Leah Crawford
Leah Crawford has 15 years’ experience as a local authority English inspector and adviser, working across both the primary and secondary phases, and now leads the Thinktalk education consultancy. She is an associate tutor on King’s College London’s Let’s Think in English cognitive acceleration programme and also works in support of a European Erasmus project on the assessment of thinking skills.
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Publications by Leah Crawford
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On writing critical argument about literature, or…’the essay’
December 19 2018A good friend of mine had been coaching a young English teacher. He had just taken on a whole school responsibility. We will call him Jim. Committed and excited as Jim was to develop in a new direction, through coaching, he realised that he did not want to lose a focus on developing his subject […]
On the power of story for school leadership
September 06 2018Once upon a time there were three English teachers. They worked hard, cared for their students and their colleagues and over time were grateful to receive promotions. But they never stopped reading stories. In leadership positions, they were asked to make judgements of their colleagues and of teachers and leaders in other schools. Quality assurance […]