Back to Plan your Day 2023 – Kerry Kurczij – Radical Candour Teaching and Learning Leeds Conference 2023 Timetable 2023 Workshop facilitator Kerry Kurczij Name of Workshop Radical Candour Who is it for All those working in education today who have an interest in improving working relationships and environments in the pursuit of helping learners achieve their best possible outcomes. Middle and senior leaders. Brief synopsis of workshop: This workshop will provide an interactive beginner’s guide to Kim Scott’s ‘radical’ method for achieving a genuine love for your work and strong, successful professional relationships with those you work with in schools as a result of establishing and requiring a feedback-first culture. What if we all cared about each other personally and all challenged each other directly? What if candour was cherished? What if manipulative insincerity, ruinous empathy and obnoxious aggression were banished from the teams we are part of and those we lead? What if ‘Radical Candour’ was the answer? Based on her own personal experience and success at Google, Apple and various startups, Scott’s method involves every colleague in every team in every position being kind and being clear – relentlessly, unflinchingly, ALWAYS. It takes work and it doesn’t happen overnight. It has the power to revolutionise the way we work together in education What you will get out of it: Time and space to reflect with guidance on their own current leadership practice and experience of leadership An understanding of the philosophy and key fundamentals of ‘Radical Candour’ Practical strategies for embedding, requiring and maintaining the method in their own teams and schools Profile of facilitator: Kerry has been a Teacher of English for twenty years; A level English language specialist; former Head of Department and now Director of Faculty with whole school responsibility for teaching and learning, and Head of Debating and Public Speaking at GSAL. Delivers fortnightly internal INSET on T&L (via digital bulletins and T&L Breakfasts) and has delivered external CPD for the Yorkshire Schools Alliance and in other local schools. Published in English and Media Centre’s eMagazine. She is currently working on her first educational publication for Bloomsbury.
