conversation - rather than silent reading, and showing
pupils how to do research properly - a necessary skill for
navigating the potentially dangerous virtual world -
rather than leaving them to do so alone.
So, what is the secret of literacy? ”It’s not literacy. It’s
making the implicit explicit, and modelling it. Or we
could just call it teaching.”
Watch in full here.
Geoff Barton
2015 Secondary and Primary Fellows Coaches
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