Trust Teacher Development & Curriculum Lead, GMET | Deputy Chair,TrustCPDLeads | Speaker,co-Auth ‘The Trouble With English’, ‘Love the One You’re With-Why Teachers Stay & What We Can Learn From Them’. | LeadingTrusts100 | Running, Reading, Red | Views Own.
Sam Gibbs
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A week in with KS3: The Ambitious Years. @samgibbs.bsky.social review: "Every young person has a right to an education that is rich in knowledge, high in challenge and rooted in belonging. That is not a luxury for some children; it is an entitlement for all." open.substack.com/pub/marymyat...
Mary Myatt
Exclusive: Headteacher Andrew O’Neill will remain as the DfE’s school policy adviser after being seconded for a second year
This took a long , long time to put together and it was great to see the (largely) sensible debate it prompted over the month after it was published a few months back.
The scientific debate is still where it was, but the cultural debate has certainly become even more polarised.
Lovely to have this piece in TES today. Thank you to @jonsevers.bsky.social for the encouragement and support 😊
"If we believe that teaching changes lives, we must sound like a profession that believes in itself." @samgibbs.bsky.social in @tesmagazine.bsky.social : www.tes.com/magazine/ana...
Not the first paper written with AI, but I've tried to be unusually open about how.
The full methodology is in there, not buried. It's also about something real: coaching schools as organisations, not just the individuals in them.
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All we're going to learn is that rich and powerful men of all political and cultural stripes exist in a murky world where bad stuff happens without ever knowing who did specifically what.
"Every young person has a right to an education that is rich in knowledge, high in challenge and rooted in belonging. That is not a luxury for some children; it is an entitlement for all."
@samgibbs.bsky.social on KS3: The Ambitious Years 🙏
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Thrilled that we have been able to contribute a case study to the government's White Paper for schools. @gmetrust.org So proud that @trustcpdleads.bsky.social is also recognised for its contribution to sector-led improvement.
Is your trust having difficulty recruiting teachers? One answer lies in ‘growing your own’, says MAT development lead @samgibbs.bsky.social – and this is how to do it
Tes magazine
Naming a missing practice in school improvement. A free, open-access working paper from Work Collaborative by Shane Leaning.
"It’s important that I tell my children how much I love my work because they will need to understand why that work takes time away from them. I also want to show them that work can be a passion and not just an income."
@samgibbs.bsky.social with our June 'How I Lead'
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Jill Berry
In our How I Lead series, we ask education leaders to reflect on their careers, their experience and their leadership philosophy. This month we talk to Sam Gibbs, curriculum and development lead at Gr...
Headteacher of All Saints Catholic College in London was first seconded to the Department for Education last summer to bring 'frontline expertise' to policymaking
Positive ITT data should be welcomed by the sector - and used to shape a narrative about why it’s a great profession to build on ‘fragile’ green shoots, says Sam Gibbs
Developing support staff to step into teaching roles is an effective recruitment solution, writes Sam Gibbs, but the challenge lies in creating the right pathways to let talent grow and flourish
Buy KS3 The Ambitious Years: Why Years 7-9 matter more than we think by Myatt, Mary (ISBN: 9780995668720) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
Have social media and smartphones ‘rewired’ today’s teenagers? Jonathan Haidt argues they have in 'The Anxious Generation' – but critics say that banning phones won’t bring the salvation he promises
