I’ve noticed that AI has become a regular talking point in coaching conversations with heads. I was really impressed the other day as I listened to a head tell me how he and his staff are leveraging it, among other things, as a tool to enhance effective feedback to pupils. The creative possibilities seem to keep coming, but I can’t help wondering what we might be losing as AI occupies a bigger and bigger space in school life and in the minds of school leaders. The context of shrinking...

I was coaching a lady recently who had moved school and into a new role as a head of department. She was feeling a bit like a fish out of...

‘OMG, what have I done!’ I thought, during my first meeting with the Trust Head of Finance after taking up a role as a head within a MAT,...