Headship After Hours

By Paul Collin

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This podcast is for headteachers, executive heads and trust leaders who want to lead well without losing themselves in the process. I'm Paul Collin, former head and leadership coach. I talk about isolation, pressure, governing bodies, staff dynamics, attendance and the inner work of staying grounded. I also run a funded Senior Attendance & Leadership Resilience Check for heads in complex schools — for when attendance feels fragile and rests on too few people. Apply now → https://atrejwhi.formester.com/f/hwL9GCyin/

Episode Date
Why More Headteachers Should Write a Book | Lucy McCarraher M.B.E
Nov 06, 2026
Why Staff CPD Isn't Changing Classroom Practice
Oct 30, 2026
The Hidden Workload Problem School Leaders Keep Missing | Shawn Vanderhoven
Oct 23, 2026
Your School Attendance Problem Might Not Be About Attendance
Oct 16, 2026
What Schools Still Get Wrong About Great Teaching | Tom Sherrington
Oct 09, 2026
What Great Headteachers Refuse to Accept | Dame Alison Peacock
Oct 02, 2026
Does Your School Have an Attendance System — Or Just a Person?
Sep 25, 2026
Why Great Headteachers Know When to Slow Down | Rob Connolly
Sep 18, 2026
What Strong Headteachers Do in the First 10 Days
Sep 11, 2026
Why Behaviour Strategies Fail When Children Don’t Feel Safe | Neil Moggan
Sep 04, 2026
When Mainstream School Isn’t Working | Hugh Viney
Aug 28, 2026
How Great Headteachers Build School Culture
Aug 21, 2026
The Part of Headship Nobody Prepares You For
Aug 14, 2026
Jack Mallaby: Stop Making Pupils Fit the System
Aug 07, 2026
A Few Families Can Shape Your Attendance Data
Jul 31, 2026
Schools Remember How Leadership Feels
Jul 17, 2026
The Monday Morning Attendance Trap
Jul 10, 2026
Pressure Doesn't Break Schools. It Changes Leaders.
Jul 03, 2026
Steve Willshaw: What Secondary Schools Miss About Reading
Jun 26, 2026
The School Always Knows
Jun 19, 2026
Behaviour and Attendance Follow Adult Behaviour
Jun 12, 2026
Work-Life Balance Is Lying to Headteachers
Jun 05, 2026
Ross McGill on Teacher Workload, Leadership & What Schools Still Get Wrong
May 29, 2026
Rowena Hicks: Why School Staff Burn Out
May 22, 2026
Attendance Doesn’t Improve Through Systems Alone
May 16, 2026
Attendance Is a Connection Problem, Not a Compliance Problem
May 09, 2026
Mary Myatt: What Schools Still Get Wrong with KS3 Transition.
May 01, 2026
Control vs Authority: The Leadership Shift That Changes Everything
Apr 24, 2026
When Staff Confidence Drops, Everything Gets Harder
Apr 17, 2026
Headship Is Not a Time Problem — It’s an Energy Problem
Apr 10, 2026
The School Didn’t Change First — I Did
Apr 04, 2026
When Everything Feels Like It’s Slipping in Headship
Mar 26, 2026
Schools Are Not CAMHS
Mar 20, 2026
Why Attendance Problems Are Actually Culture Problems
Mar 13, 2026
High Performers in Headship: The Isolation Nobody Talks About
Mar 07, 2026
Leadership Quietly Reduces Your Safe Circle
Mar 06, 2026
The Biggest Threat to Headship Isn’t Pressure
Feb 27, 2026
Stop Measuring Yourself by Exhaustion
Feb 26, 2026
Imposter Syndrome in Headship: Stop Performing Leadership
Feb 19, 2026
The 5 Signals That Are Shaping Your School Culture
Feb 18, 2026
Pressure Is Inevitable. Panic Is Leadership.
Feb 18, 2026
Compliance Is Not Commitment in Headship
Feb 17, 2026
What You Recognise Becomes Your School Culture
Feb 17, 2026
Exhausted Leaders Create Exhausted Schools
Feb 13, 2026
Headship Shouldn’t Feel Like Survival
Feb 13, 2026
Why the Old Model of Headship Doesn’t Work Anymore
Feb 13, 2026
The Reality of Headship: Why It Feels So Isolating
Feb 12, 2026
The Loneliness of Headship: What UK Headteachers Don’t Say
Feb 12, 2026