🌍 Join school leaders in the Lean Monitoring Program. A 12-week program to know whether your improvement work is on track. Starts 16 February 2027. Secure your place 👉 buff.ly/WKR6u3b #schoolleadership
Simon Breakspear, PhD
@simonbreakspear.bsky.social
I help educational leaders sustainably improve schools. Adjunct Senior Lecturer UNSW. Director, Strategic Schools. https://simonbreakspear.com/ Subscribe: http://eepurl.com/g07cuH
☕ When you're making a cup of tea, what's the first thing you do? Put the kettle on - it's the one step you can't hurry. Every improvement plan has kettle tasks too: slow to boil, and next year's progress can't start until you finish them. 👉 buff.ly/97OGZv6 #schoolleadership
Find the task everything else is waiting on
When you’re tired, you lose your judgement before your work ethic. Find the one task that decides next year’s improvement - the one nobody is chasing you for.
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🚨 The Lean Monitoring Program begins on 16 February. Three focused workshops. Predict, Collect, Analyse. Learn more here 👉 buff.ly/WKR6u3b #LeanMonitoring #EducationalLeadership #SchoolLeadership
Most of the changes we design for our teams are like Ottolenghi recipes. What they can fit into a real week looks more like Jamie Oliver. The changes that stick aren't the impressive ones - they're the ones simple enough for busy people to repeat. Read more here 👉 buff.ly/HKsTuXl #schoolleadership
Design change that fits a real week, not your best one
The outcome data comes late; the early signals come sooner. How school leaders can spot “rumble strips” and course correct towards the impact they’re after.
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🚨 The Lean Monitoring Program begins on 16 February. Three focused workshops. Predict, Collect, Analyse. Work on a real improvement priority from your own school, using field-tested, practical tools. Learn more here 👉 buff.ly/WKR6u3b #LeanMonitoring #EducationalLeadership #SchoolLeadership
Every school leader needs the skills to engage, communicate & give feedback. That’s the focus of the People Leader Program. Cohort begins 2 March 2027. 🔗 buff.ly/9MuNwhT #PeopleLeaderProgram #SchoolLeadership #EducationalLeadership
🌍 Join school leaders in the Lean Monitoring Program. A 12-week program with practical tools to tell whether your improvement work is on track. Starts 16 February 2027. Secure your place 👉 buff.ly/WKR6u3b #LeanMonitoring #SchoolLeaders
Learn how to track the early signals that your strategies are working, or quietly drifting, and adjust while you still can - so you can get the impact you want. Lean Monitoring program. Starts 16 February 2027. 👉 buff.ly/ziON1Ct #LeanMonitoring #SchoolLeadership
Struggling to lead your staff effectively? The People Leader Program gives you practical tools to do it well. Cohort starts 2 March 2027. Register today 👉 buff.ly/KacuIU7 #PeopleLeaderProgram #SchoolLeadership #EducationalLeadership
Results that matter take a year to show up in the data. Lean Monitoring teaches you to read the early signals long before then. Cohort begins 16 February 2027. 🔗 buff.ly/ziON1Ct #SchoolLeadership
📅 Mark your calendars: 2 March 2027. That’s when our next People Leader Program begins! Registration is now open. 👉 buff.ly/2Olr8uk #PeopleLeaderProgram #SchoolLeadership #EducationalLeadership
Your team is pouring energy into improvement. But is it working? For most teams the honest answer is "we hope so." Lean Monitoring helps you know for sure. Starts 16 February 2027. Learn more 👉 buff.ly/ziON1Ct #SchoolLeadership
Term 1 PD sorted in one click. Instead of scrambling to plan a whole-staff day, register once and it's done - a facilitated workshop, live online 27 or 28 Jan 2027, on AI in Schools: Who’s Doing the Thinking?. One rego, your whole staff, a big job off your list. buff.ly/xrhVwCP #AIinSchools
When did your team last run a project retrospective? This is a great tool to try - a structured 25-min session to review your actions, learn from what worked, and get better every cycle. buff.ly/LYem9yA #SchoolLeadership #EducationalLeadership
Learn how to track the early signals that your strategies are working, or quietly drifting, and adjust while you still can - so you can get the impact you want. Lean Monitoring Program. Starts 16 February 2027. 👉 buff.ly/j6t7B5d #LeanMonitoring #EducationalLeadership #SchoolLeadership
