The Governing Chatters Podcast

Creating a culture of development

In our latest episode of Governing Chatters, Steve Edmonds discusses staff development with Mandy Coalter, Founder of Talent Architects and Gareth Alcott, Director of Strategic partnerships at the National College of Education. In a thoughtful discussion, Steve, Mandy and Gareth explore the key points in establishing a culture of CPD within a school or Trust, how to make the most of the CPD budget and how the culture of CPD should fit into a wider talent management strategy. They also look at how you can use the appraisal as a force for good and the vital role of collaboration and peer learning.

If you would like to find out more about our speakers, you can follow them on Twitter:

@NGASteveE

@MandyCoalter

@GalcottGareth

Further reading

If you want to read more about some of the topics we discussed in the podcast, you can find more below:

Talent Architects; how to make your school a great place to work by Mandy Coalter https://www.talentarchitects.org.uk/book/

Inside-out and Downside-up, Steve Munby & Michael Fullan

Amazon link to Collaborative Professionalism Book, Andy Hargreaves and Michael T. Connor

Developing Great Teaching, TDT

Executive leader appraisal a guide for governing boards appraising headteachers and CEOs, NGA

CEO template job description, Forum Strategy and NGA

Whitepaper: The Apprenticeship Levy and Schools, NCE

A guide to apprenticeships for the school workforce, DfE

Skills for Jobs: Lifelong Learning for Opportunity and Growth, DfE

Standards for Teachers’ PD, DfE

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New Year, familiar challenges

In our latest episode of Governing Chatters, Emma Knights is joined by Sam Henson, Emma Balchin and Steve Edmonds as they discuss the challenges faced by schools as they start the new term. Download the episode now as we discuss wellbeing for leaders, staff and pupils and how you can best support each other as well as the challenge of accountability in the current climate.

We also explore how to balance the urgent and the important with a particular focus on the upcoming Governance Leadership forums where we will be focusing on NGA's Greener Governance campaign and the role governors and trustees have in taking forward COP26 targets. 

Your priorities for schools in 2021 and 2022

Join NGA's Director of Policy and Information, Sam Henson along with Fiona Fearon, Nina Sharma and Megan Tate as they discuss the findings from the 2021 annual governance survey, interpret the data and look ahead to the challenges of 2021

Increasing participation in Governance

In our latest episode we are joined by three Chairs and Governors to discuss how you can increase participation in governance and why diversity on boards is important. We explore how boards have diversified their membership and supported new governors and trustees when they join.

Start of the year - lots to do

After a break over the summer, Governing Chatters is back. In the first episode of the autumn term, Emma Knights, Sam Henson and Steve Edmonds discuss the big issues facing you this term.

They discuss plans for school returns, covid recovery and recap on the Ofsted framework for inspection. Alongside this, they explore the role of skills audits, look ahead to the rest of the autumn term’s events and releases. 

To access the resources we discussed in the show:

Skills Audit is available here: www.nga.org.uk/skills-audit

Model Code of conduct is available here: https://www.nga.org.uk/codeofconduct

Ofsted webinar is available here: www.nga.org.uk/webinars

 

Making pupil mental wellbeing a priority

In this month’s podcast, Emma Knights, Steve Edmonds and Emma Balchin looked at pupil wellbeing, what do we mean by it and what does the current data tell us. What are the key elements for building a whole school culture that supports pupils and engages them directly?  

We also explored the importance of induction and CPD in supporting new and experienced governors to make an impact and deliver the best education for their pupils.   

If you want to watch the webinar on Pupil well-being, you can see it on NGA’s webinars page, www.nga.org.uk/webinars

Members can download the information sheet on pupil mental wellbeing here.

 

Schools and their communities

Following the launch of NGA's latest report, MATs Moving Forward, we look at the key issues of the report and how they apply across all schools. 

The role of clerks and other governance professionals in developing and maintaining effective working relationships

In our latest episode of Governing Chatters we have a fascinating discussion with four outstanding clerks who give us their insight on how you manage relationships, foster a culture of challenge and enable effective governance remotely.

Ethical Leadership and how it works

In this episode we are delighted to be joined by some of the key figures involved in the development of the Ethical Leadership framework and the Pathfinder project.

We’ll be talking to them about how they have used the pathfinder project in their school(s) and the impact the work has had.

 

Farewell to 2020

Christmas is a time for reflection, today we are going to look back on what we have learnt from the seminars, reflect on where we are with Covid and the impact on the sector. We are also going to look at what we have learnt from such a strange year and with a sense of optimism(?) look ahead to what 2021 might contain.  

 

Thanks to Pixabay (https://pixabay.com/) and DL Sounds (https://www.dl-sounds.com) for the tracks used on this recording.