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Along with being a primary school teacher and leader, blogging is where this all started for Aidan. If it wasn't for his passion for writing and sharing his learning and experiences, he wouldn't be working as an education consultant with schools across the country today. Shared best practice should be available to all and here on the Aidan Severs Consulting blog you can get ideas for making a difference in your own school. The blog is also a great place to learn exactly the kind of work that Aidan can partner with your school on.
Helping Staff To Adopt Your New Curriculum
Having staff on-board with curriculum innovations is crucial to their success. In this post we explore 5 steps towards making this happen.
Aidan Severs
Jun 27, 20225 min read
How To Give Feedback To Your Workmates
Giving feedback to your colleagues who might also be your friends can be daunting. Here are 10 tips for managing those conversations.
Aidan Severs
Jun 13, 20224 min read
Monitoring Your Subject 101
This post offers some starting tips for subject leaders who want to find out more about what's going on in their subject.
Aidan Severs
Jun 6, 20224 min read
Curriculum Drivers: Have You Got Too Many?
Every curriculum is driven by certain principles; sometimes there are too many drivers, making curriculum delivery difficult.
Aidan Severs
May 23, 20225 min read
How To Achieve Both Curriculum Cohesion And Teacher Autonomy
Not that long ago, back when I was a teacher and before I had any SLT responsibilities, I worked in a brilliant school where we teachers had a lot of autonomy. Sure, there too existed many structures to ensure accountability, but we also had the freedom to make many decisions for ourselves. One such area of liberty was in curriculum planning. I struggle now to remember what was actually on the school's long term plan but I do remember half-termly after-school planning meeti
Aidan Severs
Apr 25, 20225 min read
Teacher Wellbeing: The Three Things You Need
Teachers need three things to ensure good wellbeing: competence, autonomy and relatedness. Here's how schools can provide them.
Aidan Severs
Apr 21, 20223 min read
The Patient School Leader
School leaders' patience (an essential of the job) can be developed by wisely overlooking things, by speaking gently and by remaining humble
Aidan Severs
Apr 18, 20224 min read
School Leadership: Achieving Unity Through Harmony And The Recognition of Individuality
Each school is a body and every staff member has a part to play in making things work. Great school leaders bring about harmonious working.
Aidan Severs
Apr 13, 20223 min read
School Leadership: Hard or Complex?
Being a school leader is complex and therefore is difficult to do. When the job is becoming hard, the complexity needs to be reduced.
Aidan Severs
Mar 5, 20223 min read
From Paper to Practice: Beyond Curriculum Intent, and Into Implementation (Part 3)
Before reading this, make sure you've caught up on the prior blog posts in the series: Part 1 Part 2 Curriculum Implementation: Learning From Mis-Implementation Mis-implementation will occur. It’s what you do after it’s occured that really matters. All of the previously-mentioned parts of the implementation process present the risk of things not going to plan. Some undesirable things happen that weren’t even considered during the planning phase. When I arrived at my last sc
Aidan Severs
Feb 10, 20225 min read
From Paper to Practice: Beyond Curriculum Intent, and Into Implementation (Part 2)
Before reading this, make sure you've caught up on the first blog post in the series: Part 1 Curriculum Implementation: Getting Implementation Right By... The good news is, that you as head teachers will already be doing everything that you need to do in order for your curriculum implementation to be successful. You are already providing training to staff on a variety of matters. You are already giving staff planning time. You are already supporting in the development of tea
Aidan Severs
Feb 9, 202212 min read
From Paper to Practice: Beyond Curriculum Intent, and Into Implementation (Part 1)
The curriculum (intent) is done! Many schools are now in the position where, after a significant drive from Ofsted, and the realisation that the wider curriculum needed strengthening, their curriculum is all down on paper, and ready to be delivered by teachers. On the paper work, all the Is are dotted, and all the Ts crossed, and the shiny new curriculum has made its way into the curriculum guidance document that you hope against all hopes that teachers, in amongst their busy
Aidan Severs
Feb 8, 20226 min read
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