Olevi Blog
How OLEVI changed my view of CPD
We’d been here before, or so we thought. OTP delegate Sarah Butler, Newham Sixth Form College, reflects on her personal professional development journey with OLEVI and how it changed her mind about the impact and effectiveness of CPD. “On hearing that we were to get some professional development through the Outstanding Teacher Programme (OTP), our collective […]
Mastery? Yeah, we covered that.
Chris McGeehan, Jariram Lead OLEVI Facilitator and OLEVI Professional Coach shares how watching a Jujitsu class led him to refect on the role of Mastery in teaching and learning. A lot of people have been talking about mastery recently. There seems to be strong links to the Singapore teaching method. Colleagues who have experienced training […]
Why Senior Leadership Teams need to lead by example
Eddie Hannifan reflects on how a recent Conceptualisation morning with a Senior Leadership Team from across one MAT hit home the absolute value of working hard to make the ‘right thing’ happen. It seems that now, more than ever, everybody simply has too many other things to do; ‘time’ is the word we hear, and […]
To improve or not improve; that is the question
Question: Is there anyone in your organisation who has been given permission, implicitly or explicitly, to stop improving? Eddie Hannifan argues why to ‘improve’ is not a word to be feared, but an essential process required to ensure a culture of high expectations for all, by all, develops and grows.