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Green Day, The Stone Roses & Confidence in School Leadership.

Bands by approximate album sales: Green Day - 75 million The Stone Roses - 4.6 million. Not so long ago, in the year 2002 (a year which pretends to be 23 years ago - the liar) I attended what was looking back a far more consequential house party than I realised at the time.  As the evening dragged on a seventeen year old me found myself talking to two older attendees one was eighteen the other probably twenty-two - which of course meant by dint of the having needed to shave for longer than I had meant I bestowed upon them a gravitas and wisdom looking back neither truly deserved. The twenty-two year old was talking at length as to why Pink Floyd were the greatest band ever (you'll notice I left them out of the title) whilst the eighteen year old was explaining great confidence and self assurance why a band, at the time I'd not heard of, called the Stone Roses were one of the greatest bands in musical history. I have a vivid memory of nervously trying to join the conversation wi...
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A tale of two Job Centres.

A tale of two Job Centres or: How going back to my moral purpose has reinvigorated my outlook. I've never made much of a secret how much I love my job. I'm well aware of how insufferable I can be in that regard. However, just coming into lockdown back in March this passion was starting to become unfocused. Reaching a point in my career were the next steps seemed a bit vague, trying to map this out took up a lot of my thinking. To the extent that some other areas of my work became perfunctory. I knew it: I knew it was wrong and I knew this was draining me.  Over the summer I was fortunate enough to be able to spend sometime reflecting on my vision and values: what is actually important to me? Ultimately, what am I in all this for? It was this thinking that took me back to two job centre visits in 2012 when I was signing on. In that summer, I had arrived back in England after spending a few years teaching English in Korea. With no job lined up, I signed on at Brombrough job centr...
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