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📝 Weekly Report #20

I've tried to focus my time this week on improving my own writing. I watched a really good video on YouTube, link below, that forced me to reflect on my own writing. I recognise that my weekly reports may have some good ideas in however I need to ensure they are interesting add useful to the reader. No one is bothered by hearing about what I've learnt, they are more interested in how it can affect themselves. I've recognised that my weekly report has been a really nice space for me to journal each week and put ideas on paper but I want to start making them leap to putting higher quality content out there. 

I'm going to put more thought into my own writing so that my actual blog posts are useful and interesting to the reader. Fingers crossed, they then start to change how the reader thinks and acts.

🔊 Listen:
Bear Grylls on High performance podcast. Write out your goals, embrace failure and learn from it to achieve success, do your best, set an example for others 100% of the time not just the 10 mins someone is observing you. Never give up muscle has got to be trained, you must go through failure to reap the rewards at the other end. Listen to him speak here. 

🔊 Listen: 
Ruth Ashbee talking curriculum on the GLT book club podcast. Her book ahs greatly influenced some of the curriculum conversations we are currently having at our school. Listen here. 

📚 Read: 
James Clear writing about Lewins equation. Behaviour is a function of the person in the environment. Environment greatly influences the habits we build. Read it here. 

📚 Read: 
Bruce Robertson giving 8 tips for how a headteacher can improve behaviour in their school. Read them here. 

📺 Watch:
It's a bit of a long one but Larry McEnerney is a fantastic speaker and has made me reflect on my own writing. Watch him talk about how to write effectively here. 
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