Our January magazine has landed!

The January edition of Education Executive magazine is now live and ready to read!

Happy new year! I hope you all had a wonderful break over Christmas and have entered the new year feeling recharged, motivated and full of optimism (and probably full of cheese and chocolate too!) The start of a new year is a great time to set goals and resolutions with a positive mindset, but it can also be a tough time of year with a post-Christmas comedown combined with rainy, dark, days. The SBL community is a great support system to have, so reach out on Twitter using the hashtags #sbltwitter and #sblconnect to link up with your fellow colleagues and share your successes, challenges or just a funny a GIF to lift the January blues!

Instead of feeling blue, we kickstart the first issue of the year with green in mind. After a year-long series focusing on each part of the Eco Schools Award, this January issue features the final article from Helen Burge who hands responsibility over to you; her articles over the last 12 months have given you all the tools you need to achieve sustainable success in your school.

In the second article in his series on winemakers and organisational leadership, David Carne explores why both SBLs and winemakers have curiosity, creativity and time-management in common and, with the new year in mind, Laura Williams explains why this is the year to truly start going after what you want, what you desire and what will make you happy.

Sue Birchall is also focused on the new year and she tells us why she is doing her resolutions differently this year. Could this new year also be a good opportunity for a new look? I’m not talking about a new hair colour or a new pair of shoes, but something even more exciting…new school branding! Simon Hepburn shares his ideas on how you can innovate and develop your school’s branding.

Switching to all things ICT, Neil Limbrick discusses how best to evaluate your IT provision and Nigel Milligan explains how you can automate your admin to save yourself some much-needed time.
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