Get answers to the hard questions around AI in schools. Evidence and frameworks to navigate a time when AI is creeping into every classroom and role. Join my whole-staff online workshop; choose your date 27 or 28 Jan 2027. buff.ly/xrhVwCP #AIinSchools #Educationalleadership
📢 Registrations are open for the Lean Monitoring Program. A 12-week program for leadership teams who want to know that their work is on track. Starts 16 February 2027. Join here 👉 buff.ly/j6t7B5d #LeanMonitoring #SchoolLeadership
An oldie but a goodie - A podcast series about practical ideas on education change, leadership, and enhancing the long-term impact of our schools. Simon in conversation with Prof. Michael Fullan. simonbreakspear.com/fullan/ #EdLeadership #SchoolImprovement
Before launching an initiative, imagine it has failed and ask why. A pre-mortem surfaces risks early, while you can still do something about them. simonbreakspear.com/pre-mortem/ #DecisionMaking #SchoolImprovement
How to run a pre-mortem
Why you need to run a pre-mortem on your big project
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When AI does more of the work, who's doing the thinking? Start the school year with the conversation every staffroom needs to have. Join me live online, 27 or 28 Jan 2027. All staff welcome 👉 buff.ly/xrhVwCP #AIinSchools #Educationalleadership
🚀 Registrations are now open for the Lean Monitoring Program. A 12-week program for leaders who want to know their improvement work is on track, not just hope it is. Starts 16 February 2027. Learn more 👉 simonbreakspear.com/lean-monitor... #LeanMonitoring #EducationalLeadership #SchoolLeadership
Term 1 PD sorted in one click. Instead of scrambling to plan a whole-staff day, register once and it's done - a facilitated workshop, live online 27 or 28 Jan 2027, on AI in Schools: Who’s Doing the Thinking? One rego, your whole staff, a big job off your list. buff.ly/xrhVwCP #AIinSchools
Results that matter take a year to show up in the data. Lean Monitoring teaches you to read the early signals long before then. Cohort begins 16 February 2027. 🔗 simonbreakspear.com/lean-monitor... #LeanMonitoring #EducationalLeadership #SchoolLeadership
Have you tried The Retrospective? A simple, structured reflection at the end of a cycle helps teams learn from what just happened and then carry those lessons into what's next. buff.ly/EMgYlq5 #TeamLearning #EducationalLeadership
The Retrospective
Collective reflection, evaluation & learning that can inform the next stage of your work.
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📅 AI in Schools: Who's Doing the Thinking? A facilitated whole-staff workshop with Simon Breakspear. Wed 27 January 2027, live via Zoom, or run it yourself anytime in Term 1 with the recording. buff.ly/xrhVwCP #AIinEducation #SchoolLeadership #EducationalLeadership #StaffDay
Ask a room of leaders why they dodge a hard conversation and the list is always the same. But the missing piece isn't nerve - it's structure. 4 Steps: Frame it, name it, explain the impact, create motion together. The key throughout: be specific. Read more here - buff.ly/fR2Uijt
🧠 AI in Schools: Who's doing the thinking? Start the school year with a whole-staff conversation every school now needs to have. Live online 27 Jan or run it from the recording. buff.ly/GUmgr4u #AIinEducation #SchoolLeadership #EducationalLeadership #StaffDay
Sustainable improvement doesn't mean sprinting endlessly. Working at a natural pace protects energy and keeps teams effective over the long haul. simonbreakspear.com/27-working-a... #SchoolLeadership #Wellbeing #SustainableLeadership
27. Working at a natural pace
Learn how to work in the right zone of improvement - challenged but not overloaded.
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🚀 Registrations are now open for the Lean Monitoring Program. A 12-week program for leaders who want to know their improvement work is on track, not just hope it is. Starts 16 February 2027. Learn more 👉 simonbreakspear.com/lean-monitor... #LeanMonitoring #EducationalLeadership #SchoolLeadership
🧠 AI in Schools: Who's Doing the Thinking? A whole-staff workshop. Live online 27 Jan or run it from the recording. One registration covers your whole staff. buff.ly/GUmgr4u #AIinEducation #SchoolLeadership #EducationalLeadership #StaffDay