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Geoff Barton
Headteacher
King Edward VI School, Suffolk
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1. 3 stages of headship so far
2. Power quotes
3. 8 final hints
4. Questions and discussion
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POWER
QUOTES
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If everything seems under
control, you're just not going
fast enough.
Mario Andretti
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2
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Only dead fish go with the
river
(James Dyson, inventor)
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3
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Failure teaches you
everything. Success
teaches you nothing
Irvine Welsh, writer
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4
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Courage is the art of being the
only one who knows you’re
scared to death
(Earl Wilson, baseball player)
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5
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Finding good players is easy.
Getting them to play as a team is
another story
Casey Stengall, Baseball player
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6
We should measure what we
value rather than valuing what
we can measure
John McBeath
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7
“Don’t bring me problems; bring
me solutions”
&
“Don’t underestimate the power
of an announcement”
Margaret Thatcher
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8 HINTS
Polish your acting skills
Be headteacher, not chief executive
Know your principles
It’s judgement, rather than experience
that counts
Be unnervingly visible
Vision collapses without the detail
Nourish your ideals - Barber, Fullan, &
Myers et al
It’s a job
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BARTON …
Geoff Barton
Headteacher
King Edward VI School, Suffolk
You can download this PowerPoint from
www.geoffbarton.co.uk
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