Monday

Sir Michael Wilshaw argued in this week's TES that the best heads think outside the box. “Don’t be afraid to be slightly maverick,” he said. “Do things out of the ordinary; don’t necessarily be a conformist. Strange is sometimes good. The best heads are often quite odd people - I think I was one of them.”

"You don't have to be crazy to run schools, but....you do. Wilshaw and the eccentricity of leadership