A Canon: Seminal Writing by Teachers

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2	Staff Culture: seminal articles by teachers
3	The intent here is to collate, curate and summarise the ideas that are most valuable for thinking about staff culture.
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5			19+ seminal articles by teachers on staff culture
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7	1	Jen Barker & Tom Rees	7 persistent problems of school leadership; school leader expertise; codifying leadership knowledge	Seven problems for school leaders are school improvement, curriculum, staff culture, staff development, behaviour, administration and self-management.
8	2	Jonny Utterly & John Tomsett	Putting staff first	We should make staff learning our number one priority.
9	3	Kat Howard	Simply talking about wellbeing won't help. Workload perception matters.	We need the right conversations about the right things: will it help learning, without burnout?
10	4	Jo Facer	At what cost?	Let's keep opportunity cost in mind...
11	5	Luke Sparkes	Organisational health	Create cohesion and clarity with overcommunication.
12	6	Carl Hendrik	The McNamara Fallacy and the Problem with Numbers	What's measurable isn't always meaningful; what's meaningful isn't always measurable.
13	7	Greg Ashman	How rubrics fail	Rubrics narrow the focus of a complex domain.
14	8	Louis Everett	What makes a good head of department?	Provide time and space for your teachers to think deeply about their subject.
15	9	Nick Hart	What school leaders need to know about cultural leadership	Combine psychological safety, vulnerability and purpose.
16	10	Harry Fletcher Wood	Teacher learning is just learning; content knowledge	Anticipate what students will struggle with.
17	11	Claire Stoneman	School Visits - and how to make them better	Focus on deep structure and concrete examples.
18	12	Matthew Evans	Substance; Curating a Canon	What should school leaders know and focus on? What evidence do we have to support our claims?
19	13	Sims & Fletcher Wood	CPD mechanisms	CPD should improve staff habits and motivation.
20	14	Ben Riley	The Science of Teacher Expertise: Deliberate Practice	Effective practice combines goals, sequence, guidance, feedback, and mental models for decision-making.
21	15	Jenn Barker	Effective professional development	Purpose, conditions, learning science, habit science and time matter for CPD.
22	16	Ruth Ashbee	More pointable-at-things aren't always best	What's measurable isn't always meaningful; what's meaningful isn't always measurable.
23	17	Nimish Lad	Too Quiet at the top: what happens when school leaders don't say enough	Our staff need us as school leaders to overcommunicate!
24	18	Paul Cline	Nothing New' CPD	Say more than you think you need to. Explain more than you are used to. Repeat yourself more than feels natural.
25	19	Josh Vallance	Integrated CPD	To improve staff habits & buy-in, CPD must be cohesive, well-selected, focused, sustained, given department time, provide quality models, directive coaching and practice.
26		Sarah Cottinghatt	Case-based Development
27		Books	Case-writing
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29		Viviane Robinson	Less Change, More Improvement
30		Matthew Evans	Leaders with substance
31		Becky Allen, Matthew Evans	School Improvement: Next big thing
32		John Tomsett	Put staff first
33		Zoe & Mark Enser	CPD curriculum
34		Nick Hart	School Culture
35		Stuart Lock	ResearchEd Guide to leadership
36		Doug Lemov	Practice Perfect
37		Jo Facer	Simplicity
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